Where do you get your research from?

MelissaE1214
MelissaE1214 Posts: 73 Member
in Food and Nutrition
I have been heavily investigating healthy lifestyle living etc. Where do you look for your information?

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  • Lina4Lina
    Lina4Lina Posts: 712 Member
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

    WebMD has a lot of layman information but I always search PubMed for the 'real' stuff.

    Oh and the Journal of Nutrition often comes up in searches so it is good one to just look at. One thing that you should remember is that one study does not constitute 'proof' but rather something that should be looked into more thoroughly.
    http://jn.nutrition.org/
  • christimw
    christimw Posts: 183 Member
    i may not be much help, but i look for things that support my beliefs. i eat primal, so i tend to look for that kind of information. not that i discredit anything that goes against my beliefs on what i feel is best for me, i use my head and see where that evidence is coming from (like, i wouldn't rely on a study on how dangerous meat is from a vegetarian research group). i try to look for non biased stuff, but i suck at searching and stuff.
  • Wheelie_UK
    Wheelie_UK Posts: 29
    I have been heavily investigating healthy lifestyle living etc. Where do you look for your information?

    For corrobaritive excercise calorific information I use http://www.fitday.com/webfit/burned/calories_burned.html

    http://caloriecount.about.com/ provides nutritional information.

    However, at least for me, I find the best (Alround) site for information is http://www.livestrong.com

    Their super site is a plethora of information.
  • Lina4Lina
    Lina4Lina Posts: 712 Member
    I just found a site on the CDC website that also has some good overall information, also in laymans terms.
    http://www.cdc.gov/healthyweight/index.html
  • bcattoes
    bcattoes Posts: 17,299 Member
    My favorite online source is the Harvard School of Public Health nutrition site

    http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/

    www.webmd.com is also a good source, as is MedlinePlus (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/)

    If you want to read an individual study Pubmed or the journal in which is was published is a good resource, but I don't find those handy for studying nutrition because you'd have to read years and years worth of studies and study reviews to get relevant information.

    The sites mentioned above have already done that for you.

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