National Nutrition Month® is a nutrition education and information campaign created by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. This campaign is focused each year in March to focus on the importance of informed nutritional behaviors and physical activity habits. National Nutrition Month® also contains Registered Dietitian Nutritionist Day, celebrated on the second Wednesday in March. This day increases awareness of registered dietitian nutritionists as essential providers of food and nutrition services and for their commitment to helping people enjoy healthy lives.
Texas A&M University’s Health Promotion office is promoting National Nutrition Month® with a variety of events addressing these barriers to prevent consequences in the future health of our Aggie student population. Programming includes, but is not limited to, cooking demonstrations for healthy meals, learning how to eat healthy on a budget, a campus food drive for The 12th Can, and a sharing of resources related to nutrition, dietetics, and food insecurity. To view the entire calendar of events for TAMU's National Nutrition Month®, please click here.
Students, staff and faculty may retrieve books from the physical collection or submit a request through the Get It for Me Service.
Eating Culture: An Anthropological Guide to Food by ISBN: 1487593295Publication Date: 2018Category: Food, Nutrition, and Culture
From ingredients and recipes to meals and menus across time and space, this highly engaging overview illustrates the important roles that anthropology and anthropologists play in understanding food and its key place in the study of culture.
Food and Culture: A Reader by ISBN: 9780415977777Publication Date: 2008Category: Food, Nutrition, and Culture
'Food and Culture' takes a global look at the social, symbolic, and political-economic role of food. The stellar contributors to this reader examine some of the meanings of food and eating across cultures, with particular attention to how men and women define themselves differently through their foodways. Crossing many subjects, this innovative, first-of-its-kind in the field includes the perspectives of anthropology, history, psychology, philosophy, politics, and sociology.
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by ISBN: 9781594201455Publication Date: 2008Category: Food, Nutrition, and Culture
Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we see to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.
Dietland: A Novel by ISBN: 9780544373433Publication Date: 2015Category: Food, Nutrition, and Culture
Plum Kettle does her best not to be noticed, because when you’re fat, to be noticed is to be judged. With her job answering fan mail for a teen magazine, she is biding her time until her weight-loss surgery. But when a mysterious woman in colorful tights and combat boots begins following her, Plum falls down a rabbit hole into the world of Calliope House — an underground community of women who reject society’s rules — and is forced to confront the real costs of becoming “beautiful.” At the same time, a guerilla group begins terrorizing a world that mistreats women, and Plum becomes entangled in a sinister plot. The consequences are explosive.
Between Harlem and Heaven: Afro-Asian-American Cooking for Big Nights, Weeknights, and Every Day by ISBN: 9781250108715Publication Date: 2018Category: Nutrition, Food Preparation, and Cooking
In two of the most renowned and historic venues in Harlem, Alexander Smalls and JJ Johnson created a unique take on the Afro-Asian-American flavor profile. Their foundation was a collective three decades of traveling the African diaspora, meeting and eating with chefs of color, and researching the wide reach of a truly global cuisine; their inspiration was how African, Asian, and African-American influences criss-crossed cuisines all around the world. They present here for the first time over 100 recipes that go beyond just one place, taking you, as noted by The New Yorker, “somewhere between Harlem and heaven.”
Tastes of North Africa : Mouth-Watering Recipes from Morocco to the Mediterranean by ISBN: 1856266028Publication Date: 2005Category: Cooking, North Africa
The tastes of North Africa represent one of the world's most exotic and tantalising cuisines. Having assimilated the influences of many regional cuisines, they encapsulate a rich cultural infusion. When the Moors conquered the lands around the Mediterranean over a thousand years ago, they brought with them foods that were to fashion western cooking for years to come. Spices from the caravan trade, rice from India, citrus fruit, aubergines, spinach and sugar cane were all introduced to Spain, Portugal, Sicily and Provence by the Arab invaders. In turn, when later expelled from their beloved Al-Andaluz, they took back to Morroco the culinary lessons the Iberian peninsula had taught them and maintained close links across the Gibraltar Straits, trading in tomatoes and peppers from Columbus' travels in the New World. Sarah Woodward is a fascinating guide to this culinary map, showing you how to combine vegetables, fruits, meats, nuts and spices and taste each dish as a delicious and intriguing slice of history.
