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 PATHFINDERS
Methuen High School Media Center--Methuen, MA
Pathfinders are pages that offer students selected resources in a variety of media 
on a topic they are researching. They provide a headstart for students as they
begin their research project.

Nutrition

To find books in the MHS Media Center, open Spectrum (the electronic card catalog) located on the student desktop. Type in the topic you want to search, nutrition, diet, recipes, cookbook, cookery, heart disease, etc.

 Some titles we have are:

363.8
MOR		 Morris, Neil. Do You Know What's in Your Food? Chicago, IL: Heinemann, 2006.
612.3
SHR		 Shryer, Donna. Body Fuel: A Guide to Good Nutrition. New York: Marshall Cavendish, 2008.
613.2
HAR		 Hark Lisa and Deen, Darwin. Nutrition for Life.  London: DK, 2006.
613.2
SMO		 Smolin, Lori A. and Grosvenor, Mary B.  Basic Nutrition.  Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2005.
REF
612.3
NAV		 Navarra, Tova. The Encyclopedia of Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements.  New York: Facts on File, 2004.
REF
613
LEV		 Levchuck, Caroline M. and Drohan, Michele Ingber. Healthy Living (3 vols.). Detroit: UXL, 2000.

SELECTED WEB SITES

American Heart Association
 http://www.heart.org
Click on Healthy Lifestyle to find info on diet & nutrition, including dietary recommendations, nutrition facts, recommended calories and recipes with info on foods from all the food groups.

National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (National Institutes of Health)
 http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/index.htm
Information on heart diseases and conditions and links to healthy recipe collections.

National Agricultural Library -- Food and Nutrition Information Center
 http://fnic.nal.usda.gov/nal_display/index.php?info_center=4&tax_level=1&tax_subject=242
Reliable information on nutrition, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety for consumers.

HealthierUS.gov
 http://www.healthierus.gov/nutrition.html
Links to eating healthier, sites with healthy recipes..

CDC-- Fruits and Veggies
 http://www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/index.html
Healthy recipes, including all the nutrition facts.

Mayo Clinic -- Healthy Recipes Center
 http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/healthy-recipes/RE99999
Hundreds of healthy recipes based on various ingredients, including complete nutritional information. Recipe makeovers and ingredient substitutions.

American Dietetic Association -- Food and Nutrition
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/nutrition.html
Nutrition info, including nutrition fact sheets.

World's Healthiest Foods
 http://whfoods.org/
Gives complete nutrition information on the world's healthiest foods.

Medline Plus (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html
Medical encyclopedia with info on heart disease and diet.

 Cooking Light
 http://www.cookinglight.com/cooking/
Database of recipes from Cooking Light Magazine, including nutritional information.

Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2005
http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2005/document/

CalorieLab
 http://calorielab.com/index.html
Nutrition facts for various foods, restaurant items and packaged items.

ONLINE RESOURCES

Infotrac -- contains databases of magazine articles, a biography resource, and health and business references.  Try Reference Center Gold, Expanded Academic ASAP, and Biography Resource Center.

bigchalk eLibrary -- online reference center including books, magazines, newspapers, pictures, maps, and TV transcripts.

Massachusetts Newsstand -- newspaper articles from the Boston Globe (1980 - current), Boston Herald (1991 - current), and ten other Massachusetts newspapers.

Grolier Online -- 2 electronic encyclopedias-- New Book of Knowledge and Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.  Articles in these encyclopedias link you to other articles and also to relevant web sites where you can find more information on your topic.

REMOTE ACCESS

These databases are also available from home. You can gain access to these
resources from home by going to the Answers...To Go! web page made available 
from the Northeast Massachusetts Regional Library System:

http://www.nmrls.org/answers/dbmvlc.html

and enter your public library card number (from Methuen or any MVLC member 
library) where you are prompted for a patron or user number.

CITING SOURCES

Using these links indicates the user is leaving 
the district server and that linked material
is not necessarily approved by the district.

Edited by Media Staff
02/11/09
Date last edited
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