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Title
The Nutrition and Food Web Archive
Description
As an undergraduate student majoring in nutrition, I would use the web to find information for my many projects I was assigned. However, I found it quite frustrating because I was not very web savvy at the time and rarely could find content-specific information. Websites seemed to just cover a broad range of topics, but failed to go to the depth that I needed. Paying for a premium service was also out of the question because I had little money and several school expenses to cover.
Once I entered graduate school the web replaced my books and became my main source of information for class-work and projects. At this level of education, I soon realized that the need for content-specific information was essential. I needed to get to it fast and needed it to be organized. As my web skills improved, I started to stumble upon some really useful websites and began building a collection. I also started to keep track of the projects and assignments I had done in the past for my classes. What I found was a hefty pile in My Documents folder of things I forgot about completely, but later became useful with some of the new projects or jobs I had done.
What caused me to develop the Nutrition and Food Web Archive (NAFWA) was my willingness to help others and to provide useful and scientifically-relevant resources in one place. I wanted to develop a community environment where individuals who share the same interest can find information and share resources. Nutrition is a very demanding field and our job roles are not always clearly defined. We must use sound judgment and relay messages that are scientifically valid to a population that may not have the background we have. Maintaining these standards is essential for others to view our profession as a respectable one and to keep it respectable within itself.
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