Food and Nutrition: Books

Food choices : nutrients and nourishment -- Nutrition guidelines : tools for a healthful diet -- Complementary nutrition : functional foods and dietary supplements -- The human body : from food to fuel -- Carbohydrates : simple sugars and complex chains -- Spotlight on alcohol -- Lipids : not just fat -- Proteins and amino acids : function follows form -- Spotlight on metabolism -- Energy balance and weight management : finding your equilibrium -- Vitamins : vital keys to health -- Water and minerals : the ocean within -- Sports nutrition : eating for peak performance -- Spotlight on eating disorders -- Lifecycle : maternal & infant nutrition -- Lifecycle : from childhood through adulthood -- Food safety and technology : microbial threats and genetic engineering -- World view of nutrition : the faces of global malnutrition

Food, Nutrition and Health takes a holistic approach to the study of food, nutrition and the lifecycle. It canvases the full spectrum of issues relevant to food, nutrition and health, while providing a clear framework for understanding and working with nutrition science by gradually building up a knowledge base and setting it in practice contexts

I. Conceptual framework -- Defining healthy and intuitive eating -- Why we eat the way we do: the role of personal and external factors -- II. The healthy student approach -- Rationale for a three-pillar approach -- Pillar I: Intuitive eating and nutrition -- Pillar II: Healthy physical activity -- Pillar III: Mindfulness, self-care, and emotional regulation -- III. School-based interventions and policies -- Preventive intervention: media literacy, body image, body tolerance, and self-regulated eating -- Screening, assessing, and supporting students with eating and body image problems -- Federal school food policies and professional guidelines --

Food choices and human health -- Nutrition tools: standards and guidelines -- The remarkable bosy -- The carbohydrates: sugar, starch, glycogen, and fiber -- The lipids: fats, oils, phospholipids, and sterols -- The proteins and amino acids -- The 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

Food choices and human health -- Nutrition tools : standards and guidelines.

A taste of nutritional anthropology -- The quest for food : evolutionary and comparative perspectives -- Why do we eat what we eat? -- Too little and too much : nutrition in the contemporary world

"Focusing on nutrition and nutritional therapy from the nurses' perspective, Nutritional Foundations and Clinical Applications: A Nursing Approach, 7th Edition takes a wellness approach based on health promotion and primary prevention It offers guidelines with a human, personal touch, using first-hand accounts to show how nutrition principles apply to patients in real-world practice. This new edition incorporates the most current guidelines and information on key nutrition topics throughout as well as expanded coverage on the role of inflammation in common disease.

Describes nutritional healing and wellness from the nurse's perspective, covering dietary guidelines with a humanistic, personal touch, using first-hand accounts to show how nutrition principles apply to patients in real-world practice, updated with the most current guidelines and the latest research on nutrition. Written by noted educators Michele Grodner, Sylvia Escott-Stump, and Suzie Dorner, this leading nutrition text promotes healthy diets and shows how nutrition may be used in treating and controlling diseases and disorders

Nutrition & You provides students with a personalized approach to understanding nutrition, teaching them to become informed consumers of nutrition information.

An Overview of Nutrition Highlight -- 1: Nutrition Information and Misinformation -- 2. Planning a Healthy Diet Highlight 2: Vegetarian Diets -- 3. Digestion, Absorption and Transport Highlight 3: Common Digestive Problems -- 4. The Carbohydrates: Sugars, Starches and Fibers Highlight 4: Carbs, kCalories and Controversies -- 5. The Lipids: Triglycerides, Phospholipids and Sterols Highlight 5: High-Fat Foods -- Friend or Foe? -- 6. Protein: Amino Acids Highlight 6: Nutritional Genomics 7. Energy Metabolism Highlight -- 7: Alcohol in the Body -- 8. Energy Balance and Body Composition Highlight 8: Eating Disorders -- 9. Weight Management: Overweight, Obesity and Underweight Highlight etc.

The leading challenges in public health-ranging from rising obesity rates to the fast-growing population of older adults-are complex and cannot be solved effectively by any one silver bullet or any one sector in isolation. Instead, their solutions require collaborative actions of many sectors, including industry, government, academia, and nongovernmental organizations.

There may be no greater source of anxiety for Americans today than the question of what to eat and drink. Are eggs the perfect protein, or are they cholesterol bombs? Is red wine good for my heart or bad for my liver? Will pesticides, additives, and processed foods kill me? Here with some very rare and very welcome advice is food historian Harvey Levenstein: Stop worrying! In Fear of Food Levenstein reveals the people and interests who have created and exploited these worries, causing an extraordinary number of Americans to allow fear to trump pleasure in dictating their food choices.

Food and Nutrition By Don Ross has been written so as to serve the purpose of equipping readers with all that entails the science of handling food in a technical and scientific manner, and retaining its nutritive qualities. the book begins with an all-round look into the intricacies of food science-what import it carries, the techniques and principles underlying it, the development of foods, the disciplines and aspects of food involved, etc.

Part I Why What We Eat Matters: Farm to Fork -- 1 Framing Today's Food and Nutrition Issues -- What's this book about? -- Who should read this book? Is a science background necessary? -- How do traditional and contemporary diets differ around the world? -- Who runs the food system? -- Who produces and provides our food? -- What are the major food and nutrition challenges impacting human and environmental health? -- How can we solve food and nutrition problems? Revolution, or evolution? -- 2 Global Food and Nutrition Challenges: People and Planet -- Who is affected by hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition? -- What is obesity, and why is it a health problem? --

Consumers rely on food labels for all kinds of economic, ethical, and lifesaving information. What are the ingredients in this product? Does it conform to kosher or halal standards? Is it organic or free of genetically modified ingredients? Has it been ethically produced and traded? However, as essential as this information is to consumers, many people find themselves overwhelmed, confused, or misinformed by food labeling practices. This edited volume examines nutritional, organic, GMO, fair trade, cage free, and cultural food labeling practices.

This book provides an approachable introduction to food labels. While aimed primarily at teens and young adults, it is a valuable tool for anyone who wants to better understand what food labels are really saying and make healthy food choices.How accurate is the Nutrition Facts Panel, and who decides what information goes on it? Why don't all foods have nutrition or ingredient information? How can you tell if a product is organic, non-GMO, or ethically produced? Are words such as'all-natural'and'light'on packaging meaningful or just clever marketing?

Introduction -- The food package environment -- The regulatory environment -- Consumers' use of nutrition information and product choices -- Consumer use and understanding of front-of-package labeling systems -- Effects of food package information on consumer preferences, choices, and processing -- A model front-of-package symbol system including criteria for evaluating nutrients -- Promotion, evaluation, and monitoring for front-of-package symbol systems -- Recommendations.

Healthy Food: Perspectives, Availability and Consumption first explores the pathological form of healthy eating, orthorexia nervosa. Although orthorexia nervosa cannot be found in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, important findings suggest that orthorexia nervosa should receive wider scientific and public attention. Additionally, the current literature regarding the effects of healthy foods and early feeding practices in childhood is explored in the context of the primordial prevention of non-communicable diseases and their risk factors

Multicultural Handbook of Food, Nutrition and Dietetics is the must have practical resource for dietitians, nutritionists and students working with both well settled but also recently migrated ethnic groups. Written by a team of authors drawn from the British Dietetic Association's Specialist Multicultural Nutrition Group the book provides in-depth information to equip the reader in the provision of nutrition advice to minority groups.