Personal Nutrition,
12th Edition

1. The Basics of Understanding Nutrition. Spotlight: How Do You Tell If It's Nutrition Fact or Nutrition Fiction?
2. The Pursuit of a Healthy Diet. Spotlight: Food Choices and the Environment.
3. Anatomy for Nutrition's Sake. Spotlight: Gut Feelings--Common Digestive Problems.
4. The Carbohydrates: Sugar, Starch, and Fiber. Spotlight: Understanding Diabetes: Strategies for Prevention.
5. The Lipids: Fats and Oils. Spotlight: Diet and Heart Disease.
6. The Proteins and Amino Acids. Spotlight: Plant-Based Eating Patterns.
7. The Vitamins: A Functional Approach. Spotlight: Nutrition and Cancer Prevention.
8. The Minerals and Water: A Functional Approach. Spotlight: Osteoporosis--The Silent Stalker of the Bones.
9. Impact of Fluids and Beverages on Nutritional Health. Spotlight: Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
10. Weight Management. Spotlight: The Eating Disorders.
11. Nutrition for Fueling Fitness and Sport. Spotlight: Nutrition Supplements and Sport Performance--Help or Hype?
12. The Life Cycle: Conception through the Later Years. Spotlight: Making the Most of Nutrition in the College Years.
13. Food Safety and the Global Food Supply. Spotlight: Global Food Insecurity.
Appendix A: Aids to Calculations, Daily Values (DV) for Food Labels, and the USDA Healthy Food Patterns.
Appendix B: Body Mass Index, Key Physical Activity Guidelines for Adults, and Dietary Reference Intakes (DRI).
Appendix C: Answers to end-of-chapter review questions.
Glossary.
Index.

• Marie A. Boyle

  Dr. Marie Boyle received her B.A. in psychology from the University of Southern Maine and her M.S. and Ph.D. in nutrition from Florida State University. She is author of PERSONAL NUTRITION and COMMUNITY NUTRITION IN ACTION. Dr. Boyle is a Professor in the Foods and Nutrition Department at Saint Elizabeth University in Morristown, New Jersey. She also teaches online graduate courses in applied nutrition at the University of New England in Portland, Maine. Her other professional activities include membership in the American Public Health Association, the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior. She also serves as editor-in-chief of the "Journal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition" from Taylor & Francis Publishers.

• EACH CHAPTER BEGINS AND ENDS WITH COMPREHENSION AND RETENTION TOOLS: Chapters start with the Ask Yourself feature where students work through true-or-false questions that spark curiosity and preview key concepts. Chapters end with an In Review section that revisits the chapter’s learning objectives with targeted study questions.

• PRACTICAL TIPS: Eat Well, Be Well features encourage students to make good health and diet a priority, providing practical tips they can apply now as well as sustain throughout their lives. Topics include Never Say Diet and Make Over Your Plate -- Reshaping Your Protein Choices for Health.

• "NUTRITION IN ACTION" ESSAYS ON CURRENT TOPICS: Relevant, magazine-style essays address topics such as fast food, smart snacking, feeding the microbiome, food allergies, dietary supplements and medicinal herbs, diet and blood pressure, promoting healthy weight in children and aging well with physical activity. They reflect the latest issues in the field. For example, Carbohydrates -- Friend or Foe? helps consumers choose healthful carbohydrates while making sense of the carbohydrate debate.

• "SPOTLIGHT" FEATURES TIE CURRENT RESEARCH TO CHAPTER TOPICS: These reader-friendly features encourage critical thinking, in a question and answer format, often by addressing concerns many students have about nutrition such as common digestive problems, food choices and the environment, making the most of nutrition in the college years, and the pros and cons of using supplements to enhance athletic performance.

• "SCORECARD" QUIZZES ENCOURAGE APPLICATION AND EVALUATION: The quizzes in each chapter invite students to compare their own knowledge and behavior to proven nutritional principles and guidelines for healthy eating, equipping them with insight they can personalize and immediately put into practice. Topics include Rate Your Fats and Health IQ, Healthy Weight, The Longevity Game and Estimate Your Protein Intake.

• THE LATEST RESEARCH AND GUIDELINES: The Savvy Diner features offer food-selection and preparation suggestions for healthy eating and reinforce recommendations made in the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Topics include buying healthy foods on a limited budget, incorporating whole grains into the diet, maintaining a healthy weight goal when dining out and an eating dietary pattern for longevity.

• RECOGNIZE HEALTHY FOODS THAT BOOST NUTRIENT INTAKE: The Make Every Bite Count feature helps learners recognize foods that can increase the intake of essential nutrients, providing a healthy nudge to add certain nutrient-dense foods/food groups (e.g. berries, leafy greens, yogurt, whole grains, nuts and seeds) to the diet and explains why this step is beneficial, based on research.

• APPLICATION AND PRACTICE: The Try This feature gives readers a chance to practice what they have learned. For example, Chapter 1 shows the steps for determining the number of calories consumed from the grams of carbohydrate, fat and protein in a food.

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