Make better food choices and live a healthier life with NUTRITION: CONCEPTS AND CONTROVERSIES. More conversational than a pure-science text, this book explores the essentials of nutrition--including how the body breaks down and uses food, food safety, sports nutrition and special nutritional needs throughout the human life cycle--and asks you to weigh in on relevant debates, such as world hunger, chronic diseases, dietary guidelines and eating patterns. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.
Provides a comprehensive guide to every aspect of food and health, covering diets and nutritional requirements for special groups and ages and sensible approaches to weight control
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Category Nutrition Subcategory Food Chemistry Contact Editor: N. Frabotta
Nutrition Basics helps readers understand and trace the history of nutrition, explore the science behind it, and discuss controversies from an objective viewpoint.
Following its predecessors, this sixth edition is relevant to any student or practitioner interested in how diet influences our health, including in the fields of nutrition, dietetics, medicine and public health.
In its fourth edition, this text continues the tradition of incorporating new discoveries and methods related to this important area of research Generating and analyzing data that summarize dietary intake and its association with disease ...
She subsequently became a nutrition consultant and educator as well as an advocate for changing not only how people approach their own eating habits and health care but how they view food manufacturers, school cafeterias, pharmaceutical ...
Used in conjunction with any nutrition text, this manual helps students better understand the effects of their diet and activity habits on their overall health.
Completely up-to-date, this newly revised Fourth Edition provides the most comprehensive nutrition and diet therapy dictionary available for health care professionals.
... the US National Academy of Sciences convene a study on ''Toxicological Assessment of Perchlorate Ingestion.'' Occurrence in Food Although the primary concerns from perchlorate contamination result from drinking water consumption, ...