nutrition

This book introduces the USDA MyPlate, offering tips to healthy eating.

Text and illustrations provide information about nutrition and maintaining a balanced diet.

"An introduction to making healthy choices, including the dangers of tobacco, alcohol, and drugs"--Provided by publisher.

The USDA has replaced its Food Pyramid nutrition guidelines with the straightforward MyPlate. This volume introduces the new program in simple terms. Using basic vocabulary, the text emphasizes the importance of staying healthy, presents the five food groups, and explains the purpose of MyPlate. Includes a list of helpful facts, glossary, and index.

Introduces nutrition and the concept of eating natural foods of every color through simple text and photographs. Includes notes for adults and a related activity.

Complete with annotated illustrations that clarify complex structures and life processes, this volume surveys the parts, characteristics, and classifications of various living things and explores the evolution of life in general.

Presents eight to twelve readings about artificial ingredients from a variety of perspectives that allow students to better understand and navigate the topic. Color photos, charts, graphs, tables and editorial cartoons reinforce information as well as present important statistical data.

Offers information to young people about nutrition and how to make good food choices, examining such issues as obesity and eating disorders, and including discussion of diets, supplements, vegetarian eating, the food pyramid, and related topics.

Former FDA commissioner Dr. David Kessler explains the science of overeating, describing how a person's body and mind are influenced by the consumption of salt, fat, and sugar and how those ingredients lead to overeating, and presents effective strategies to stop the overeating cycle.

Contains definitions for over six thousand terms related to food, nutrition, diet, and health; and includes Recommended Daily Allowance lists.