Nutrition
A research guide: reference, articles, & web sites
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How to Find Books in the ODU Library and Online:
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Reference
items available in print are located in the Library’s Reference collection,
behind the Reference Desk on the top floor
of Spangler. Reference items available
online are accompanied by links.
See also these related research guides: Biology, and
Chemistry
Almanacs and Atlases
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The Penguin Atlas
of Food. R 664 M629p, 2003
Data Collections & Indexes
Dietary Supplements
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Dietary
Supplements Fact Sheets (Council for Responsible Nutrition) www.crnusa.org/about_gen.html
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The Merck Index:
An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals - Includes plant &
herbal medicines, nutraceuticals, supplements, food additives, and more. R
615.103 M537i
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PDR for
Nonprescription Drugs, Dietary Supplements, and Herbs. R 615.103 M537i and CD-ROM
Nutrients
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The Merck Index:
An Encylopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals - Includes plant and herbal medicines,
nutraceuticals, supplements, food additives, and more. R 615.103 M537i
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Natural Standard Herb & Supplement Database http://www.ana-jana.org/herbs.cfm
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Nutrient Data
Laboratory (USDA) - Breakdown of nutrients in food. http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/index.html
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Nutrition Data -
Breakdown of nutrients in food. http://www.nutritiondata.com
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Nutritional
Metabolomics Database http://nugowiki.org/index.php/Nutritional_Metabolomics_Database
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USDA Nutrient Data
Laboratory: Food Composition http://grande.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=4&tax_level=2&tax_subject=279&topic_id=1387
Plants and Herbs
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Christopher
Hobbs’ Herbal Prescriber Database http://christopherhobbs.com/database/?herbs&hterm=S
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GRIN Taxonomy for
Plants (USDA) - Germplasm Resources Information Network http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxgenform.pl
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Herbal e-Library
(American Herbal Products Association) http://www.ahpa.org/Default.aspx?tabid=72
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HerbMed
(Alternative Medicine Foundation) http://www.herbmed.org
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The Merck Index:
An Encylopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals - Includes plant and herbal medicines, nutraceuticals,
supplements, food additives, and more. R 615.103 M537i
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PDR for
Nonprescription Drugs, Dietary Supplements, and Herbs. R 615.103 M537i and CD-ROM
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TROPICOS (
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USDA
Plants Database - Vascular plants,
mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens. http://plants.usda.gov
Dictionaries
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Dorland’s
Illustrated Medical Dictionary. R 610.3 D711, 2000
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Glossary from Micronutrient
Information Center Glossary (Linus Pauling Institute) http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/glossary.html
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Oxford Reference Dictionaries,
available at Oxford
Reference Online: Medicine
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A Dictionary of
Food and Nutrition
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A Dictionary of
Public Health
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Stedman’s Medical
Dictionary. R 610.3 S812m, 2000 - available online through Health
Source (Click on “Medical Dictionary”)
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Terminology in
Herbal Literature (American Botanical Corn)
http://abc.herbalgram.org/site/PageServer?pagename=Terminology
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USA.gov: Health
and Nutrition http://www.usa.gov/Citizen/Topics/Health.shtml
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Advanced
Nutrition (CRC Press). R 612.39 B486a, 1998
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Cambridge Handbook
of Psychology, Health, and Medicine. R 616.0019 C1443
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Diet and Nutrition Sourcebook. R 613.2
D5665n, 2006
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Encyclopedia of
Human Development. R 155.03 E195h, 2006 ,3 vols.
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Encyclopedia of
Nutrition and Good Health R 613.2 R775e
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Gale Encyclopedia
of Diets: A Guide to Health and Nutrition, 2008, 2 vols. - online in
Gale
Virtual Reference Library
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Gale Encyclopedia
of Mental Health, 2008, 2 vols. - online in Gale
Virtual Reference Library
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MedlinePlus
Medical Encyclopedia http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html
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World of Health.
