Full Description
Feel confident in your 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. It discusses relevant topics that are important to students such as the diet and wellness industry, the safety of supplements, genetically modified foods and 'keto' and 'paleo' diets. Learn how to sort fact from fiction in the current information age. The text is available with the MindTap learning platform, which offers self-quizzing and activities to propel your learning from memorization to mastery.
Contents
1. Food Choices and Human Health. 2. Nutrition Tools: Standards and Guidelines. 3. The Remarkable Body. 4. The Carbohydrates: Sugar, Starch, Glycogen, and Fiber. 5. The Lipids: Fats, Oils, Phospholipids, and Sterols. 6. The Proteins and Amino Acids. 7. The Vitamins. 8. Water and Minerals. 9. Energy Balance and Healthy Body Weight. 10. Performance Nutrition. 11. Nutrition and Chronic Diseases. 12. Food Safety and Food Technology. 13. Life Cycle Nutrition: Mother and Infant. 14. Child, Teen, and Older Adult. 15. Hunger and the Future of Food. Appendix A: Chemical Structures of Carbohydrates, Lipids, Amino Acids, and Peptides. Appendix B: World Health Organization Nutrition Intake Guidelines. Appendix C: Aids to Calculations. Appendix D: Food Lists for Diabetes and Weight Management. Appendix E: Eating Patterns to Meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Appendix F: Reference Notes. Appendix G: Answers to Chapter Questions. Appendix H: Physical Activity Levels and Energy Requirements.
