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Nutrition

This research guide from DVC Library will help you find books, textbooks, articles, journals, videos, and websites on nutrition.

Books and eBooks - Nutrition

Nutrition for Healthy Living
Practical Applications in Sports Nutrition
Wardlaw's Perspectives in Nutrition
The Profession of Dietetics: A Team Approach
Nutrition Through the Life Cycle
Nutrition Now
Food and Culture
Understanding Nutrition
Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease
Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health
Doing Nutrition Differently
The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do To Replace Them
Nutritionism: The Science and Politics of Dietary Advice
The Nature of Nutrition: A Unifying Framework from Animal Adaptation to Human Obesity - eBook
Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
Nancy Clark's Sports Nutrition Guidebook-5th Edition
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health - eBook
American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide

Articles - Nutrition

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco)

This database has full-text academic articles in almost every subject, including quite a few peer-reviewed and scholarly journals. A good choice for almost any topic.

Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition (Ebsco)

This database provides nearly 550 scholarly full text journals focusing on many medical disciplines. Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition also features the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which covers 1,300 generic drug patient education sheets with more than 4,700 brand names.

PubMed

PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine that includes over 15 million citations from MEDLINE and other life sciences journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.

Health Source: Consumer Edition (Ebsco)

This database provides easy-to-read information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general health. Health Source: Consumer Edition provides access to nearly 80 full text, consumer health magazines.

Credo Reference Academic Core (Infobase)

Includes reference encyclopedias and handbooks, which feature easy-to-read overviews and background information on thousands of topics. Credo also features videos, illustrations, photographs, visual aids, and maps.

Journals - Nutrition

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

Abstracts only 1993 - present

Journal of Nutritional Science

Full-text available 2015-present

International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition

Publishes international research on food science and nutrition, including bioavailability of nutrients, dietary requirements and consumer science. Peer reviewed, open access.

Frontiers in Nutrition

No subject pertains more to human life than nutrition. The aim of Frontiers in Nutrition is to integrate major scientific disciplines in this vast field in order to address the most relevant and pertinent questions and developments. Peer reviewed, open access.

Websites - Nutrition

Videos - Nutrition

Eat Right TV - YouTube

Videos on healthy eating and cooking created by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Nutrition - Films on Demand

Watch award-winning documentaries and educational programs about nutrition through the life cycle, nutritional disorders, and more.

The Bigger Picture

The Bigger Picture aims to inspire young people to join the conversation about Type 2 diabetes and work to change the systems that contribute to its spread. Videos feature young people from the Bay Area.

ChooseMyPlate.gov - Videos

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