Webb, Frances Sizer

Nutrition : concepts and controversies / [book] Frances Sienkiewicz Sizer, Ellie Whitney - 10th ed. - Belmont, CA : Belmont, CA : Thomson Wadsworth, c2006. - xviii, 584 p. [211 p.] : ill.

Includes laminated insert with title: Dietary guidelines for Americans 2005

Includes index and bibliographical references

Food choices and human health -- Nutrition tools, standards and guidelines -- Remarkable body -- Carbohydrates, sugar, starch, glycogen, and fiber -- Lipids, fats, oils, phospholipids, and sterols -- Proteins and amino acids -- Vitamins -- Water and minerals -- Energy balance and healthy body weight -- Nutrients, physical activity, and the body's responses -- Diet and health -- Food safety and food technology -- Life cycle nutrition, mother and infant -- Child, teen, and older adult -- Hunger and the global environment -- Appendixes: Table of food composition; Canadiana, recommendations, choice system, and labels; Aids to calculations; U.S. food exchange system; Nutrition resources; Notes; Answers to self check questions; Physical activity and energy requirements; Food patterns to meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 -- Glossary

0534645062 (Student edition) 0534406726 (Instructor's ed.) 0495011835 (International student ed.)


Nutrition
Food

QP141 / .W365 2006