Nutrition, Concepts and Controversies

by Ellie Whitney

Focuses on core nutrition principles and their personal applications while offering coverage of the biological foundations of nutrition without assuming previous knowledge. This text dispels students' existing misconceptions, and empowers them to make better nutrition choices and enact real, lasting behavior change.

864 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 2003

About the author

Dr. Ellie Whitney, Ph.D., grew up in New York City and received her BA and PhD degrees in English and Biology at Harvard and Washington Universities. She taught at both Florida State University and Florida A&M University, wrote newspaper columns on environmental matters for the Tallahassee Democrat, and coauthored almost a dozen college textbooks on nutrition, health, and related topics. She spent three decades exploring outdoor Florida and studying its ecology. She co-chairs the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, New Jersey, Green Sanctuary Committee. Now retired, and more concerned about climate change than any other issue, she volunteers full-time for the nonpartisan national nonprofit Citizens Climate Lobby.
(Bio-clip from Cengage Publishers)

Reviews

[Mackenzie Bradley · Rating 3 out of 5]

So much detail, and the additional information at the end of each chapter was great. However, the content of each chapter was not organized in a logical manner. It was difficult to sort through the information of a given topic. Still, good for current research.

[Karen Berry · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great section on all the vitamins and minerals and all the functions they do for the body.