See Internet Information Remains Unhealthy from Nutrition News Focus , which gives some hints for finding reliable nutrition web sites. See the links on the Internet Resources for Nutrition or the Internet Resources for Nursing pages. If you need statistics, the CDC Search page retrieves health and disease data from the Center for Disease Control and the National Center for Health Statistics . For help in citing material you find on web sites, use the links on our Citing Electronic Resources page. Depending on your topic and your own knowledge about it, you may want to find an overview.
Encyclopedias are usually excellent sources for overviews.
Use these links, or ask a reference librarian for help. The index for the complete set is duplicated in each volume. The Annual Review of Nutrition provides an overview of research in the field of nutrition. The Annual Review of Medicine may also be useful. You can also get overviews and encyclopedia articles from the Health Reference Center-Academic database.