Nutrition For Healthy Living PDF

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Completely revised and up-to-date with MyPlate, Healthy People 2020 and Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010, Nutrition for Healthy Living takes an innovative approach to introductory nutrition for non-science majors. With its unique, concise organization and a distinct focus on consumerism, this engaging, fun-to-read text will provide students with the scientific foundation needed to make informed nutritional decisions well beyond the classroom.

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• Paperback: 648 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 3 edition (January 5, 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0073522759
• ISBN-13: 978-0073522753
• Product Dimensions: 0.9 x 9.5 x 10.5 inches
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Nutrition For Healthy Living PDF

Nutrition For Healthy Living

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Completely revised and up-to-date with MyPlate, Healthy People 2020 and Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010, Nutrition for Healthy Living takes an innovative approach to introductory nutrition for non-science majors. With its unique, concise organization and a distinct focus on consumerism, this engaging, fun-to-read text will provide students with the scientific foundation needed to make informed nutritional decisions well beyond the classroom.

Users who purchase Connect Plus receive access to the full online ebook version of the textbook.

Table of contents

1. The Basics of Nutrition2. Evaluating Nutrition Information3. Planning Nutritious Diets4. Body Basics5. Carbohydrates6. Fats and Other Lipids7. Proteins8. Vitamins9. Water and Minerals10. Energy Balance and Weight Control11. Nutrition for Physically-Active Lifestyles12. Food Safety Concerns13. Nutrition for a Lifetime

Nutrition for Better Living is really an excellent, comprehensive resource for basic information about all aspects of nutrition, designed for the beginning level student. As you might expect from a textbook it begins with the basics of nutrition then moves into more specific areas like physiology, dietary habits, individual analysis of nutrients, and so on. The text is heavily supported with plenty of graphics and charts, although sometimes they are superfluous (for example, pictures of different fruits as if you didn't know what the difference between an apple and a pineapple was) they do make the text look nice and are really helpful when you get into areas like anatomy and the digestive system.

The information inside, although basic, is very thorough and useful. The book is written by a dietitian from a medical establishment dietitian's point of view. Alternative methods of nutrition management which don't comply with the accepted norm are at best questioned, at worst sneered at. While this is sometimes justified, it also means things like nutritional supplements and holistic nutrition are lumped together with late night weight loss infomercials. There is also a heavy reliance on current governmental nutrition management reports and programs like the unwieldy website ChooseMyPlate. This material doesn't add anything to the study of nutrition and seems to be there just as an obvious place to update for the next edition of the book (making all others obsolete, of course). Fortunately most of that is confined to the first few chapters.

This is a fairly heavy, dense paperback book, about the size of an old LP. Like almost every textbook it is, of course, overpriced.