Nutrition : concepts and controversies /
Frances Sizer, Ellie Whitney.
- custom edition.
- Australia : Cengage Learning, c2007
- xvii, (various pagings) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content 1. Food choices and human health 2. Nutrition tools, standards and guidelines 3. Remarkable body 4. Carbohydrates, sugar, starch, glycogen, and fiber 5. Lipids, fats, oils, phospholipids, and sterols 6. Proteins and amino acids 7. Vitamins 8. Water and minerals 9. Energy balance and healthy body weight 10. Nutrients, physical activity, and the body's responses 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 global environment