This discussion board asks you to research the health benefits or concerns related to vegetarian and vegan diets.  Below are search suggestions.  On the left hand side are links to websites, articles, and ebooks that could be helpful.

The Library has lots of reliable resources, including reference books and journals, to help you. Studies continually demonstrate a correlation between improved grades and library usage, so be sure to use the suggested research strategies provided on this page. 

Starting Out

Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) is a great database to begin your research. This database consists of reliable reference encyclopedias and handbooks, giving you an overview of the topic.

Suggested search strategy:

• Search the collection generally. Keyword suggestions:
  • vegan diet
  • vegetarian diet
  • vegetarian food
  • veganism

Finding Journal Articles and other Publications

Find reputable journal articles in ProQuest Central. This collection of resources includes several environmental collections such as Environmental Science Database.

A great way to narrow your results is to combine search terms. For example:

• "vegan diet"
• vegan diet risks
• vegetarian diet
• vegan vegetarian​
• "plant based diet"​

Quick tip: Using quotation marks is another way of narrowing your search results. The quotation marks tell the database to look for the words closer together (as a phrase):

• "vegetarian diet" children

Need more?

You can also try expanding your research by using the box on the Search page of this research guide. This box, powered by EBSCO Discovery Service, will expand the resources beyond just ProQuest Central and include everything EBSCO and our other databases has to offer.

Quick tip: To refine your search results even further, be sure to use the various limiters in all our database. These limiters include, but are not limited to, publication date range and source type.