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[Ebook PDF] Personal Nutrition, 10th Edition

ISBN-13: 978-1337557955
ISBN-10: 1337557951

Author: Marie A. Boyle (Author)

Take charge of your own nutrition and health with Boyle’s PERSONAL NUTRITION, 10th Edition. Packed with the latest research, recommendations and emerging trends, this popular book equips you with a solid foundation in fundamental nutritional principles–as well as the expertise to make informed, healthy choices. Lively illustrations, photographs and examples bring chapter concepts to life, while features like “”The Savvy Diner”” and “”Eat Well, Be Well”” offer practical tips you can put into immediate practice. A “”Scorecard”” quiz in each chapter enables you to compare your knowledge and behavior to proven nutritional principles and guidelines. In addition, “”Spotlight”” features tie current research directly to chapter topics such as common digestive problems, eating disorders and the pros and cons of using supplements to enhance athletic performance.

PREFACE
This 10th edition of Personal Nutrition reflects the same vision we had in writing the first edition of this book some 30 years ago—that is, to apply basic nutrition concepts to personal, everyday life. The text is designed to support the many one- to four-credit introductory nutrition courses available to students today from a variety of majors, and offers all readers the opportunity to develop practical skills in making decisions regarding their personal nutrition and health. Our challenge has been to teach facts about nutrition, to nurture critical thinking skills, and to motivate readers to apply what they learn in daily life.
Chapter Content
Chapter 1 introduces the basic nutrients the body needs and provides a personal invitation to eat well for optimum health. It assists readers in becoming sophisticated consumers of new information about nutrition, and explores the factors that affect food choices, including the media, advertising, and cultural factors.
Chapter 2 describes in detail the MyPlate food guide and related nutrition tools, and the 2015–2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans needed to create healthy eating patterns. It provides the newly revised food label for understanding the nutrition information, terminology, and health claims found on labels. Chapter 2 also includes a section on various international and ethnic cuisines that highlights the multicultural heritage of our country. Chapter 3 provides a colorfully illustrated introduction to the workings of the human body, with an emphasis on the body’s digestion and absorption of nutrients from foods. Chapters 4 through 8 present the nutrients and show how they all work together to nourish the body. Chapters 7 and 8 take a functional approach in presenting the roles of vitamins and minerals and spotlights the emerging importance of the antioxidant nutrients and phytochemicals; both chapters include colorful food photos depicting excellent food sources for individual vitamins and minerals. Chapter 9 discusses the impact of the beverages we drink on our nutritional health. In-depth coverage of alcohol in Chapter 9 provides students with important information on alcohol’s relationship to nutrition and health, helping them make informed and responsible decisions.
Chapter 10 discusses weight management issues and compares major weight-loss programs. Chapter 11 addresses the relationships between nutrition and personal fitness. Chapter 12 describes the special nutrition needs and concerns that arise during the various stages of the life cycle from conception through the older adult years. Chapter 13 addresses consumer concerns about the safety of our food supply, provides a glimpse at some of the problems and advantages of current food technologies, illustrates the global benefits derived when consumers choose locally grown, seasonal foods as much as possible, and presents a brief overview of hunger and food insecurity—both at home and abroad.
Features
The Savvy Diner features throughout the text motivate readers to make good health a priority and provide suggestions for making the best food and lifestyle choices for healthy living and disease prevention. This feature includes practical tips for today’s students that offer health benefits for a lifetime. Topics include “Whole Grains for Health,” “Nourish the Heart,” “Never Say ‘Diet,’” “An Eating Pattern for Longevity,”
and “Color Your Plate for Health.” The Savvy Diner features provide practical suggestions for healthy eating and reinforce the recommendations made in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. These features include tips for consuming heart-healthy diets, eating more beans, preserving vitamins in foods, seasoning foods without excess sodium, dining out defensively, sports nutrition basics for athletes, and practicing home food safety.
The Nutrition Action features are magazine-style essays that keep you abreast of current topics important to nutrition-conscious consumers. The Nutrition Action features address topics such as fast food, smart snacking, food allergies, dietary supplements and medicinal herbs, diet and blood pressure, and aging well with physical activity. The Nutrition Action sections reflect the latest issues in the field. For example, “Carbohydrates—Friend or Foe?” helps consumers choose healthful carbohydrates while making sense of the carbohydrate debate; “Diet Confusion: Weighing the Evidence” helps readers make sense of the current weight-loss scene; and “Eat Fresh Eat Local” includes the earth-friendly benefits of eating fresh and locally grown organic foods.
The Ask Yourself sections at the beginning of each chapter contain a set of true or false questions designed to provide readers with a preview of the chapter’s contents.
Answers to the questions are also provided.
Scorecards are hands-on features that allow readers to evaluate their own nutrition behaviors and knowledge in many areas. Some of the Scorecards assist readers in assessing their longevity, overall diet, fruit and vegetable consumption, weight status, physical activity habits, and food safety know-how.
The final special feature of each chapter is the Spotlight. Each addresses a common concern people have about nutrition. Spotlight topics include nutrition and the media, ethnic cuisines, alternative sweeteners, diet and heart disease, the benefits derived from vegetarian diets, nutrition and cancer prevention, osteoporosis, fetal alcohol syndrome, eating disorders, athletes and nutritional supplements, and child
obesity. The Chapter 13 Spotlight covers the many factors that influence nutrition and food insecurity among the people of the world, and underscores that the practical suggestions offered throughout this book for attaining the ideals of personal nutrition are the very suggestions that best support the health of the whole earth as well. The Spotlights continue in their question-and-answer format to encourage readers to ask further questions about nutrition issues. We encourage you to ask us questions, too, in care of the publisher.
The appendixes have also been updated. Appendix A presents aids to calculations, including how to calculate the percentage of calories from fat in one’s diet. Appendix A also provides a series of photos depicting the Choose Your Foods: Food Lists for Diabetes and Weight Management, and sample USDA Healthy Eating Patterns at various calorie levels that complement the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Appendix B
includes Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide, which interprets Canada’s Guidelines for Healthy Living, including recommendations for physical activity. A Diet and Wellness Plus assignment follows the appendixes. The glossary of terms that follows the appendixes provides a quick reference to the nutrition terminology defined in the margins of the text and can be used as a review tool.