Diet and Nutrition
opens new windowNutrition.gov is a gateway to reliable resources about food, healthy eating, physical activity, and food safety. Find links to information from organizations with expertise in food and human nutrition to help you make healthful choices.
The site of the opens new windowAmerican Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics includes fact sheets and other resources about nutrition and health.
The opens new windowUS Department of Agriculture provides information about research, food labeling, dietary guidelines, and more.
The Gale Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Food Labels
by "Covers key nutrition and food label topics and terms as well as diseases and global food/nutrition issues"--ISBN: 9781410338921Publication Date: 2016-11-10
Disclaimer: This guide's purpose is to provide resources related to general health & wellness. Some resources may contain information that is the opinion of the author and not necessarily that of a physician. Only health professionals can interpret and individualize information for a specific person's condition or health situation. Please consult a health professional for specific medical questions.
The Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health
by The Encyclopedia of Nutrition and Good Health, Second Edition is the authoritative A-to-Z guide to all aspects of nutrition and maintaining a healthy diet. Thoroughly updated, it examines the latest advances in the field, including revised government guidelines and requirements - like the new folate enrichment laws - and new research - for example, the discovery of a link between colon cancer and preserved meats but not fresh meats. Concise and extensively cross-referenced, It is the perfect one-stop guide to the often-confusing mass of nutritional information available today. More than 2,500 entries provide the essential information readers will want to know about nutrition and good health. Covering food ingredients such as vitamins, minerals, fats, carbohydrates, and proteins; the health benefits and dangers of foods; diseases and health disorders related to nutrition; processed foods and their side effects; the link between certain foods and cancer; food allergies; eating disorders; and much more, this edition is comprised of approximately 30 percent of new material, including several new appendixes.Publication Date: 2003-08-01
Healthy Cooking and Nutrition for College Students
by A recent study, published in the Nutrition Journal, found that one in four college freshmen gain at least five percent of his or her body weight, an average of about 10 pounds, during the first semester. All of this can be avoided with healthy cooking and an eye for good choices. This all-inclusive book covers everything from affordable options to reading ingredient labels. You will learn some basic healthy cooking techniques, the latest nutrition research, the low-down on all the most-talked about diets, and what kinds of foods will improve your college lifestyle. If you want to avoid the freshman 15 while also fueling your body with what it needs to be your sharpest, most energized self, then this book is for you.ISBN: 9781620231593Publication Date: 2016-09-30Deconstructing Cravings
by All cravings have a root cause. Deconstructing Cravings examines differnt types of cravings and gives readers ideas about how to search for the root cause of their own cravings.ISBN: 9781941908068Publication Date: 2016-07-08
