FOOD “4” THOUGHT:EXPLORING NUTRITION INFORMATION RESOURCES

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Agenda

8:30 -10:30 Nutrition Resources Extravaganza! Food labels Nutrition Resources Exercises

12:30-2:30 Part Two Searching for Nutrition Information Exercises When Food Choices Go Bad!

Familiar Quotes and Food Lore• “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”

• “All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”

• “Eat to live, or live to eat?”

• “If you’re afraid of butter, use cream.”

• “Better to pay the grocer than the doctor.”

The importance of nutrition

What do all those words mean?

Start with the Basics

Nutrition

Nutrition: the act or process of nourishing; the process by which organisms take in and utilize food material

Malnutrition

Malnutrition: the condition that occurs when your body does not get enough nutrients; starvation is a form of malnutrition

Defining Nutrition Terms

MedlinePlus Food and Nutrition

Florida Literacy Coalition, Inc. Staying Healthy: An Englis

h Learner’s Guide to Health Care and Health Living, Chapter 4

American Heart Association Dictionary of Nutrition

Putting the words together: How to read food labels

Exercise!

Food Labels Info from a pint

of ice cream Answer the

questions Score

General Nutrition Resources 4 Key Players

Let’s Start With These!

US Department of Agriculture (USDA) US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Centers for Disease Control and

Prevention (CDC) Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

But First a Word from our Sponsor: MedlinePlus.gov!

http://www.medlineplus.gov Health Topics > Health and Wellness >

Food and Nutrition Specific demographic groups Drugs & Supplements Videos & Cool Tools

Special Features of MedlinePlus

Multiple languages MedlinePlus the magazine Links to journal articles via PubMed Special topics such as eating disorders,

food allergies, and food safety

Hands On with the Big Four

Each group will explore an assigned site, confer with each, and report back to the class

Pick a spokesperson! USDA FDA CDC Eatright.org

U.S. Department of Agriculture– USDA

http://www.usda.gov Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services Dietary Guidelines Food Safety Recalls ChooseMyPlate.gov Nutrition.gov Center for Nutrition Policy and Prevention Agricultural Library -

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

Nutrition.gov

http://www.nutrition.gov

Site “within a site” From National

Agricultural Library Recipes

US Food and Drug Administration– FDA http://www.fda.gov/ Food, Food Labels Food safety, Recalls, Outbreaks

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – CDC

http://www.cdc.gov Healthy Living section has several topic

pages including: food safety, nutrition, and healthy weight,

overweight and obesity Other sections

Nutrition, Nutrition for Everyone, Food Service Guidelines

Special Features of CDC.gov

Links to Data and Statistics relevant to Nutrition

Current Features often feature nutrition-related topics; e.g., “Listeria Outbreak”

Vital signs Reducing Sodium in Children's Diets

Foodborne Outbreaks Reports

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

http://www.eatright.org/ The world’s largest

organization of food and nutrition professionals.

Vegetarian glossary of terms

Exercises

When Food Choices “Go Bad”

To Eat, or Not to Eat … That is the question!

Food Safety & Foodborne Illness Food Allergies Eating Disorders

Food Safety & Foodborne Illness FoodSafety.gov Partnership

http://www.foodsafety.gov Check Your Steps: Four Simple Steps to

Food Safety Clean, Separate, Cook, Chill

Recalls and Alerts CDC Food Safety Page MedlinePlus Health Topics Page

What’s Up with Food Allergies?

Resources for Food Allergies USDA Allergies

and Food Sensitivities MedlinePlus.gov

Latest Magazine issue covers Gluten (Spring, 2015)

Food Allergy Health Topic page CDC Food Allergies in Schools EatRight Allergies and Intolerances

Eating Disorders

Start with MedlinePlus Anorexia nervosa Bulimia nervosa Binge-eating Overweight/obesity

Weight of the Nation. HBO Documentary, 2012. Trailer

More Resources for Eating Disorders HHS Office on Women’s Health

www.womenshealth.gov

The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) www.nationaleatingdisorders.org

Beyond the Basics

Finding Statistics, Evidence and more…

Finding Research on Nutrition Topics

Searching PubMed MeSH terms related to Nutrition* Article type: Practice Guideline Subheading /diet therapy

Using SEQs to Find the Evidence Structured Evidence Queries (SEQs)

http://phpartners.org/hp2020/index.html Preformulated search strategies which

search the literature for research evidence related to Healthy People 2020 objectives

Developed by public health librarians working with subject matter experts

Food Safety, Nutrition and Weight Status, Diabetes 

Nutrition Evidence Library

From the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion

Nutrition Evidence Library http://www.nel.gov Systematic reviews to inform Federal

nutrition policy and programs Focus on the 2015 Dietary Guidelines

Finding Nutrition-Related Statistics

BRFSS (Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System) http://www.cdc.gov/brfss

NHANES (National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey http://www/cdc.gov/nchs.nhanes.htm Assessment of health and nutritional status of

adults and children The State of Obesity

http://stateofobesity.org/

Research on Specific Foods

Alliance for Potato Research & Education Almond Board of California Cherry Marketing Institute Egg Nutrition Center Mushroom Council National Peanut Board North American Olive Oil Association Cranberry Marketing Committee

Exercises Part Two

A Word about Print Resources Information sheets/pamphlets from gov’t

agencies MedlinePlus the magazine Special focus agencies

National Institute on Aging National Cancer Institute Other NIH Institutes

Recommended Readings/Viewings Kurtz-Rossi, S. et al. Staying Healthy: An English

Learner’s Guide to Health Care and Healthy Living. Florida Literacy Coalition, Inc., 2008. http://www.floridaliteracy.org/literacy_resources__teacher_tutor__health_literacy.html

USDA. Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010. U.S. Government Printing Office

http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/DGAs2010-PolicyDocument.htm

Weight of the Nation. Documentary by HBO, 2012. Trailer http://theweightofthenation.hbo.com/

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Class originally developed by NN/LM SCR Staff. This project has been funded in whole or in part with Federal funds from the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, under Contract No. HHS-N-276-2011-00009-C with the UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library.

Thank You!

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