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Children's Nutrition
The obesity issue has been in the headlines recently - check out our selection of books and articles on nutrition and the childhood obesity issue below:
Second helpings: from the dinner lady, by Jeanette Orrey.
"A wonderful family cookbook with over 120 simple, delicious and healthy recipes from the bestselling author of The Dinner Lady, the school-dinners cook who inspired Jamie Oliver, and is changing the way our children eat." (Library Catalogue)
Everyday eating for babies & children, by Judith Wills.
"A must for any mum who cares about what her children eat. This brilliant book has plenty of advice on health and nutrition, with useful chapters on weaning your baby and plenty of delicious healthy recipes and weekly meal plans to keep children happy from six months through to starting school..." Review Pregnancy Baby & You Magazine, June 2007 (Amazon.co.uk)
Feeding the under 5s, by Allan Dyson and Lucy Meredith.
"One young child in every four is overweight and one in ten is obese, some of the reasons for this are: a general lack of interest and understanding of food and cooking; junk food being consumed every day; and a more sedentary school life. As a key issue that needs to be tackled early, starting with the under fives, this book offers: advice and recipe ideas for feeding young children properly; ways to improve young children's understanding of food and nutrition; contemporary evidence and policies recommended by expert advisory bodies; and underlying reasons behind nutritional guidelines and food safety advice and practical ways to implement them. The authors present all of this in plain English without assuming any prior knowledge of nutrition, food safety or health issues." (Amazon.co.uk)
Yummy! Every parent's nutrition bible, by Jane Clarke.
Feeding kids: the netmums.com cookery book, with Judith Wills.
More books on Nutrition for children
Articles
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How to get your child to try new foods (and like 'em!), Celia Barbour, Parenting, May2006, Vol. 20 Issue 4, p103-107.
The article offers some tips to mothers for helping their children improve their eating habits. Do not be a short-order cook and do not force your children to eat. Give them flavourful food. With their naturally sensitive palates, children really notice when something tastes good. Introduce vegetables to your children by using recipes that integrate them into delicious main dishes, such as eggplant layered with spiced ground lamb.
Children's Diets: Changing Trends Over Time, Child Health Alert, Oct2004, Vol. 22.
Highlights the significance of improving overall diets to reduce obesity in children. Number of obese child under 5 years of age in the U.S. as of 1998; Description of the diet of the preschool children that were included in the research on the improvement of children's diets over the last 20 years.
Eat up your greens, Economist, 12/4/2004, Vol. 373 Issue 8404.
The article observes that as Britain's government worries about obesity which is rising fast among children, and urges everyone to eat less salt, fat and sugar, and more fruit and vegetables, the paucity and unhealthiness of most school meals is striking. Food has been seen as a cost to be cut, rather than an ingredient of good schooling. Since cost-cutting began in the 1980s, quality has fallen along with food budgets. More and more children have chosen to bring packed lunches, spend their dinner money on fast food or skip lunch altogether. Now only half the pupils who could eat school meals do so. As numbers fall, the overheads become more burdensome and the pressure on ingredients greater. The easiest way to get more children into the school dining room is to offer fast food, like chips and pizza, but that conflicts with improving nutrition. It is not just about money, says Neil Porter of the Local Authority Caterers' Association, who notes that school meals are only 15 percent of a child's annual food intake.
New Books
Every month the MyLibrary Health recent picks include a selection of new items on this subject, along with reviews and catalogue links. Readers of this page may also be interested in the Personal Development recent selections.
Finding health information in our libraries: The Health subject guide provides:
- Clickable catalogue links for major medical conditions
- A guide to health books arranged in our libraries
- Health resources available via mygateway.info online databases
- Health magazines
- Health newsletters
Health magazines@the library and on the Web:
Healthy Food Guide NZ magazine: Monthly guide to healthy food options, with recipes, reviews of new food items etc Healthy Food on the Web
Health
New Zealand family physician
Healthy Options
Men's Health
Prevention
Safeguard : the magazine for better safety and health at the workplace.
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Health Websites:
Most of the following sites deal with general and consumer health issues. There are numerous sites devoted to individual health topics that would be to many to mention here. Some of the following portals link to other sites that provide information on these topics.
mygateway.info health page links to many useful sites, including Gale's Health and Wellness Resource Center and Alternative Health Module.
PubMed
Maintained by the National Library of Medicine, a part of the United States National Institute of Health, PubMed is the publicly accessible version of Medline, the world's largest index of medical information. Using this database, articles on any medical topic imaginable can be located. But be warned this information database is designed for health professionals, and thus comes with a lot of jargon.
Wellington City Libraries provides an Interloan service that can obtain the full-text of any article you find.
New Zealand
Ministry of Health
The Government's Ministry of Health site provides information on health policy issues in New Zealand. While not containing information on particular medical conditions, the site's links to health support organisations e.g. The Arthritis Foundation of New Zealand
National Library of New Zealand Health Website Directory
The National Library of New Zealand's Te Puna web directory also has a page of links to New Zealand medical and health web sites. The pages has also has sub-page links to sites on disabilities, and fitness and exercise.
TOXINZ
TOXINZ is an Internet database containing information regarding toxic compounds and the management of poisoned patients. Under construction to meet Australasian requirements the database contains some 60,000 listed chemical products, pharmaceuticals, plants and hazardous creatures; and is rapidly expanding to accommodate more.
International
Researching Medical Literature on the Internet
Compiled by an experienced research librarian, this site introduces many of the most useful online health websites, journals, search engines and databases. There is advice on how to use the different resources and the strengths of each.
Medical Reference For Non-Medical Librarians
This site contains a comprehensive annotated listing of medical reference materials, with links to online resources when available. The sections include 'Child Health', 'Mental Health', 'Nutrition' and 'Senior Health'. Denison Memorial Library also offers valuable advice on the troublesome task of evaluating online medical information.
Healthfinder
The US Department of Health and Human Services maintains Healthfinder. Easy to navigate, Healthfinder provides links to resources on different health issues, as well as medical dictionaries and online journals.
Health on the Net
Health on the Net, a Swiss non-profit organisation, claims to be one of the most respected medical portals in the world. The site contains a search engine that is based on the National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings (MeSH), and has a large image database. The site also hosts articles on current medical hot topics e.g. aging.
MedWeb
MedWeb is a catalogue of web clinical and medical sites, and is maintained by the health science library at Emory University in the United States. Librarians at Emory have evaluated MedWeb content according to credibility, content, currency, design and relevancy.
Patient UK
Similar to Healthfinder, Patient UK links to UK websites providing health information. Edited by two GPs, the site aims to bring reputable sites to the attention of health consumers. Sites are listed under subject headings, and sections for men's health, women's health, senior's health etc. are separately listed.
NOAH
New York Online Access to Health (NOAH) provides full-text reliable health information for consumers. You can browse through the comprehensive list of health topics or do keyword searches. This regularly updated site is maintained by NY area libraries and the New York Academy of Medicine.
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The aim of this page is to keep you informed about the health resources available and to highlight parts of WCL's collection that may interest you. We would be pleased to hear from you about this page: Contact Libraries website team.
