I started my research by typing the words "Human Nutrition" into Wikipedia, and read through the definition and description. I read through all of the Notes and References (footnotes) and noticed many article titles about children. These articles had to do with global issues, malnutrition and undernutrition in children. I chose a few articles that pertained to nutrition in childhood because childhood nutrition was a topic I recently read about in another class, and I it pertains to my personal life because I feed my toddler. I then went to the University of Arizona Health Sciences Library online and began my research with Google Scholar. I copied and pasted the whole link from the footnotes into Google Scholar, I had difficulty finding the articles; however, when I typed in just the article name I had better luck and was able to locate the articles I was looking for from Wikipedia.
The first article I picked from the footnotes was "Progress for Children: A Report Card on Nutrition (No. 4)." I copied and pasted the footnote into Google Scholar and was able to find an html version of this book, which was published in May 2006. I read the introduction and foreword in the beginning of the book to get a better idea of what the article was about and to decide if I wanted to read the whole chapter.
The second article I picked from the footnotes was, The European Health Report 2005: Public Health Action for Healthier Children and Populations. I found this article as a PDF in Google Scholar; however, it was in another language that I was unable to read. So this publication would not be useful to me.
The third article I picked was Maternal and Child Undernutrition: Global and regional exposures and health consequences. This article was available as an HTML document, with full-text from the UA library. I read the "Summary" and the "Introduction" of this article.
One thing I noticed from conducting this research was the year of the publications. They were over 7 years old. I reviewed the footnotes to see if there were any recent articles about childhood nutrition and found one from the World Health Organization in 2013. It was titled, "Essential Nutrition Actions: improving maternal, newborn, infant and young child health and nutrition." There was a full pdf available of this article.
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