Lesson 5: The Gale Virtual Reference Library

Lesson 5: The Gale Virtual Reference Library
After clicking on the title list I chose The Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine. I researched leukemia, acute. We have a little four-year-old from our church, in the children's hospital in Minneapolis, fighting this childhood cancer. (It is a strange coincidence that after praying all of this time, that as of today the only thing that would save him is a miracle. I found out in my research that the survival rate is very low even with the bone marrow transplant like he just had.)
 The information is there for you, whether you are doing a research paper or just want a brief summary of the item you looked up. I briefly read through the symptoms, causes, ages, survival rate, treatment  etc.  I also went back and looked at chronic leukemia and at several other books. I liked the way this is set up and found it very easy to use.
I searched for zinc. There were many books about zinc but not as many that would give you foods containing zinc. I used The Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing. The food having the most zinc is oysters. Sorry but I passed on that one. I would eat the whole grains, beans and nuts, however their zinc absorption is reduced by their high fiber content. That leaves beef, chicken, turkey, milk, cheese,yogurt and pure maple syrup.
I used the "listen" feature to read part of my research on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I found this was easy to follow, along with the written material. This option would be an advantage for anyone who has a reading or vision problem, or it could be downloaded to finish listening to at a later time.  I do like the GVRL and hope I can find time to use it in the future.