R 610 W89367h
Guides and Sourcebooks (Singular Focus)
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Cambridge World
History of Food. R 641.3009 C1446w, 2000 , 2 vols.
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Food Plants of
the World - includes nutritional values. R 581.632 V389f, 2005
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Guidebook to
Protein Toxins and their Use in Cell Biology. R 615.9 G946, 1997
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Harvard Guide to
Women’s Health. R 616.0082 C1974h
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Health Reference
Series by Omnigraphics - Several sourcebooks for researching diseases,
disabilities, and injuries. Search in the ODU Library catalog.
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Use an online research database to
find articles: ·
How to access the databases below: ·
Database guides are available: On the library’s Research
Help page or in print by the Library |
Recommended Databases
A. Key
Databases in Nutrition
Contains peer-reviewed
journal coverage from more than 3,400 scholarly publications. Covers many academic areas of study, including nutrition and nutrition
counseling. Updated daily.
Provides
access to articles, reports, proceedings, and
association and consumer newsletters from the perspectives
of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches to health care and wellness
CINAHL
(Nursing & Allied Health)
Indexes research articles, health care books, nursing
dissertations, selected conference proceedings, standards of practice,
educational software, audiovisuals, and book chapters in nursing, biomedicine,
health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer
health, and 17 allied health disciplines
Electronic
Journal Center
Presents over 4300 research journals, covering numerous subject areas. Coverage
includes general medicine, immunology, neurology, nutrition and metabolism,
pediatrics, physiology and anatomy, public health and other areas in the health
sciences.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
Indexes
articles in scholarly journals from medical disciplines, particularly nursing
and allied health, and provides full-text entries from Stedman's Medical
Dictionary.
HerbMed® (http://www.herbmed.org)
From
the Alternative Medicine Foundation. Provides
hyperlinked access to the scientific data underlying the use of herbs for
health from PubMed. Includes common, scientific, and family names, evidence for
efficacy, evidence of activity, safety data, formulas/blends, images, and other
information.
Notes: Public-access version covers only 45 herbs. If an article is not
available in PubMed, try Medline.
International
Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS)
(http://dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov/Health_Information/IBIDS.aspx)
Public-access database from National Institutes of Health and the
Office of Dietary Supplements. Provides
access to citations and abstracts from published, international, scientific
literature on dietary supplements.
From
the National Library of Medicine. Covers research journal articles in the
clinical sciences in Some “Limit search results” features: Language, year,
publication type (e.g., article, clinical trial), age group, animal, human,
gender, and review articles.
Natural & Alternative Treatments
Provides access to information on the
safety- and efficacy-evidence regarding natural products, organized by
substance and by medical condition. For each condition, herb and supplement, it
suggests the direct, informed questions necessary to elicit potential
drug/herb/supplement interactions.
PubMed
is public-accessible health database service of the National Library of
Medicine that includes over 15 million citations for biomedical articles back
to the 1950s. Citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals.
PubMed includes links to many sites providing full-text articles and other
related resources. Note: If an article is not available in PubMed full-text, try Medline.
Science Citation Index Expanded (ISI Web of Science)
Citations only. Indexes articles in
peer-reviewed journals—complete bibliographic data, searchable author
abstracts, and cited references. Coverage: 1980 to the present. Note: Not
intended as a substitute for a comprehensive subject database such as Medline,
which comprehensively
indexes journal articles, books, conference proceedings, and other documents.
B. Additional
Science Databases
AGRICOLA
From the
Biological
Abstracts/BIOSIS Previews
Includes
from most disciplines in the life sciences scholarly journal articles,
meetings, review articles, books, monographs, and post-1998 patent information.
Coverage: 1980-. Some Limit features: Language; mo./yr; review article;
article, meeting.
Covers
research in environmental sciences. Good source for policy information on
agriculture and the environment. Coverage: 1950s to the present.
