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Human Nutrition: Healthy Options for Life provides all the essentials information students need regarding foods and nutrients, and how the body uses nutrients in relation to both health and chronic diseases. The authors provide a unique focus on the linkages between nutrients deficits and/or excesses and personal health. It helps students fully understand epidemiology, with a clear focus on the concept of the multiple risk factors involved in diseases, such as diet, heredity, and lifestyle factors. Human Nutrition: Healthy Options for Life empowers students to become more sophisticated in their own nutritional health behavior and guides them in determining appropriate serving sizes and food choices that promote health and prevent diet-related diseases.

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Professor Anderson has been on the faculty of the School of Public Health in the Department of Nutrition since 1972. Prior teaching positions were held at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Bradford (MA) Junior College. He has a Bachelor’s degree in History from Williams College, a Master of Arts in Teaching degree from Harvard University, a Masters’degree in Biology from Boston University, and a Doctoral degree in Physical Biology (biochemistry) from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. His lifetime research has centered on the linkages among nutrients, hormones, lifestyle factors, and bone health. He has published several books and written more than 150 scientific articles. In addition, he has taught nutrition courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels and advanced seminars in Nutrition Topics for doctoral students. Over the years, he has developed broad interests in healthy eating patterns and the prevention or delay of chronic diseases and co-wrote a book on the Mediterranean Way of Eating. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have lived in Chapel Hill for over 40 years. Their three sons live with their families in Gunnison, Colorado, Chapel Hill, and Arlington, Virginia. Dr. Root worked as a research technician and research support specialist at Cornell University for 22 years after receiving his BS degree from there in Biochemistry. His MS is in Environmental Toxicology and his Ph.D. is in Nutrition from Cornell. He spent 12 years with a startup company in Durham North Carolina, BioSignia, Inc., developing statistical models of chronic disease onset for the use by health professionals in communicating risk and preventive strategies. Since 2008 he has been teaching and doing research at Appalachian State University where he directs the Graduate Program in Nutrition. His research interests are in the nutrition of vascular diseases and their risk factors. He currently lives in Boone, NC with his wife Constance of over 40 years. They have 3 children and seven grandchildren.

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