Fast Food & Nutrition


The following resources will help you research nutritional and caloric values of fast food restaurants.

 Databases

  Health Reference Center Academic
Multi-source database provides access to the full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus the wide variety of personal health information sources in InfoTrac's award-winning Health Reference Center.
     

Health and Wellness Resource Center and
Alternative Health Module
Medical information for health professionals and general readers.
Includes medical dictionary and encyclopedia, health news and much more.
Student Resource Center - Health Module
Includes more than 1,200 essays on medical and health-related topics, including diseases, treatments, and major historical figures in the fields of medicine, chemistry, biology, and related areas along with  photographs and diagrams.

 Websites

The Fast Food Explorer: http://www.fatcalories.com/

Fast Food Facts: http://www.foodfacts.info/

Fast Food Nutrition Facts Calculator: http://pediatrics.about.com/cs/fastfood/l/bl_restaurants.htm

Fast Food Nutrition Links (restaurant websites): http://southernfood.about.com/library/weekly/aa081402a.htm

Fast Food Nutrition - Nutrition Facts Meal Calculator: http://www.fastfoodnutrition.org/calc1.php

Fast Food Restaurants and Nutrition Facts Compared: http://southernfood.about.com/library/weekly/aa081402a.htm

Restaurant Nutrition Facts - Fast Food Restaurants: http://www.dietfacts.com/fastfood.asp


If you do not find what you're looking for in the above resources, try the search tips listed below.

  Internet Search Tips

  1. Type the URL (web site address) of a search directory/engine in the address box: ex: www.yahoo.com, or www.google.com, etc.
     
  2. (Be sure to type the address exactly the way you see it, including any uppercase letters and punctuation).
     
  3. Type in keyword(s). (If your keyword has two parts such as: "fast food restaurants", be sure to put quotes around it so that the search engine only finds the Internet sites on fast food restaurants as opposed to all of the sites containing the word fast plus all of the sites containing the word food and restaurants.
     

  4. If you would like to search for something specific about fast food restaurants, try a combined keyword search by adding a comma followed by a space and your other search term. For instance; if I wanted to find out about the nutritional and caloric values of food served at fast food restaurants,  I would enter the following:

     "fast food restaurants", nutrition, calories

    Hit Enter on your keyboard, or click on Search, then scan the description of the "hits" (entries) and click on the links that sound best.
     

  5. Be sure to evaluate each Internet site for the following:
    • Authority: Can you tell if the author is credible (believable)?
    • Objectivity: Is the information objective (honest and free of bias)?
    • Currency: Is the information recent and up-to-date?
    • Design: Is the site designed in a clear and user friendly way?
    • Navigation: Is the site easy to navigate through, and are all links current and usable?

     

  6. Remember: if you choose to use any information (text or graphics) found on an Internet source, 
    you must include it in your bibliography.

Remember:  YOU MUST CITE EVERY RESOURCE YOU USED to gather information on your 
Works Cited (Bibliography) page.  Use the Works Cited Guide to access MLA format.

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