Eat Move Sleep: How Small Choices Lead to Big Changes by ISBN: 9781939714008Publication Date: 2013Category: Exercise, Health Behavior
In Eat Move Sleep, #1 New York Times bestselling author Tom Rath delivers a book that will improve your health for years to come. While Tom’s bestsellers on strengths and well-being have already inspired more than 5 million people in the last decade, Eat Move Sleep reveals his greatest passion and expertise.
30 Secrets of the World's Healthiest Cuisines: Global Eating Tips and Recipes From China, France, Japan, the Mediterranean, Africa, and Scandinavia by ISBN: 0471352632Publication Date: 2000Category: International Cooking, Diet
Discover the most delicious ways to eat healthier from around the world We all know that eating healthier is easier said than done. New diets pop up every few months; the only problem is that the food choices are often too bland and there's usually little variety in the dishes you can eat. 30 Secrets of the World's Healthiest Cuisines is about to change all that. In a delicious departure from the nutrition-through-sacrifice school of cooking, this book celebrates the international and the flavorful with a healthy twist. You'll find out how to use the most healthful nutritional principles and ingredients from the world's major cuisines to create one fabulous, healthy global eating program. 30 Secrets of the World's Healthiest Cuisines blends the latest nutrition research with information about the culinary histories and traditions of a number of major countries and regions around the world.
The Psychology of Eating and Drinking by ISBN: 9781135067625Publication Date: 2014Category: Nutrition, Food Habits
This insightful, thought-provoking, and engaging book explores the truth behind how and why we eat and drink what we do. Instead of promising easy answers to eliminating picky eating or weight loss, this book approaches controversial eating and drinking issues from a more useful perspective―explaining the facts to promote understanding of our bodies. The only book to provide an educated reader with a broad, scientific understanding of these topics, The Psychology of Eating and Drinking explores basic eating and drinking processes, such as hunger and taste, as well as how these concepts influence complex topics such as eating disorders, alcohol use, and cuisine. This new edition is grounded in the most up-to-date advances in scientific research on eating and drinking behaviors and will be of interest to anyone.
The Compendium of Physical Activities by Publication Date: 2003Category: Exercise, Energy Metabolism
The Compendium of Physical Activities was developed to facilitate the coding of
physical activities obtained from physical activity records, logs, and surveys and
to promote comparison of coded physical activity levels across observational
studies.
Everyday Paleo Around the World Italian Cuisine: Authentic Recipes Made Gluten-Free by ISBN: 9781936608300Publication Date: 2013Category: Cooking, Italian Cuisine
One hundred Italian recipes that are grain, dairy and legume free.
Films
A Place at the Table by
Publication Date: 2013
Using personal stories, this powerful documentary illuminates the plight of the 49 million Americans struggling with food insecurity. A single mother, a small-town policeman and a farmer are among those for whom putting food on the table is a daily battle.Fed Up by
Publication Date: 2014
A documentary that looks at our common perceptions of food and exercise, knowledge that the food industry and the government know is misleading.
Cooked by Publication Date: 2016
As he tries his hand at baking, brewing and braising, acclaimed food writer Michael Pollan explores how cooking transforms food and shapes our world.
Tai ChengPublication Date: 2012
Tai Cheng is a total-body fitness program that offers both immediate and long-term benefits through learning the slow and graceful movements of Tai chi. Each move helps strengthen areas of weakness, tone muscles, and burn fat while also helping to increase flexibility, improve balance, and reduce stiffness.
Exhilarate: The Ultimate Zumba Fitness DVD ExperiencePublication Date: 2011
The Zumba program was created in the 1990's by Colombian native Alberto "Beto" Perez, a celebrity fitness trainer and choreographer for International pop superstars. Inspired by the traditional cumbia, salsa, samba and merengue music he grew up with, Beto paired his favorite pulsating Latin rhythms with the red-hot international dance steps his clients loved and the first Zumba fitness-party was born.
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Publication Date: 2014
"Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants." With those seven words, journalist Michael Pollan distills a career's worth of reporting into a prescription for reversing the damage being done to people's health by today's industrially-driven Western diet. Pollan offers a clear answer to one of the most urgent questions of our time: What should I eat to be healthy?
Sustenance by Publication Date: 2020
A challenge by a group of friends with different diets takes the viewers on a global journey in search of the dimensions of sustainability.
