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Discovering Nutrition

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

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 688
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9781449661335
  • Genres
  • textbooks
  • Release date
  • 2012