Adelaide High School Intranet


~ Nutrition ~

 

This PATHFINDER is a guide to print and non-print resources within and beyond the Adelaide High School Resource Centre. 

This Pathfinder was created in 2002

SUBJECT HEADINGS BROWSE THE SHELVES

Nutrition

Adolescents - Nutrition

Food habits

Children - Nutrition

Food

Food additives

Food - analysis

Food Industry

Advertising - food

613    promotion of health

641    food and drink

REFERENCE COLLECTION INTRANET
R030 ENC Encyclopedia Britannica
R030 WOR World Book Encyclopedia
R032 GRO Grolier Academic Encyclopedia

RT 612.6 RID  Managing life

R610.3 ENC  Encyclopedia of Family Health

R641.3003 DAV  The Penguin Companion to Food 

 
VERTICAL FILES VIDEOS
 

VC HEc - Home Economics

VC B     - Biology

VC Sc    - Science

NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES OTHER
Online newspapers & magazines
Check Newstext folder on school  network
 
INTERNET

Ask the dietician

Question and answer format with a large number of topics, including fast foods, alcohol, anorexia, cancer, food labels, overweight and vitamins.

http://www.dietitian.com/

 

Austin nutritional research

General links on health and nutrition e.g. information on diet and cancer. Time needs to be spent searching.

http://www.realtime.net/anr/

 

British Nutrition Foundation

The British Nutrition Foundation promotes health through the impartial interpretation and food education via scientifically based nutritional knowledge and advice, eg. diet.

http://www.nutrition.org.uk/

 

Child Nutrition and Health Campaign

The American Dietetic Association has established this page to provide links to information about children's nutrition. Emphasis is placed on the importance of a good breakfast, exercise and the importance of adult role models.

http://www.eatright.org/pr/child.html

 

Food and Nutrition Information Center

This US Department of Agriculture site has information about food safety, dietary supplements, food composition, dietary guidelines and the food guide pyramid.

http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/

 

Health and nutrition

Dairy Corporation site contains fact sheets on health and nutrition. The site also has classroom activities and facts on dairy foods.

http://www.dairycorp.com.au/health/index.htm

 

Kids food

Nutrition site for primary students which contains food pyramid, good foods to eat and links to other nutrition sites. There are resources for teachers.

http://www.kidfood.org/

 

Nutrition and food

Home Economics Institute of Australia has produced an online database of Web -sites on nutrition and food. The listings are arranged according to primary school, junior high school and senior high school.

http://www.pa.ash.org.au/tefa/heia/

 

Nutrition explorations

This site aims to educate about nutritious foods and a healthy diet. It has ideas and activities for teachers, school canteen managers and parents. A part of the site is aimed at students and has games, quizzes, recipes and further links.

http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/

 

Nutrition

This comprehensive site from the US government has food facts, food safety information, life-cycle issues, health management ( including education), statistics, fact sheets and research reports.

http://www.nutrition.gov/

  

Vitamins and minerals

The Gander Academy has an annotated hotlist of sites related to health, nutrition and fitness. The sites are arranged according to general resources, meals and nutrition, fitness, vitamins and minerals, the human body and teacher resources.

http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/health.htm#Minerals

 

You are what you eat: a guide for good nutrition

This site includes a nutritional profile generator for personal information, food database, information about labels, eating out, dieting, and exercise. The nutrients section has information about vitamins and minerals.

http://library.thinkquest.org/11163/gather/


Adelaide High School © 2000, revised 2001, 2002, 2003, revised 2004, revised 2008
Last updated 17 June, 2008