Nutrition : concepts and controversies / Frances Sienkiewicz Sizer, Ellie Whitney.

By: Webb, Frances Sizer, 2006Contributor(s): Whitney, Eleanor NossMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Australia ; Belmont, CA : Thomson Wadsworth, 2006Edition: 10th edDescription: 1 v. in various pagings : ill. ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)ISBN: 0534645062 (Student edition); 0534406726 (Instructor's ed.); 0495011835 (International student ed.)Subject(s): Nutrition | FoodDDC classification: 613.2 LOC classification: QP141 .S59 2006
Contents:
Food choices and human health -- Nutrition tools, standards and guidelines -- Remarkable body -- Carbohydrates, sugar, starch, glycogen, and fiber -- Lipids, fats, oils, phospholipids, and sterols -- Proteins and amino acids -- Vitamins -- Water and minerals -- Energy balance and healthy body weight -- Nutrients, physical activity, and the body's responses -- Diet and health -- Food safety and food technology -- Life cycle nutrition, mother and infant -- Child, teen, and older adult -- Hunger and the global environment -- Appendixes: Table of food composition; Canadiana, recommendations, choice system, and labels; Aids to calculations; U.S. food exchange system; Nutrition resources; Notes; Answers to self check questions; Physical activity and energy requirements; Food patterns to meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 -- Glossary.
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Includes index and bibliographical references.

Food choices and human health -- Nutrition tools, standards and guidelines -- Remarkable body -- Carbohydrates, sugar, starch, glycogen, and fiber -- Lipids, fats, oils, phospholipids, and sterols -- Proteins and amino acids -- Vitamins -- Water and minerals -- Energy balance and healthy body weight -- Nutrients, physical activity, and the body's responses -- Diet and health -- Food safety and food technology -- Life cycle nutrition, mother and infant -- Child, teen, and older adult -- Hunger and the global environment -- Appendixes: Table of food composition; Canadiana, recommendations, choice system, and labels; Aids to calculations; U.S. food exchange system; Nutrition resources; Notes; Answers to self check questions; Physical activity and energy requirements; Food patterns to meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 -- Glossary.

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