nutrition

"Using MyPlate and the USDA's dietary guidelines, this program presents a practical overview of the basic concepts of healthy eating. You learn about the guidelines' three main recommendations: eat nutrient-dense foods, blance calories and reduce solid fats, added sugars and sodium"--Container.

Follows the three major food chains that feed humans--industrial, organic, and hunter-gatherer--from the earth to four meals, exploring the ethical and political effects of one's food choices.

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real." Indeed, plain old eating is being replaced by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Pollan's advice is: "Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food." Looking at what science does and does not know about diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about what to eat, informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the nutrient-by-nutrient approach.--From publisher description.

Presents the Standard Deviants approach to learning about minerals and their role in the human body, covering macrominerals, microminerals, and vitamin and mineral supplements.

Presents the Standard Deviants approach to learning about fats, providing information about fatty acids, lipids, saturated and unsaturated fats, and fat digestion.

Presents the Standard Deviants approach to learning about vitamins and their role in human nutrition, explaining what vitamins are, and covering fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E and K, and water-soluble Vitamins B and C.

Provides nutrition information for athletes. Dispels ten common nutrition myths by explaining what to eat, when and why. Uses the USDA's MyPyramid as the guide.

Explains how the body works in a fun, friendly format. Topics include body fat, lean body mass, obesity, metabolic rate and eating disorders.

Presents the Standard Deviants approach to learning about protein and its role in the human body, covering amino acids, digestion, and protein deficiency.

Two friends have lunch together, one choosing a low-carbohydrate diet, and the other high-carbohydrate. Both search for facts about carbohydrates and how they work in the human body to back up their positions. Also learn how to interpret food labels, and see through marketing schemes for diets.