Visualizing Nutrition: Everyday ChoicesThis comprehensive book provides nutritionists with an easy-to-understand overview of key concepts in the field. The material is presented along with vivid images from the National Geographic Society, illustrations, and diagrams. Numerous pedagogical features are integrated throughout the chapters, including Health and Disease, Wellness, and Making Sense of the Information that make the material easier to understand. By following a visual approach, nutritionists will quickly learn the material in an engaging way. |
Contents
Food Choices and Nutrient Intake | 4 |
Nutrition in Health and Disease | 12 |
From Meals to Molecules | 54 |
The Digestive System | 60 |
Digestion in Health and Disease | 71 |
An Overview of Metabolism | 80 |
Carbohydrates in Our Food | 88 |
Carbohydrate Functions | 97 |
Nutrition Fitness and Physical Activity | 330 |
Physical Activity Fitness and Health | 332 |
Food and Drink to Optimize Performance | 351 |
Nutrition During Pregnancy and Infancy | 364 |
Nutritional Needs During Pregnancy | 372 |
Factors That Increase the Risks Associated | 379 |
Nutrition for Infants | 387 |
Nutrition from 1 to 100 | 400 |
Heart Disease | 106 |
WHAT SHOULD I EAT? Carbohydrates | 112 |
Fats Phospholipids | 118 |
Absorbing and Transporting Lipids | 128 |
Lipids in Health and Disease | 134 |
Meeting Protein Needs | 169 |
Vitamins | 184 |
Meeting Vitamin Needs | 192 |
The FatSoluble Vitamins | 212 |
Vitamin D | 218 |
Better? | 247 |
Zinc | 273 |
Manganese Molybdenum and Other Trace | 280 |
Body Weight and Health | 290 |
What Determines Body Size and Shape? | 302 |
Managing Body Weight | 308 |
Eating Disorders | 317 |
How Safe Is Our Food Supply? | 436 |
Pathogens in Food | 442 |
What Bug Has You Down? | 449 |
Biotechnology | 465 |
Feeding the World | 474 |
The Two Faces of Malnutrition | 476 |
Causes of Hunger in the United States | 484 |
Additional DRI Tables | 501 |
Glossary | 563 |
References | 569 |
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Obesity 139 | 594 |
Meeting Lipid Needs 139 | 8 |
From | 40 |
Blood | 88 |
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