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Feinberg Library has both in-print and online reference resources! Here are a few suggestions to get you started, use the call number at the end of each title to locate the resource in the library. Electronic resources are used by clicking on the e-link in the Feinberg catalog.
Goldstein, Myrna Chandler, Food and nutrition controversies today : a reference guide /
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2009. TX357 .G5745 2009
Bender, David A. Bender's dictionary of nutrition and food technology [electronic resource] /Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press ; Cambridge, England : Woodhead Pub., c2006. Ebook
Berdanier, Carolyn D. CRC desk reference for nutrition / Boca Raton, FL : CRC/Taylor & Francis, 2005. Ref. QP141 .B523 2005
Nutrition and well-being A to Z / Delores C.S. James, editor in chief. Detroit, Mich. : Macmillan Reference USA, c2004. Ref. RA784 .N838 2004
Nutrition and well-being a to z [electronic resource] / Detroit, Mich. : Macmillan Reference USA, c2004. Ebook