Main description:

Nutrition & You: Core Concepts for Good Health is an exciting new title in the introductory consumer nutrition market. Drawing on the strengths cultivated in Joan Salge Blake,s majors and non-majors editions, this new text addresses the needs of the growing consumer market through a focused review of key nutrition topics and a hands-on, lively approach to useful information for everyday good nutrition and health. Through the use of short, focused concepts rather than longer chapters, this text provides you with practical information and engaging tools that help you make positive changes in your nutrition and overall health, while covering the elements essential to a consumer-oriented introductory nutrition course. It exceeds key competitors in the market through its targeted content, useful features, lively readability, and accessible design-all intended to engage you and encourage you to apply this new knowledge to your daily life.

Contents:

1. Why You Eat What You Eat 2. What is Nutrition? 3. Nutrition Claims: Sorting Fact from Fiction 4. Tools for Healthy Eating 5. Food Labels: Cracking the Code 6. Digestion: How Food Becomes Nutrition 7. Carbohydrates: Facts to Know 8. Carbohydrates: Foods to Eat 9. Diabetes: A Growing Epidemic 10. Fats: Facts to Know 11. Fats: Foods to Eat 12. Eat to Beat Heart Disease 13. Proteins: Facts to Know 14. Proteins: Foods to Eat 15. Vegetarian Diets: What to Eat When You Don,t Eat Meat 16. Vitamins: Small but Powerful 17. Minerals: Essential Elements 18. Water: Facts to Know, Fluids to Drink 19. Alcohol: The Real Story 20. Healthy Weight: What Is It and How Do You Maintain It? 21. Overweight and Obesity: Fighting the Factors that Put On Weight 22. Underweight and Disordered Eating: When Eating Enough is a Challenge 23. Fighting Cancer with a Knife and Fork 24. Focus on Fitness 25. Eat to Compete 26. Supplements and Functional Foods: Are They Right for You? 27. Food Safety 28. Food Insecurity 29. Life Cycle Nutrition: Pregnancy Through Infancy 30. Life Cycle Nutrition: Childhood Through the Later Years Appendices Glossary Index Credits