Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies

by Frances Sizer, Ellie Whitney

Overview

Nourish your mind and body with NUTRITION: CONCEPTS AND CONTROVERSIES. More conversational than a pure-science text, this book explores the essentials of nutrition—including how the body breaks down and uses food, food safety, sports nutrition and special nutritional needs throughout the human life cycle—and asks you to weigh in on relevant debates, such as world hunger, chronic diseases, dietary guidelines and eating patterns. Available with the MindTap learning platform, the 15th edition also offers self-quizzing and activities to propel your learning from memorization to mastery.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781337906371
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	01/01/2019
Series:	MindTap Course List
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	880
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 10.70(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Frances Sienkiewicz Sizer, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A., attended Florida State University, where, in 1980, she received her BS and, in 1982, her MS in nutrition. She is certified as a charter Fellow of the American Dietetic Association and Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She is a founding member and vice—president of Nutrition and Health Associates, an information and resource center in Tallahassee, Florida, that maintains an ongoing bibliographic database tracking research in more than 1,000 topic areas of nutrition. Her textbooks include LIFE CHOICES: HEALTH CONCEPTS AND STRATEGIES; MAKING LIFE CHOICES; THE FITNESS TRIAD: MOTIVATION, TRAINING, AND NUTRITION; and others. She is a primary author of NUTRITION INTERACTIVE, an instructional college—level nutrition game—teaching resource. In addition to writing, she has lectured at universities and at national and regional conferences and serves in several local hunger and homelessness relief organization in her community.

Ellie Whitney grew up in New York City and received her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English and Biology at Harvard and Washington Universities. She taught at both Florida State University and Florida A&M University, wrote numerous newspaper columns on environmental matters for the Tallahassee Democrat, and coauthored almost a dozen college textbooks on nutrition, health, and related topics, many of which repeatedly reappear as new editions. She spent three decades exploring outdoor Florida and studying its ecology, and then co—wrote PRICELESS FLORIDA: NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS AND NATIVE SPECIES. Now retired, and more concerned about climate change than any other issue, she volunteers full—time for the nonpartisan national nonprofit Citizens Climate Lobby.

Table of Contents

1. Food Choices and Human Health. 2. Nutrition Tools—Standards and Guidelines. 3. The Remarkable Body. 4. The Carbohydrates: Sugar, Starch, Glycogen, and Fiber. 5. The Lipids: Fats, Oils, Phospholipids, and Sterols. 6. The Proteins and Amino Acids. 7. The Vitamins. 8. Water and Minerals. 9. Energy Balance and Healthy Body Weight. 10. Performance Nutrition. 11. Diet and Health. 12. Food Safety and Food Technology. 13. Life Cycle Nutrition: Mother and Infant. 14. Child, Teen, and Older Adult. 15. Hunger and the Future of Food. Appendix A. Table of Food Composition. Appendix B. World Health Organization Nutrition Recommendations and Guidelines. Appendix C. Aids to Calculations. Appendix D. Food Lists for Diabetes and Weight Management. Appendix E. Food Patterns to Meet the Food Intake Patterns. Appendix F. Notes. Appendix G. Answers to Chapter Questions. Appendix H. Physical Activity Levels and Energy Requirements. Appendix I. Chemical Structures of Carbohydrates, Lipids, Amino Acids, and Peptides.

Editorial Reviews

This book is broken down into chapters on major nutrients, such as carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals, and lipids, and nutrition throughout the life span, from in-utero, to childhood, adulthood and old age. Sizer, author of several nutrition text books, and Whitney, a researcher and consultant in the nutrition, health, and environmental fields, also include chapters on energy balance and body weight, physical fitness, food safety and technology, and the global environment. Each chapter includes sections on consumerism, maintaining fitness for life, nutrition on the Internet, and controversies in nutrition research. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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