Manual of Dietetic Practice : 5th edition: 2014

The newly published edition of the Manual of Dietetic Practice (5th edition, 2014) by Joan Gandy is now available as an eBook. Click on the book title link above to access. You will need a Library PIN if accessing the textbook outside the DIT network.

Hardcopies of the title are also on order and should arrive in to both the Short Loan and Lending collections shortly.

Get a little sun this summer.......if you can!!

Studies increasingly are suggesting the value of vitamin D – often known as the sunshine vitamin, because that’s one way you can obtain it – in everything from bone metabolism to maintaining muscle strength, immune function, reducing hypertension and possibly even playing a role in prevention of cancer and autoimmune disease.Studies increasingly are suggesting the value of vitamin D – often known as the sunshine vitamin, because that’s one way you can obtain it – in everything from bone metabolism to maintaining muscle strength, immune function, reducing hypertension and possibly even playing a role in prevention of cancer and autoimmune disease. Read article from ScienceDaily at

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080616161111.htm

A recipe for food evolution

Researchers apply statistics to cookery books in different cultures.

Many people say they really enjoy food; Antonio Roque can cite a paper to prove his love for it
To read more please click on the link:
http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080307/full/news.2008.660.html

New edition of Adams & Moss Food MIcrobiology

Two copies of the 3rd edition of Food Microbiology are now in the Short Loan Collection and three copies are available for lending at the 664.001579 shelfmark.

Food Microbiology

Martin R. Adams, Maurice O. Moss.
Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry,

2008 , 3rd edition.

Institute of Food Science & Technology (UK)

For the latest food science and technology information go to the IFST website @

http://www.ifst.org/site/cms/contentChapterView.asp?chapter=1

Dietary Supplements

The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) is part of the US National Institutes of Health. The site provides research information about supplements and links to other nutrition info and material.

http://ods.od.nih.gov/

Listeria and pregnancy

Read how researchers in UCC have found a way to kill Listeria @


http://0-www.ireland.com.ditlib.dit.ie/newspaper/sciencetoday/2007/0802/index.html

The probiotic that could make pregnancy safer, The Irish Times, 2/8/2007,
by Yvonne Cunningham