Nutrition : real people, real choices /

Hewlings, Susan J.

Nutrition : real people, real choices / Susan J. Hewlings, Denis M. Medeiros. - Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2009. - xxviii, 699 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 653-662) and index.

Contents
1. The food on your plate
2. Think before you eat: developing a nutrition plan for health
3. Carbohydrates
4. Fats or lipids: from plate to waist
5. Proteins: more than just meat and muscle
6. Digestion, absorption & metabolism
7. Energy balance and obesity
8. Water & electrolytes
9. Vitamins
10. Minerals
11. Supplements and functional foods
12. Alcohol and your health: from grain to brain
13. Assuring a safe food supply: from farm to fork
14. Sports nutrition
15. Eating disorders
16. Pregnancy, breastfeeding, and infants
17. As we grow: nutrition for children, adolescents, and older adults.


9780130612243 0130612243

2007039939


Nutrition.
Nutrition Physiology.

QU 145 H612n 2009