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NUTR 1 (Himmelstein) - Nutrition

Articles

Articles, including popular, scholarly, and scholarly peer reviewed from periodicals are great for exploring a narrower, particular aspect of your topic. Each type of article can be found through our online library databases and offer a different sort of view, depending on their purpose.

To find articles use the pull-down tab below to select one of the periodical databases for this class.  Once the database is open, search for your topic by keyword, refine your results, capture relevant entries, and finally, be sure to enter in the citation information into Noodletools.  

Noodletools Tip: Select "database," then select the type of periodical the article came from, so use the "Magazine," "Newspaper," or "Journal" options.  Then fill in as many of the fields as possible, using the information from the database information page.

Click here for information on the different article types.

Search Statement Examples:

  • "saturated fat" AND cardiovascular
  • "fatty liver" AND diet
  • "ketogenic diet" AND health
  • microbiome AND health
  • "vegan diet" AND health
  • "artificial sweetener" AND safety
  • "food safety" AND meat

Tutorial: Finding Scholarly Articles

Find Articles

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Database Searching Tips

Let's say you want to find an article that discusses the amount of bacteria contained in a soda from a fast food restaurant. Here are some suggestions to go about doing this: 

1) Determine the key words/terms for your search.
Using our example, the key terms would be: bacteria and soda and "fast food"

2) If one of your key words/terms is a phrase, use quotation marks around that phrase.
Example: "fast food"
(This will ensure that your search returns articles that are specifically about fast food, not just about food in general or articles that simply contain the word fast.)

3)When searching for an article containing more than one key term, use a connector word such as AND to join the two (or more) terms.
Example: bacteria AND soda AND "fast food"
(You can use the word AND to connect as many terms/phrases as you like, just be aware that the more connector words you use, the more limiting your search will be and the less articles you will see displayed in your results.)

4) If you are having trouble locating relevant articles, you may need to broaden or change your search strategy.
Here are a few suggestions that may help with your search:

-Try searching with synonyms (words with similar meanings) of your key terms.
For example:  instead of soda, use the word pop--bacteria AND pop AND "fast food" or bacteria AND coke AND "fast food" or bacteria AND "soda pop" AND "fast food"

-Try removing one or more of your search terms to broaden your search.  For example:  bacteria AND soda or bacteria AND "fast food"

-Can also use the * to search using the root of a word.  This will retrieve articles that contain all words that have that root.  For example:  microb*  (This would retrieve articles where the following words were used: microbe, microbiology, microbial, etc.).

**As always, if you need research assistance, please contact a librarian.  A librarian can suggest further search terms, strategies, or databases to try.**

Subjects: Nutrition