Feel confident in your food choices and live a healthier life with "Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies, Cengage International Edition." 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. It discusses relevant topics that are important to students such as the diet and wellness industry, the safety of supplements, genetically modified foods and “keto” and “paleo” diets. Learn how to sort fact from fiction in the current information age. The text is available with the MindTap learning platform, which offers self-quizzing and activities to propel your learning from memorization to mastery.
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. Nutrition and Chronic Diseases.
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: Chemical Structures of Carbohydrates, Lipids, Amino Acids, and Peptides.
Appendix B: World Health Organization Nutrition Intake Guidelines.
Appendix C: Aids to Calculations.
Appendix D: Food Lists for Diabetes and Weight Management.
Appendix E: Eating Patterns to Meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Appendix F: Reference Notes.
Appendix G: Answers to Chapter Questions.
Appendix H: Physical Activity Levels and Energy Requirements.
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Frances Sizer
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.
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Ellie Whitney
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.
- Mary Wissman
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Weight-neutral approach to health: The focus of this entire text is on achieving positive health outcomes through incremental and sustainable behavior change. This text is a scientific study of positive health behaviors that influence long-term health, independent of body size. Readers are pushed to view good health as a lifelong pursuit that looks different for everyone, rather than singular goal for all to attain.
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Measured References: Calculations, figures and examples give readers a clear, data-driven understanding of the science. Figures reflect changes in the most current health and nutrition data available for the U.S. population, including chronic disease incidence, financial influences on food and nutrition and sources of nutrients in the U.S. diet.
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New tables: New and revised tables provide readers with the data needed to enhance ideas with supported facts. Tables simplify the lengthy text into easy-to-read charts for the visual learner.
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Reinforce Key Concepts: To promote learning retention, each chapter includes features such as Self Check tests and Consumer’s Guide quizzes. Additionally, Controversy critical-thinking questions encourage deeper engagement with the material.
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Connect Fitness and Nutrition for Lasting Wellness: Think Fitness boxes draw vital connections between fitness and nutrition and offer practical advice on initiating or increasing healthy lifestyle behaviors.
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Food Features: These sections help readers make food choices according to science, bridging nutrition theory and practice in the process.
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Controversial Topics: End-of-chapter Controversy essays encourage students to investigate hot topics, the newest scientific evidence and emerging issues in nutrition. Critical-thinking questions help them to form opinions based on research.