Internet Resources for Nutrition

Welcome to the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University Libraries' Internet Resources for Nutrition Page. We hope you will find this resource useful. You may also wish to visit the CSB/SJU Nutrition Department Web Site and their Related Nutrition Links.

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Nutrition Resources on the Internet

  • American Dietetic Association
  • American Society for Nutrition
  • Dietetics Online, "a world-wide networking organization of nutrition and dietetic professionals"
  • American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
  • The Tufts University Nutrition Navigator, a rating guide to nutrition websites, is "designed to help you sort through the large volume of nutrition information on the Internet and find accurate, useful nutrition information you can trust."
  • Yahoo: Nutrition
  • Food and Nutrition Information Center from the National Agriculture Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture. This web site is searchable. Includes the Food Guide Pyramid, Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and Release 12 of the USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference.
  • From the Federal Citizen Information Center catalog, pamphlets of helpful information on food and nutrition that can be ordered from the government or accessed on the web.
  • Food Safety and Nutrition Information from the International Food Information Council Foundation
  • The U.S. Food & Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition (US FDA/CFSAN). Food Composition Data can also be found at this web site.
  • The Nutrition Analysis Tool (NAT) from the University of Illinois - Urbana/Champaign allows anyone to analyze the nutritional value of the foods they eat, based on their age and gender.
  • The Food Resource from Oregon State University provides a large collection of jpeg images of foods, other foods references, and links to related documents, and an attempt to link as much food-related information as possible.
  • The Virtual Nutrition Center provides links to many different nutrition related references. Some of the topics include nutrition, courses and education resources, and graduate and undergraduate nutrition and food science related courses. There are also links to other virtual centers including medical, pharmacy, veterinary, nursing, public health, allied health and dental centers.
  • NOAH: Nutrition (New York Online Access to Health)
  • Arbor Nutrition Guide, a "comprehensive and annotated catalogue of nutrition on the Internet." Includes a search page as well as classified listings of resources for applied nutrition and food, and links to university and organization home pages.
  • The Blonz Guide: Nutrition, Food & Health Resources is an attempt by a nutrition scientist/journalist to "sort out the great resources from the worthless cyberjunk" in the fields of nutrition, food science and health. Included here are pages of links to resources, associations, online newspapers and 'zines, discussion groups, government resources, companies, nutrient analysis, and more.
  • Nutrition and Food, a web site by Jean Fremont at Simon Fraser University, BC.
  • The Vegetarian Resource Group (VRG) is a non-profit organization "dedicated to educating the public on vegetarianism and the interrelated issues of health, nutrition, ecology, ethics, and world hunger." It offers back issues of the Vegetarian Journal, organized by subject and issue, as well as other resources.
  • The fast food from 15 restaurant chains can be analyzed using the Food Finder, a web site based on a book by the Minnesota Attorney General's Office.
  • Mimi's Cyber Kitchen, "everything that is currently available [on the web] in the way of food-related links . . . from recipes to information about how to do things, from instructions on growing your own produce to the medicinal values of certain foods."
  • National Council Against Health Fraud (NCAHF) Home Page. Documented information about food and nutrition quackery, court proceedings, fraudulent practices and practitioners.

Some General Medical/Health Resources on the Internet

(Many additional resources can be found on the CSB/SJU Libraries' Quick Reference: Health and Medicine and Selected Resources for Nursing pages.)

Indexes and Journals

The primary indexing source for journals in the field is MEDLINE, the database of the National Library of Medicine, which can be searched online for free at the NLM's PubMed web site. PubMed offers searching of materials published from 1950 to the present. Other routes to MEDLINE include Medscape and Healthgate.

The Nutrition and Food Sciences Database covers human nutrition, food science/food technology, and the interactions between diet and health. It covers the whole food chain from primary production of food species, both plant and animal, to the dietary effects of food.

Other available indexes and databases for medicine and allied health include:

  • Health Sciences: A SAGE Full-Text Collection includes about 25 journals.
  • WebMedLit "scans the web each night for updates to medical journals," then provides subject access and direct links to abstracts and/or full text articles in 23+ medical journals and PR Newswire, primarily dealing with clinical topics or human epidemiology. Covers only the last six weeks.
  • Current Contents is a way to find out what has been published as recently as a few days ago. Citations are added to this database weekly and found by journal name or via keyword searches of journals' tables of contents. 
  • Web of Science provides access to large databases of citations and abstracts and lets you follow citations to identify both works cited ("parent" works) and later citing works ("child" works). You can also search them by subject. Extensive help files are available.. 
  • IBIDS comes from the NIH's Office of Dietary Supplements and the USDA's NALFNIC. The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS)'s keyword-searchable database, with coverage back to 1986, "contains bibliographic records, including abstracts, published in international scientific journals on the topic of dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, herbal and botanical supplements." Currently comprised of citations from MEDLINE, AGRICOLA and the FAO's AGRIS International, other sources will be added in the future.
  • The Combined Health Information Database, a joint project of the NIH and the CDC, contains sixteen separate databases that can be searched individually or at once, using either a "simple" or a "detailed" search. The databases range from AIDS Education and Alzheimers Disease to Cancer Prevention and Weight Control.
  • Also from the NIH is a subset of Medline, the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM), which indexes publications in all areas of alternative medicine, traditional as well as Western, 1996 to the present, from the Medline database.
  • Our Nursing Abstracts and Indexes list includes some other indexes that might be useful.

These indexes cite articles published in thousands of journals, both online and print. Check the online Journal Finder to see which journals are available here. Use Interlibrary Loan for those we don't have, or, to see which may be freely available on the Internet, check the following sites:

  • New Jour, the Internet list for new journals and newsletters available on the Internet, has an up-to-date archival list of titles.
  • e journals.org, part of the World Wide Web Virtual Library, is searchable, with categorized lists of titles.

Or browse this short list of nutrition-related titles:

Other Useful Sites

For assistance in accessing any of the information resources above or the World Wide Web in general, please contact Peggy Roske, librarian liaison to the Nutrition Department, (proske@csbsju.edu; phone 363-5195), or any member of the Library Reference Staff. You can reach us by phone at 363-5610 (CSB) or 363-2125 (SJU) or through e-mail addressed to us individually. Don't hesitate to ask for assistance!

 
     

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Last updated: May 11, 2006. Links checked: March 15, 2006.