Indexes articles covering global warming, green building,
pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and related
topics.
History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Citations only. Focuses on the history of science, technology, and medicine, and
their influence on culture. Indexes journal articles, conference proceedings,
books, book reviews, and dissertations in all scientific disciplines and
related fields. Coverage: 1975-.
TOXNET:
Toxicology Data Network
From
the
C. More
Useful Databases
Offers
news and legal information. Covers
newspapers, magazines, wire services, court decisions, and law. Updated daily.
PAIS International
Public
Affairs Information Service International indexes literature of all areas of public affairs, including nutrition, public
health administration, and health care.
Coverage
includes articles in sports nutrition, physical
fitness, exercise, tai chi, and related areas.
Finding
Periodicals
How Do You Find a Periodical in this
Library?
Some periodicals in health and nutrition available in
the ODU Library:
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Journal of Health
& Physical Education
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Journal of
Nutrition Education
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Health
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Nutrition Reviews
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Today’s Health
How Do You Find a
Periodical available Online?
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Use Electronic Journal
Finder to determine if a specific journal is available online in a
database.
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Or browse for
your journal of interest in the Library’s Electronic Journal Center.
Select Health Sciences & Medicine, then Nutrition and Metabolism.
Includes over 10 journals online.
Some
key nutrition journals available online:
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The
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (AJCN) www.ajcn.org
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European
Journal of Clinical Nutrition (EJCN) www.nature.com/ejcn/index.html
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International
Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity (IJBNPA) www.ijbnpa.org
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Journal
of the American College of Nutrition (JACN) www.jacn.org
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Journal
of the American Nutraceutical Association (JANA) www.ana-jana.org/jana_journal.cfm
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Journal
of the International Society of Sports Nutrition (JISSN) www.jissn.com
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The
Journal of Nutrition (JN) http://jn.nutrition.org
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Nutrition
Journal www.nutritionj.com
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Listed below
are web sites that may be of particular use to you in your information
search. Minimum recommended criteria for
evaluating websites:
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Accuracy
of the information ·
Authority
of the person or group responsible for the information ·
When
the information was created and last updated For more information: View Evaluating
Internet Sources & Search Tools from the Internet Search page. |
Web Sites—A Selection
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American
Society for Nutrition http://www.nutrition.org
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American Dietetic
Association http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/index.html
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Council for
Responsible Nutrition (CRN) http://www.crnusa.org
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International and
American Association of Clinical Nutritionists (IAACN) http://www.iaacn.org
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International
Society of Nutrigenetics/Nutrigenomics (ISNN) http://www.isnn.info
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School
Nutrition Association http://www.schoolnutrition.org
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Society for
the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition http://www.nutritionalanthro.org
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Society for
Nutrition Education (SNE) http://www.sne.org
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American
Association of Integrative Medicine (AAIM) http://www.aaimedicine.com
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American
Association of Oriental Medicine (AAOM) http://www.aaaomonline.org/
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American
Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) http://www.ahpa.org/Default.aspx?tabid=74
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American
Herbalists Guild (
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Cabiblog http://cabiblog.typepad.com/hand_picked
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Natural Standard
Blog http://blog.naturalstandard.com
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NuGO Weblog http://www.nugo.org/weblog
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CDC Nutrition
Topics http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpa/nutrition/index.htm
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Center for
Science in the Public Interest http://www.cspinet.org
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Danone Institute:
Nutrition for Health http://www.danoneinstitute.org
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FDA Center for
Food Safety and Applied Nutrition http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html
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Food and
Nutrition Information Center (USDA NAL) http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/topics_a-z.shtml
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Harvard School of
Public Health: The Nutrition Source--Knowledge for Healthy Eating http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource
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Healthfinder http://www.healthfinder.gov/Scripts/SearchContext.asp?topic=591
