Nutrition 08/09
By: editor, Dorothy Klimis-Zacas
Edition: 20th ed.
Series: Annual editions; Annual editions
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Boston, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780073515472
Subjects: Nutrition; Periodicals; Diet; Périodiques; Alimentation
Other titles: Annual editions: Nutrition. 2008/2009; Nutrition 2008/2009
Description: The main goal of this anthology is to provide the reader with up-to-date information by presenting current topics based on scientific evidence ... [This book] is to be used as a companion to a standard nutrition text ... [It] is composed of seven units that review current knowledge and controversies in the area of nutrition. The first unit describes current trends in the field of nutrition in the United States and the rest of the world, including the new dietary guidelines for the United States and the "New Food Guide Pyramid" ... Units two, three, and four include topics that focus on nutrients and recent research findings on the role nutrients play in degenerative disease and the obesity epidemic worldwide. Unites five and six cover topics on health claims and focus on food safety, including subjects about which consumers are misinformed and are thus vulnerable to quackery. Finally, unit seven focuses on world hunger and malnutrition, including environmental sustainability and biotechnology.-Pref.
Table of contents: title: Unit 1. Nutrition trends:; title: Changing American diet  -- Bonnie Liebman and David Schardt; title: Green invasion  -- Betsy Querna; title: Mega-brands that rule our diet  -- James Tillotson; title: Healthier eating  -- Michelle Meadows; title: Smarter-and healthier-supermarket shopping made simple  -- Tufts University health & nutrition letter; title: Your genomic diet  -- Corby Kummer; title: Slow food movement picks up speed  -- Sharon Palmer; title: Schools can taste good  -- Katherine Gigliotti; title: Eating green  -- Nutrition action healthletter -- Unit 2. Nutrients:; title: Confusion at the vitamin counter  -- Bonnie Liebman; title: Putting sugars into perspective  -- Food insight; title: Are you getting enough of this vitamin?  -- Harvard health letter; title: Minerals matter  -- Consumer reports on health; title: Are you D deficient?  -- Bonnie Liebman -- Unit 3. Diet and disease through the life span:; title: Diet does matter  -- Marie Spano; title: Metabolic syndrome  -- Darwin Deen; title: Living longer, diet  -- Donna Jackson Nakazawa; title: HIV/AIDS  -- Dale Ames Kline; title: Food and drugs that just don't mix  -- Carolyn Milazzo; title: New AHA diet and lifestyle recommendations  -- Ellen Coleman; title: Consumers primed for personalized information on foods for health  -- Food Insight; title: Searching for a healthy mix  -- Lawrence Hardy -- Unit 4. Obesity and weight control:; title: Still hungry?  -- Janet Raloff; title: Eat more weigh less  -- Amanda Spake; title: Cancer, how extra pounds boost your risk  -- Bonnie Liebman; title: Health diet face-off  -- Christie Aschwanden; title: Will your child be fat?  -- Jessica Snyder Sachs; title: Dying to be thin -- Kristin Leutwyler.; title: Unit 5. Health claims:; title: Shaping up the dietary supplement industry  -- Sharon Palmer; title: Organic myth  -- Diane Brady; title: Herbal foods  -- Karen M. Silvers and Emmeline L.R. Taptiklis; title: Phytosterols  -- Jill Weisenberger; title: Using nutrition-related claims to build a healthful diet  -- Food Insight; title: Meeting today's health concerns  -- Linda M. Ohr -- Unit 6. Food safety/technology:; title: Better safe than sorry  -- Nancy Shute; title: Much ado about allergies  -- Rita Nolan; title: Dirty birds  -- Consumer Reports; title: Fear of fresh  -- Bonnie Liebman and Robert Tauxe; title: Seafood safety  -- Matthew Robb; title: E. Coli outbreak, lettuce learn a lesson  -- S. Palmer; title: Dioxins, diet and health  -- Food Insight -- Unit 7. World hunger and malnutrition:; title: Scourge of "hidden hunger"  -- Gina Kennedy, Guy Nantel, and Prakash Shetty; title: Pushing beyond the earth's limits  -- Lester R. Brown; title: Food security, overweight, and agricultural research  -- E. Kennedy; title: Contribution of indigenous knowledge and practices in food technology to the attainment of food security in Africa  -- Ruth Oniango, Joseph Allotey, and Serah J. Malaba; title: Taking steps toward adequate supermarket access  -- Mary Anne Clairmont; title: Produce to the people -- Constance Matthiessen and Anne Hamersky.