By Eric Rumsey, Janna Lawrence and Xiaomei Gu<\/p>\n
As we\u2019ve written <\/span>earlier<\/span><\/a>, the way that nutrition, food and diet subjects have been arranged in the MeSH tree explosion system has made it tricky to do comprehensive, all-inclusive searching. This has been the case because the three subjects have been in different places in the MeSH tree structure, so that each of them had to be searched separately, and then combined together to cover the subject. It\u2019s likely that many people have searched only for \u201cnutrition,\u201d since that seems to them like the most general term to cover the field. By doing this, however, they have been missing citations on \u201cfood\u201d and \u201cdiet,\u201d which actually are much larger explosions in the MeSH tree structure than \u201cnutrition.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n We are happy to report that the newly released MeSH changes for 2016 do have a new explosion that goes a long way to fixing the problem:<\/p>\n Diet, Food, and Nutrition [<\/span>MeSH page<\/span><\/a>] This is a great advance! It\u2019s no longer necessary to search nutrition, food and diet subjects because they\u2019re now together in the new explosion –\u00a0 Click here<\/a> to see the results of\u00a0 a search of the new explosion.<\/span><\/p>\n
\n<\/span>\u2026 Beverages +
\n<\/span>\u2026 Food +
\n<\/span>\u2026 Nutritional Physiological Phenomena +
\n<\/span>\u2026 \u2026 Diet+<\/span><\/p>\n