Webb, Frances Sizer.

Nutrition : concepts and controversies / Frances Sienkiewicz Sizer, Ellie Whitney. - 10th ed. - Australia ; Belmont, CA : Thomson Wadsworth, c2006. - 1 v. in various pagings : ill. ; 28 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

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.)

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Nutrition.
Food.

QP141 / .S5365 2006

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