Finding Healthy Information Food

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Finding Healthy InformationFood Fitness
Institute

• Holy Spirit Library
• Cabrini College
• April 30, 2017

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Agenda

• Finding reliable information on the Internet
• Health, food, and fitness information
• Recipes

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Reliable Information

• Anyone can create a Web page
• advertise
• disseminate propaganda
• fraud
• If its on the Internet its true
• fact and opinion is mixed
• just plain wrong
• biased
• Where do you go to find your information?

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How Search Engines Work

• How Search Engines Work
• Major Search Engines The Same, But Different
• Spiders/Crawlers
• Find specific sites
• Index found sites
• Search the index
• Search Engine Ranking
• Algorithms
• location/frequency method
• The same, but different
• Off page factors (linking)

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Types of Information

• .edu (educational)
• serious university research
• student or faculty members homepage
• .gov (governmental)
• government information
• reliable
• .com (commercial)
• may be trying to sell a product

• .net (network)
• service for commercial or individual customers
• .org (organizational)
• usually created by a nonprofit institution
• may try to persuade the reader/ may be biased

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Anatomy of a URL

• http//www.mypyramid.gov/pyramid/vegetables.html
• the URL Web server www.mypyramid.gov
• the path of the document /pyramid
• the file containing the document vegetables.html

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Five Criteria for Evaluating a Web Page

• Authority
• Accuracy/Objectivity
• Currency
• Audience
• Scope/Purpose
• Organization?

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Health, Food, and Fitness

• Health Information
• http//health.nih.gov/search.asp/24
• http//www.mypyramid.gov/professionals/
• http//www.nhlbisupport.com/bmi/
• http//health.discovery.com/tools/calculators/basa
  l/basal.html
• Food
• http//kidshealth.org/teen/food_fitness/
• http//vm.cfsan.fda.gov/dms/foodlab.html
• Activity
• http//www.cfsan.fda.gov/dms/flquiz1.html
• Fitness
• http//kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?dnwellercen
  terps203lic127cat_id20518Exercise__Sports
• http//www.ymca.net/programs/programs_for_health_a
  nd_fitness.html

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Scavenger Hunt

• SCAVENGER HUNT RULES
• Highest score wins
• First team finished gets an extra point
• Any strategy works
• No sabotage
• Recipes
• Find healthy recipes you would enjoy.

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• ANY QUESTIONS?