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Databases


Health & Wellness Resource Center offers health information from academic journals, magazines, and newspapers. You can select “Browse Topics” near the top of the main page to select a specific subject.

Consumer Health Complete

A great starting point for basic health information. You can also read popular health magazines.

Search for information in hundreds of reference books. You can download chapters into your Google Drive. 


Find newspaper articles from all over the world.

 
Offers information on hot topics and national controversies, such as organic food and vegetarianism. This database features viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites.

Websites

Nutrition Facts

Watch videos and find information on nutrition-related topics.

Harvard TH Chan School of Nutrition’s “Nutrition Source”

Provides evidence-based information on diet and nutrition. Accepts no advertising or commercial sponsorship, nor does it endorse any products. Faculty at the Harvard Department of Nutrition review all content before it is posted on the site.

Academy of Nutrition
The world’s largest organization of food and nutrition professionals.

The National Institutes of Health’s web site for patients, their families and friends.

Another site that offers credible and timely health information.

WebMD website

Offers health information that is timely and credible. 

Google Advanced Search
Use Google Advanced Search to enter in specific search phrases and to narrow down your search results.