Family and Consumer Sciences

Provides credible, accurate, and practical resources for nutrition and health professionals, educators, government personnel, and consumers.

Aims to strengthen knowledge & understanding of dietary supplements. Includes a dictionary of supplements, fact sheets for supplements, videos, and more.

Primary source of economic information and research in the US Department of Agriculture. ERS conducts a research program to inform public & private decision-making on economic and policy issues involving food, farming, natural resources, and rural development.

Search portal for the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference and the USDA Branded Food Products Database.

Provides information on food & nutrition programs sponsored by the government as well as the USDA's own research.

Responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. Provides current information on governmental food & drug policies.

World's largest organization of dietetics and nutrition professionals and the source for ACEND, the accrediting body for undergraduate and graduate dietetics programs.

A collaboration between the Baylor University College of Medicine and the USDA, this site offers nutrition & energy calculators and a nutritional newsletter aimed at bettering children's nutrition.

Consumer-based information from the USDA Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion. Includes interactive tools such as SuperTracker (for tracking foods eaten) and a BMI calculator.

Dietary guidelines for Americans that are published every 5 years by the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion for health professionals.

Facts from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics on the job outlook, median pay, educational requirements, etc. for dietitians and nutritionists in the US.

CDC nutrition efforts support public health strategies and programs that improve dietary quality, support healthy child development, and reduce chronic disease.

Aims to strengthen knowledge & understanding of dietary supplements. Includes a dictionary of supplements, fact sheets for supplements, videos, and more.

Search portal for the USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference and the USDA Branded Food Products Database.

Proquest's open access search which includes dissertations and theses

A free database with records for more than 1.4 million electronic theses and dissertations from more than 320 universities around the world.

Search the electronic theses and dissertations contained in the NDLTD archive.

OATD.org aims to be the best possible resource for finding open-access graduate theses and dissertations published around the world.

An open archive of theses. Authors can also upload their thesis.