Human nutrition
Anderson, John; Root,Martin M; Garner,Sanford C.
Human nutrition healthy options for life John Anderson, Martin Root, Sanford Garner. - 1st ed. - Burlington Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2015. - xvi;622 p. 28 cm.
Human Nutrition: Healthy Options for Life provides all the essentials information students need regarding foods and nutrients, and how the body uses nutrients in relation to both health and chronic diseases. The authors provide a unique focus on the linkages between nutrients deficits and/or excesses and personal health. It helps students fully understand epidemiology, with a clear focus on the concept of the multiple risk factors involved in diseases, such as diet, heredity, and lifestyle factors. Human Nutrition: Healthy Options for Life empowers students to become more sophisticated in their own nutritional health behavior and guides them in determining appropriate serving sizes and food choices that promote health and prevent diet-related diseases. Key Features: - Student activities serve as self-tests for students who wish to expand their knowledge and understaning of nutrition. - A robust pedagogy includes chapter outlines and summaries, focus boxes, important quotes, students questions, and key word definitions, to help students better understand and retain key material. - Reviews all major nutrients including sources of energy, protein, and micronutrients. - Provides a strong emphasis on the contributions of nutrients in overall health and disease prevention. - Incorporates a review of the general nutritional recommendations and guidelines endorsed by the American Dietetics Association (ADA). - Emphasizes science-based information on the diverse nutrients and phytochemicals, an overview of lifecycle nutrition, focus on body weight and obesity, an explanation of linkages between nutritional intake patterns and the common chronic diseases, and important metabolic pathways and molecular structures.
1449698743 (paperback) $150.95 9781449698744 (paperback)
7754.00 PKR
Human nutrition healthy options for life John Anderson, Martin Root, Sanford Garner. - 1st ed. - Burlington Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2015. - xvi;622 p. 28 cm.
Human Nutrition: Healthy Options for Life provides all the essentials information students need regarding foods and nutrients, and how the body uses nutrients in relation to both health and chronic diseases. The authors provide a unique focus on the linkages between nutrients deficits and/or excesses and personal health. It helps students fully understand epidemiology, with a clear focus on the concept of the multiple risk factors involved in diseases, such as diet, heredity, and lifestyle factors. Human Nutrition: Healthy Options for Life empowers students to become more sophisticated in their own nutritional health behavior and guides them in determining appropriate serving sizes and food choices that promote health and prevent diet-related diseases. Key Features: - Student activities serve as self-tests for students who wish to expand their knowledge and understaning of nutrition. - A robust pedagogy includes chapter outlines and summaries, focus boxes, important quotes, students questions, and key word definitions, to help students better understand and retain key material. - Reviews all major nutrients including sources of energy, protein, and micronutrients. - Provides a strong emphasis on the contributions of nutrients in overall health and disease prevention. - Incorporates a review of the general nutritional recommendations and guidelines endorsed by the American Dietetics Association (ADA). - Emphasizes science-based information on the diverse nutrients and phytochemicals, an overview of lifecycle nutrition, focus on body weight and obesity, an explanation of linkages between nutritional intake patterns and the common chronic diseases, and important metabolic pathways and molecular structures.
1449698743 (paperback) $150.95 9781449698744 (paperback)
7754.00 PKR