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NHMRC Draft Infant Feeding Guidelines for Health Workers - Comments needed before 5th Dec 2011

NHMRC.jpg"The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has released the draft Infant Feeding Guidelines for Health Workers for public consultation.

You are invited .... ..to make a submission to the NHMRC about the draft Guidelines.

Nutrition

Getting Started

If you are not sure what your topic is about, try one or more of the following:

Journal Articles

For recent information, journal articles are often the best sources. Looking through individual journals in the hope of finding relevant material is time-consuming. It is better to use the databases to find articles on your topic.

Journal Articles: 

PubMed

It includes citations for biomedical articles and provides citations and abstracts to biomedical literature including research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and healthcare services.

Medline (via Ebscohost)

EBSCOHost version of Medline. Contains citations and abstracts covering a broad range of medical topics relating to research, clinical practice, administration, policy issues, and health care services.

CINAHL

Contains citations with abstracts to articles published in nursing and allied health journals. Also covers relevant materials from biomedicine, management, behavioural sciences, health sciences librarianship, education, and consumer health.

CAB Abstracts

Bibliographic database covering international research and development literature in agriculture, animal health, forestry, human health and nutrition, and management and conservation of natural resources. Includes fulltext of selected conference proceedings, reports and journals.

Food Science and Technology Abstracts

It provides coverage of pure and applied research in food science, food technology, and food-related human nutrition. FSTA covers the complete food manufacturing cycle, from initial market research to final packaging.

Web of Science

Provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from high impact research journals. Web of Science also provides cited reference searching.

Scopus

Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources. Subject coverage includes chemistry, physics, mathematics, engineering, life and health sciences, psychology, economics, social sciences, and biological and agricultural sciences.

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Cutting through the nutritional maze

The Mayo Clinic has released Nutrition basics, a user-friendly to help people keep on top of constantly changing dietary messages. There are short factual pieces on a whole range of topics such as caffeine, omega-6, MUFAs, fibre and supplements. There is information on healthy diet, healthy cooking methods and advice on shopping.