Food and Nutrition Databases
(see also
Health Sciences - Articles,
Health Sciences - Reference Books, and
Nursing and Allied Health
[Indexes]
[Online Books]
- Indexes to Journals and Books:
- CINAHL
Plus with Full Text (Ebsco)
 
- Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature
provides indexing for 3,024 journals from the fields of nursing, biomedicine, health
sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health, and
17 other allied health disciplines, with indexing back to 1937, as well as the full text
337 of journals (some going back to 1937) plus legal cases, clinical innovations,
critical paths, drug records, research instruments, and clinical trials.
Includes Pre-CINAHL, with the newest journal articles that are in the process of being indexed, and
CINAHL Select, with the full text of an additional 170 journals.
Also indexes health care books, nursing dissertations, selected conference proceedings,
standards of practice, educational software, audiovisuals, and more. Includes
searchable cited references for more than 1,160 journals.
- LIUCat
on the Web:
- The online public access catalog of Long Island University's
six campuses. This can be searched from any computer. No password is needed.
- Online Encyclopedias and Books:
Diet and Nutrition -
Food and Cooking -
Beverages
- Diet and Nutrition:
- Gale
Encyclopedia of Diets: A Guide to Health and Nutrition (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Covers topics such as dieting and popular diets, dietary concerns,
nutritional basics, and the effects of a person's dietary choices on one's health.
Topics are organized around the development and history of a diet, its basic
principles, any key figures that influence the trend, and any public or regulatory
concerns associated with the practice. Provides information across all age groups
from infants to the elderly.
- Nutrition
and Well-Being A to Z
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- ebrary (ebrary)
- Currently
offers over 25,000 full-text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports, and other authoritative documents from more
than 180 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers. The collections are particularly strong in
business, economics, education, computers, technology, science, medicine, history,
language, literature, humanities, politics, and social sciences. Publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies,
Random House, Penguin Classics, Taylor
& Francis, Yale University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Greenwood, and more
(more information).
- Food and Cooking:
- Cambridge
World History of Food (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Covers the full spectrum of foods that have been hunted, gathered,
cultivated, and domesticated from prehistoric times to the present, offering a geographical
perspective on the history and culture of food and drink. Includes nutritional makeup,
prejudices, fads, taboos, policy issues, toxins, additives, labeling, entitlements, impact
on cultures & demography, brief histories of over 1000 plant foods, and much more.
- Encyclopedia
of Food and Culture (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Presents 600 articles on food and its place in human
culture and society, covering everything from agronomy to zucchini. Students,
academics, and general researchers will find entries on everything from food
preparation, distribution, and storage to holidays and festivals, nutrition and
health, and cultures and cuisines. Entries range from 250 to 10,000 words
each and are supplemented by 400 photographs and illustrations, sidebars,
recipes, menus, timelines, and a comprehensive index.
- Who's
Buying at Restaurants and Carry-Outs (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Examines how much Americans spend on eating out by the demographics
such as: age, income, high-income households, household type, race and Hispanic origin,
region of residence, and education. Also presents who-are-the-best-customers analyses of
the data, showing the demographics of spending at a glance.
- Who's
Buying Groceries (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Examines how much Americans spend on food at grocery and convenience
stores by demographics such as: age, income, high-income households, household type,
race and Hispanic origin, region of residence, and education.
- Beverages:
- Who's
Buying Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic Beverages (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Examines how much Americans spend on drinks by demographics
such as: age, income, high-income households, household type, race and Hispanic origin,
region of residence, and education. Also presents who-are-the-best-customers analyses of the
data, showing the demographics of spending at a glance.
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
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