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UC Davis Nutrition Department Publications & Programs

Nutrition Info Sheets: Information sheets created by Dr. Sheri Zidenberg-Cherr and staff that cover items of interest in the area of Nutrition such as Ephedra or St. John's wort.
Nutrition Perspectives: A bimonthly publication prepared by Dr. Sheri Zidenberg-Cherr and staff. This publication is designed to provide research-based information on ongoing nutrition and food-related programs.
Feeling Fine Online: Feeling Fine Online is a web site produced by Dr. Sheri Zidenberg-Cherr that contains new, research-based information made available by means of brief video presentations on such topics as "Health Benefits of Dietary Flavanols" with UCD Nutrition faculty member Dr. Carl Keen, and how to "Eat Smart, Play Hard" with UCD Nutrition faculty member Dr. Liz Applegate.
Nutrition Competencies and Grade Level Expectations: Nutrition Competencies and Grade Level Expectations is a document produced by Dr. Sheri Zidenberg-Cherr's research group in collaboration with the California Department of Education. The Competencies provides comprehensive and sequential nutrition goals for nutrition education for California's children, Pre-Kindergarten through Grade 12. More information on the document is available online in a recent article published in California Agriculture (Kirkpatric , N., Briggs, M., and S. Zidenberg-Cherr.  California teachers support the Nutrition Competencies-new nutrition instruction guidelines. California Agriculture, volume 61, number 1, pp. 41-46, 2007).
Maternal and Infant Nutrition Briefs: A research-based newsletter prepared by Lucia Kaiser, Ph.D., the University of California for professionals interested in maternal and infant nutrition.
UC Davis Human Lactation Center: The UC Davis Human Lactation Center provides a focal point for communication among researchers, clinicians, policy-makers and educators to assure that the latest research-based information is made available to those working with lactating women and their infants. The center aims also to foster communication and collaboration among faculty and other professionals interested in human lactation research.
EatFit.net: An interactive application created by Mical Shilts, Marcel Horwitz, and Dr. Marilyn Townsend intended to aid middle school students in personal dietary analysis and "guided goal setting".
CORET (Collaborative Obesity Research Evaluation Team) : CORET is global team of experts in obesity research whose goal is to establish research evaluation criteria and then use those to evaluate published obesity research so that scientists and policy makers might gain a deeper insight and better understanding of the most important current and relevant research on obesity. CORET is co-chaired by UC Davis Nutrition Department Professor Dr. Judith Stern.


Government
My Pyramid (USDA has released the MyPyramid food guidance system. The system provides many options to help Americans make healthy food choices and to be active every day)
University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR)
NUTRITION.GOV (a federal resource with access to government information on nutrition)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
Dietary Guidelines for Americans (at USDA)
Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition (CFSAN)
Food and Nutrition Information Center (at USDA)
Food and Nutrition Research Briefs (at USDA)
National Agriculture Library
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Institutes of Health
National Library of Medicine
NIH Facts about Nutritional Supplements
NIH Office of Extramural Research
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA)
  USDA Arkansas Children's Nutrition Research Center
  USDA Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center (BHNRC)
  USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion
  USDA Childrens Nutrition Research Center (CNRC)
  USDA Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center (GFHNRC)
  USDA Western Human Nutrition Research Center (WHNRC)
United States Department of Health and Human Services

Associations and Organizations
American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC)
American Cancer Society
American Diabetes Association
American Dietetic Association
American Heart Association
American Medical Association (AMA)
American Physiological Society
American Public Health Association
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)
American Society for Nutritional Sciences
American Society for Clinical Nutrition
Arthritis Foundation
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Federation of American Societies for Experimental Medicine (FASEB)
Institute of Food Technologists (IFT)
International Food Information Council (IFIC)
International Union of Nutritional Sciences
National Council Against Health Fraud
National Science Foundation
Research! America
University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Online Journals & References
American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
American Journal of Public Health
Archives of Internal Medicine
Annals of Internal Medicine
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology
British Medical Journal
Cell
Clinical Chemistry
Food Science & Technology Abstracts (FSTA), via SilverPlatter
Gastroenterology
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Journal of Immunology
Journal of Nutrition
Maternal and Infant Nutrition Briefs
Molecular Vision
Nutrition Action Health Letter
Nutrition Perspectives
Nutrition Research Reviews
Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter
UC Davis Electronic Journals A-Z
VERIS Online
Science News Online
e-Journals - A Directory of Electronic Journals

 
Miscellaneous Online Resources
Tufts University Health Sciences Library Internet Nutrition Resources
Tufts University Nutrition Navigator
Shape Up America
Index Medicus Journal Abbreviations
MeSH - Medical Subject Headings
Nextwave
University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources

Databases  
ExPASy Molecular Biology Server
Boehringer Mannheim's Biochemical Pathways

PubMed
UCD Library VPN Service for access to library resources while off campus
Protein Data Bank (Brookhaven National Laboratory)
National Center for Biotechnology Information
ISI Web of Science
Reuters Health Information Services
USDA Nutrient Database
USDA-NCC Carotenoid Database for U.S. Foods
USDA-Iowa State University Database on the Isoflavone Content of Foods
USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference (for downloading)
Nutrient Analysis Tool (University of Illinois)
NIH Office of Dietary Supplements Database



 


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