Guides: Here's to Your Health! A Consumer Health Research Guide: Nutrition

Databases-Look for Nutrition Literature

Interactive DRI
Find out your personal Dietary requirements for both macro and micro-nutrients.
My Food Record
A food & exercise analysis tool from the University of Illinois.

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Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window Considered the “gold standard” for evidence-based practice, Cochrane Library is a collection of databases including the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (“Reviews”), which has full-text evidence-based reviews of health care practices and treatments. Additional databases that are not full-text: abstracts of systematic reviews, technology assessments, economic evaluations, and citations to clinical trials.

USDA Nutrition Evidence Library The USDA and HHS reviewed the evidence when developing the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/DietaryGuidelines.htm) or DGAC. The A-Z tab on the top of theThe Nutrition Evidence Library contains the systematic review questions, results, and conclusions.