Nutrition: Everyday Choices provides readers with the decision-making skills necessary to navigate the myriad of choices they will face in promoting their good health and in preventing disease.

Nutrition: Everyday Choices follows a critical-thinking approach and provides a solid underpinning of the process of science to help the reader become a knowledgeable consumer when faced with diverse information about emerging diseases such a SARS, biotech foods and gene therapy.

Contents

1. Nutrition: Choices for Health
2. Guidelines for a Healthy Diet
3. The Digestive System: From Meals to Molecules
4. Carbohydrates: Sugars, Starches, and Fibers
5. Lipids: Fats and Oils
6. Proteins and Amino Acids
7. Managing Your Weight
8. The Vitamins
9. Water and Minerals
10. Meeting Our Needs: Food, Fortified Food, and Supplements
11. Nutrition, Fitness, and Physical Activity
12. Nutrition, Pregnancy, and Infants
13. Nutrition from 2 to 102
14. How Safe Is Our Food Supply?
15. Feeding the World

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