Health and Nutrition Resources

Tips and information for healthier living and how to prepare nutritious foods from Provo City Library and the USU Extension Center.

Print Resources

Printable Handouts

From the 2008 For the Love of Food program series at the Provo City Library in connection with the USU Extension center.

• Nutrition During Pregnancy
• Feeding Infants
• Feeding Preschool Children
• Heart Healthy Eating
• My Food Pyramid
• Quick Meals/Snacks
• Fitness
• Fruits and Vegetables
• Grains
• Meats, Beans and Protein
• Milk and Dairy Foods

Books

610.3..................................... Medical Dictionaries
613........................................ Diet
613.7..................................... Exercise
615.5..................................... Alternative Medicine
616........................................ Diseases
616.8..................................... Mental Health
641.563................................ Healthy Cookery

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Reference Resources

In the 610-618.92 section of the reference collection are the health resources.

Library Catalog

Health and Nutrition Magazines Available at the Library

• Backpacker
• Bicycling
• Climbing
• Cooking Light
• Cycle World
• Fitness
• Health
• JAMA
• Mayo Clinic Health Letter
• Men’s Health
• Natural Health
• Nursing
• Organic Gardening
• Prevention
• Runner’s World
• Self
• Ski
• Snowboarder
• Tennis
• Vegetarian Times
• Weight Watchers
• Women’s Health
• Yoga Journal

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Databases

Subscription databases are available in the library and from home with a Provo City Library Card and PIN.

	Consumer Health Info (a collection of EBSCOhost databases)  Provides access to a collection of consumer health databases including Alt Health Watch, MEDLINE, and Health Source: Consumer Edition.  Contents include full text articles, health-related pamphlets, and reference books.  All written for the average consumer.
	Health and Medicine (a collection of EBSCOhost databases) Provides access to a collection of medical and consumer health databases including Alt Health Watch, CANCERLIT, MEDLINE, Clinical Pharmacology, Health Source: Nursing/Academic and Health Source: Consumer Edition.  Contents include full text articles, health-related pamphlets, and reference books.
	MedicLatina (an EBSCOhost database A Spanish language collection of medical research and investigative journals published by renowned Latin American medical publishers.  Full text for more than 140 peer-reviewed medical journals.
	Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center One-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues.  Features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full-text magazine and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to related sites.

Internet Sites

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