Discovering Nutrition - Softcover

Insel, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1449661335 ISBN 13: 9781449661335

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2012

Synopsis

Discovering Nutrition, Fourth Edition is a student-friendly introduction to nutrition on a non-majors level. Coverage of material such as digestion, metabolism, chemistry, and life cycle nutrition is clearly written, accessible, and engaging to undergraduate students.

New to the Fourth Edition
· Upgraded and modernized interior layout
· The 2010 Dietary Guidelines and MyPlate
· New section on diet and health, including sections on obesity and physical activity
· Vitamin and mineral supplements
· Spotlight on childhood obesity
· Hypertension
· New pregnancy weight gain guidelines from the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council
· Expanded information regarding Celiac Disease
· More content on nutrition and disease
· Information on the Mediterranean diet; food guides of other countries

About this title

About the Author:

Dr. Insel is an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. In addition to being the Principal Investigator on several NIH nutrition projects, he is the senior author of the seminal text in health education and has co-authored several best-selling nutrition books.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1449661335
• ISBN 13: 9781449661335
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 688