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Biology:
Nutrition and Health

This guide is intended as a research tool to help you locate background information, books, articles, and internet/web links on a variety of nutrition & health topics.

Background Information Sources

Available in the library's reference area:

Nutritional Biochemistry	REF QP141 .B853 1999
Encyclopedia of Women's Health	REF RA778 .E5825 2004
ADA Complete Food and Nutrition Guide	REF RA784 .D89 2002
Nutrition Almanac	REF RA784 .N837 2002
Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z (2 volumes)	REF RA784 .N838 2004
Mayo Clinic Family Health Book	REF RC81 .M473 2003
Krause's Food, Nutrition, & Diet Therapy	REF RM216 .M285 2004
A Guide to Understanding Dietary Supplements	REF RM258.5 .T354 2003
The Tufts University Guide to Total Nutrition	REF TX353 .G4 1996
Controversies in Food and Nutrition	REF TX355.5 .G65 2002

Books

Search the library catalog for books on your subject using words or word combinations below, or visit the library’s 2nd floor and browse call numbers RA784 (Nutrition), RC (Internal Medicine, RM200-259 (Diet Therapy), QP (Physiology), and TX (Home Economics).

nutrition
nutritional
health

vitamins
supplements
digestion

diet
dietary
food

fat
carbohydrate
eating

metabolism
physiology
exercise

Newspaper, Magazine, and Academic Journal Articles

Expanded Academic ASAP/InfoTrac: full-text journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
Health Reference Center-Academic: full-text articles on health topics.
AccessScience: gateway to full-text articles and research updates in all areas of science.
LexisNexis: large database of current and archived newspaper articles.

Internet Resources

Several internet resources have been selected below. Additional links are available from Web Resources page; follow link for Biology/Science.