Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Joan Salge Blake
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Dimensions:   Width: 27.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   1.284kg
ISBN:  

9780321602473

ISBN 10:   0321602471
Pages:   624
Publication Date:   12 February 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

Table of 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

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Joan Salge Blake, MS, RD, LDN Boston University   Joan Salge Blake is a Clinical Associate Professor and the Dietetics Internship Director at Boston University’s College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (Sargent College). She received her MS from Boston University and teaches both graduate and undergraduate nutrition courses. She has also been a guest lecturer at the Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine.   Joan is a member of the American Dietetic Association and the Massachusetts Dietetic Association (MDA) and has been a presenter and Presiding Officer at both the ADA Annual Meeting and MDA Annual Convention. She has been a recipient of the Outstanding Dietitian (2009), Outstanding Dietetic Educator (2007) and Young Dietitian of the Year awards.  She also received the Whitney Powers Excellence in Teaching Award from Boston University. Joan is an ADA National Media Spokesperson and conducts over 100 media interviews annually. Her nutrition segments can be seen regularly on Fox25 TV, Boston.  

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