Nutrition & you
By: Ida Walker
Series: Nutrition: a global view
Publisher: Alphahouse
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781934970331
Subjects: Nutrition; Juvenile literature
Other titles: Nutrition and you
Description: Provides a unique view of individual nutrition as well as how it impacts the individual, the community, and the world. This engaging book provides a comprehensive overview of nutrition and then focuses on how nutrition affects health in so many ways: physical growth and development, metabolism and energy level, mood and mental health, cognitive ability, and more. Also explored are nutritional issues of importance and interest to today's youth: proper nutrition for best athletic performance, potentially dangerous societal pressures to be thin, the increase of obesity and how this puts kids at increased risk for health problems, and much more.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-110) and index.