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Healthier Us http://www.healthierus.gov/nutrition.html
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International
Food Information Council Foundation: Nutrition Information & Food Safety http://ific.org/index.cfm
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Linus Pauling
Institute: Micronutrient Information Center http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter
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Martindale’s The
“Virtual” Nutrition Center http://www.martindalecenter.com/Nutrition.html
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Mayo Clinic http://www.mayoclinic.com
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NIT Nutrition http://health.nih.gov/result.asp/474
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Nutrition.gov http://www.nutition.gov
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Nutrition
Information and Resource Center (Penn State U) http://nirc.cas.psu.edu/index.cfm
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Office of Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion http://odphp.osophs.dhhs.gov
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Patient Education
Materials: Nutrition and Diet (OSU Medical Center) http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/patientcare/patient%5Feducation/index.cfm?maincontent=maincategory.cfm&categoryID=74.0
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USDA Food and
Nutrition Information Center http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=4&tax_level=1
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WHO Nutrition http://www.who.int/nutrition/en
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About Herbs,
Botanicals, & Other Products (Sloan-Kettering) http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/11570.cfm
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American
Institute for Cancer Research: Diet & Cancer http://www.aicr.org/site/PageServer?pagename=dc_home
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Cancer Nutrition
Info http://cni.axialwebhosting.com/main.cfm?id=1
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EFA Education:
Essential Fatty Acids http://efaeducation.nih.gov
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Environmental
Working group: Health/Toxics http://www.ewg.org/health
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FDA Library of
Chemistry Information http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/chemist.html
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Center for
Nutrition Policy and Promotion (USDA) http://www.cnpp.usda.gov
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Center for
Science in the Public Interest: Nutrition Policy http://www.cspinet.org/nutritionpolicy/index.html
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Government/Regulatory
Links http://www.ahpa.org/Default.aspx?tabid=65#government
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International
Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) http://www.ifpri.org/
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Nutrition in
Complementary Care: Nutritional Genomics
http://www.complementarynutrition.org/site.cfm?page=19
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International
Society of Nutrigenetics/Nutrigenomics (ISNN) http://www.isnn.info
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European
Nutrigenomics Organisation http://www.nugo.org/everyone
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Nutrigenomics
Information Portal http://nugowiki.org/index.php/Nutritional_Metabolomics_Database
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European
Nutrigenomics Organisation http://www.nugo.org/everyone
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National
Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Disorders (NIDDK) http://www2.niddk.nih.gov
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NIH Special
Interest Groups http://www.nih.gov/sigs/sigs.html
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EFA Education: Food
Choices http://efaeducation.nih.gov/sig/food.html
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Food Allergy and
Anaphylaxis Network http://www.foodallergy.org
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National Obesity
Initiative (NHLBI) http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/about/oei
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Oncology
Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group www.oncologynutrition.org
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Organic Facts
(Organic Trade Association) http://www.ota.com/organic.html
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Patient Education
Materials: Nutrition and Diet (OSU Medical Center) http://medicalcenter.osu.edu/patientcare/patient%5Feducation/index.cfm?maincontent=maincategory.cfm&categoryID=74.0
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World Health
Organization:
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Countries http://www.who.int/countries/en
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Data and Statistics
http://www.who.int/research/en
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World Health
Report (current) http://www.who.int/whr/en/index.html
For
More Sites
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Arbor Nutrition
Guide http://www.arborcom.com
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BUBL LINK:
Nutrition http://bubl.ac.uk/link/n/nutrition.htm
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Food Science
Central http://www.functionalfoods.nu/dyndefaultframe.asp
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ISNN Links
(genetics, nutrigenomics) http://www.isnn.info/links.html
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Nutritional
Sciences Journals http://www.medbioworld.com/MedBioWorld/ResourceLinks.aspx?type=Publications&&category=Journals&&concept=Nutritional%20Sciences
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Traditional Uses
of Herbs http://www.ahpa.org/Default.aspx?tabid=74
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