A Personal Approach. Paperback + Connect, McGraw
Nutrition Essentials: A Personal Approach has a consumer-oriented focus, providing practical tips for applying concepts such as ways to prepare foods to make them safer and healthier, and ways to become a savvy consumer of nutrition-related information. It also provides non-nutrition majors with the basic scientific principles of nutrition in a highly visual, engaging context.
1. Food Is More Than Something to Eat
2. How to Become an Informed Consumer
3. Making More Nutritious Choices
4. How Food Becomes You
5. Carbohydrates: Fuel and Fiber
6. Lipids: Focusing on Fats and Cholesterol
7. Proteins: Life’s Building Blocks
8. Vitamins: Nutrients That Multitask
9. Key Minerals, Water, and the Nonnutrient Alcohol
10. Nutrition for a Healthy Weight and Fit Body
11. Nutrition for Your Life, Environment, and World