It's All about Nutrition: Saving the Health of Americans

by David Bissonnette

Overview

It’s All about Nutrition is an introductory textbook designed specifically to capture the interest of general education students in nutrition. Students will want to read this textbook in its entirety, as David Bissonnette draws them into a more thoughtful study of the field of nutrition. He paints a backdrop describing the origins of our current dietary practices, nutrition within the history of human health, the emergence of the science of nutrition, the history of the U.S. food industry, and the prevalence of malnutrition in the United States during the 1930s. Within these historical contexts, It’s All about Nutrition describes vitamin and mineral deficiencies, the obesity epidemic, family nutrition, chronic disease, and world hunger to offer readers a comprehensive look at the field of nutrition in the United States.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761863809
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/01/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	12 MB
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About the Author

David Bissonnette is a registered dietitian and associate professor of nutrition at Minnesota State University, Mankato. He has held academic positions at St. Francis Xavier University and McGill University in Canada.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 THE ORIGINS OF OUR CURRENT NUTRITION PRACTICES

CHAPTER 2 HISTORY OF NUTRITION IN HUMAN HEALTH

CHAPTER 3 THE EMERGENCE OF THE SCIENCE OF NUTRITION

CHAPTER 4 VITAMIN&MINERAL DEFICIENCIES

CHAPTER 5 EMERGENCE OF THE FOOD INDUSTRY

CHAPTER 6 FAMILY AND CHILD NUTRITION

CHAPTER 7 FOOD SAFETY—MODERN CHALLENGE AND CUMBERSOME NIGHTMARE

CHAPTER 8 NUTRITION RESEARCH IN THE MODERN AGE

CHAPTER 9 NUTRITION AND CHRONIC DISEASE

CHAPTER 10 THE OBESITY CRISIS

CHAPTER 11 NUTRITION AND WORLD HUNGER

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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