Bugs: The Series by Publication Date: 2018
For the past three years a team from Copenhagen-based Nordic Food Lab, made up of chefs and researchers Josh Evans, Ben Reade and Roberto Flore, has been traveling the world to learn what some of the two billion people who already eat insects have to say in Europe, Australia, Mexico, Kenya, Japan and beyond.
Podcasts
Aggie WellTalk2020-present
Health Promotion empowers all Aggies to embrace a culture of holistic well-being that fosters their academic, personal and professional success.
Food Heaven2015-present
The Food Heaven Podcast dives into topics like health at every size (HAES), food & culture, intuitive eating, and body acceptance. If you’re looking for a sustainable and inclusive path to wellness, hang out with Wendy and Jess every Wednesday to learn how to take care of yourself from the inside out.
Dishing Up Nutrition2009-present
Understand the connection between what you eat and how you feel. Hosted by licensed nutritionists and dietitians from Nutritional Weight & Wellness we share practical, real-life solutions for healthier living through nutrition.
Sound Bites®2015-present
Sound Bites® Podcast engages researchers, academics, authors, dietitians and more to delve into the science, psychology and strategies behind good food and nutrition. Topics vary from fad diets to farming to fertility and beyond. Listeners gain credible information to help them make their own, well-informed nutrition decisions based on facts, not fear.
Love, Food Podcast2016-present
Clean eating. Low carb. Low fat. Do this not that. Now what? Eating is getting too stuffy and complicated. Throw open your windows to allow a new stream of health, wellness, and peace.
Databases
- CAB Abstracts (Ovid) This link opens in a new windowThe major resource for agriculture, veterinary medicine, and forestry in the world: agriculture, forestry, human nutrition, animal health, natural resources.
Alternate titles: Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International abstracts
Published by: Ovid Technologies, Inc. - CINAHL Ultimate This link opens in a new windowCINAHL Ultimate is the new definitive resource for nursing and allied health research, providing full text for more of the most used journals in the CINAHL index than any other database. It covers more than 50 nursing specialties and includes quick lessons, evidence-based care sheets, CEU modules and research instruments.
- PubMed This link opens in a new windowNational Library of Medicine's interface to MEDLINE, NLM's bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, dentistry, nursing, veterinary medicine, healthcare administration, and the pre-clinical sciences. PubMed also provides access to additional biomedical journals not indexed by MEDLINE.
Published by: National Center for Biotechnology Information
Journals
- Annual Review of NutritionThe Annual Review of Nutrition, in publication since 1981, covers the significant developments in the field of nutrition, including energy metabolism, carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and amino acids, vitamins, minerals, nutrient transport and function, metabolic regulation, nutritional genomics, molecular and cell biology, clinical nutrition, comparative nutrition, nutritional anthropology, nutritional toxicology, nutritional microbiology, epidemiology, and public health nutrition.
- The Journal of NutritionThe Journal of Nutrition (JN) publishes peer-reviewed original research papers covering all aspects of experimental nutrition in humans and other animal species; special articles such as reviews and biographies of prominent nutrition scientists; and issues, opinions, and commentaries on controversial issues in nutrition.
- Journal of Nutrition EducationPrint began with v. 1 (summer 1969) and ceased with v. 33 (Nov./Dec. 2001)
- Journal of Nutrition Education and BehaviorPrint began with v. 34, no. 1 (Jan./Feb. 2002)
The Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (JNEB), the official journal of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, is a refereed, scientific periodical that serves as a global resource for all professionals with an interest in nutrition education; nutrition and physical activity behavior theories and intervention outcomes; complementary and alternative medicine related to nutrition behaviors; food environment; food, nutrition, and physical activity communication strategies including technology; nutrition-related economics; food safety education; and scholarship of learning related to these areas. - Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and DieteticsThe Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is the premier source for the practice and science of food, nutrition, and dietetics.
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025 is the first set of guidelines that provide guidance for healthy dietary patterns by life stage, from birth through older adulthood, and for the first time, there are chapters devoted to each life stage, including chapters on infants and toddlers and women who are pregnant or lactating.
- Healthy People 2023Healthy People 2030 sets data-driven national objectives to improve health and well-being over the next decade.
- Scientific Report of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory CommitteeScientific review on nutrition and health, submitted to the United States Departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services.