Primary Sources: Food: Nutrition & Health

"Morbidly obese Joe Cross endeavors to drink only fruit and vegetable juice for 60 days in an effort to lose weight, reboot his health, and inspire others along the way."

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Regulations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture related to various nutrition programs

U.S. Department of Agriculture website contains information related to the various food & nutrition programs available.

"The United States government has published dietary advice for more than one hundred years. In response to popular interest in these documents, the National Agricultural Library has collected, digitized, and united more than 2,000 items into a single online tool, the Historical Dietary Guidance Digital Collection."

"Jenny asks her mum Sue about how she feels when she is suffering from Anorexia. Jenny talks about how she felt growing up with her shape, size and height and with her compulsive eating disorder. She talks about not liking her body and enjoying doing strenuous and physical activities."

"The Nutrition and Food Safety (NFS) Department is addressing the burden of disease from physical, chemical and microbial hazards in food and unhealthy diets, maternal and child malnutrition, overweight and obesity."

"The Library holds about 40 manuscript receipt books in its collections. Many of the manuscripts contain a combination of culinary recipes, home remedies, and recipes for things like cosmetics and substances that would be used to accomplish general household tasks such as cleaning and polishing. Others are solely medical, containing formularies for the compounding of various remedies. This digital collection contains eleven English-language manuscript receipt books that were compiled between the seventeenth and the late nineteenth centuries in which the majority of the collected recipes are culinary in nature, but many recipes for home remedies are discoverable here as well."

"Model Tess Holliday opens up about her anorexia diagnosis and the subsequent backlash in an essay for TODAY.com."

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