Nutrition and You

by Joan Salge Blake

Nutrition and You incorporates a personalized approach to readers' nutritional concerns and interests in a readable, engaging, and motivating style. The photos, illustrations, and text present each vitamin and mineral in self-contained spreads, called Visual Summary Tables, that appeal to readers' propensity for visual learning. This format enables readers to identify the key aspects of each nutrient at a glance and in a consistent and easy-to-study format. What Is Nutrition? Tools for Healthy Eating, How The Body Uses the Food and Nutrients You Eat, Carbohydrates: Sugars, Starches, and Fiber, Lipids: Fats, Oils, Phospholipids, and Sterols, Proteins and Amino Acids, Vitamins, Minerals and Water, Alcohol, Weight Management and Disordered Eating, Nutrition and Fitness, Food Safety and Technology, Eating throughout the Lifecycle: Pregnancy, Breastfeeding, and Infants, Eating throughout the Lifecycle: Toddlers through Later Years, Hunger at Home and Abroad For all r

Genres: Nonfiction

800 pages, Paperback

First published September 10, 2007

Reviews

[L Campagnola]

Thought I knew about nutrition. I now realize there is much more to know.

[e.m · Rating 2 out of 5]

i’m so done with my nutrition class never want to read this again

[Chris · Rating 2 out of 5]

Over-produced. Could've done without the Big Pictures! and the Infographics! and all the cutesy high-school textbook stuff. Would've preferred a more condensed book. That said, it has the information needed, if a bit watered down.

[Tracie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Currently reading this book for my Nutrition 101 course.

[Colette · Rating 3 out of 5]

current textbook

[Tyffanie A · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easy to read & understand the nutrition concepts