Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The study of nutrition and food habits
Chapter 2: What are the influences on eating habits?
Chapter 3: Basics of a healthy diet
Chapter 4: The nutrients in food and their role in health
Chapter 5: Fats
Chapter 6: Carbohydrates
Chapter 7: Energy needs
Chapter 8: Energy balance
Chapter 9: Vitamins
Chapter 10: Minerals electrolytes and fluid
Chapter 11: The application of nutritional knowledge
Chapter 12: Infants, children and adolescents
Chapter 13: Adults and the elderly population
Chapter 14: Diet and coronary heart disease
Chapter 15: Diet and cancer
Chapter 16: Challenges to nutritional status
Chapter 17: Optimizing Nutrition
Chapter 18: Public Health Nutrition and Health Promotion

About the Author

Mary E. Barasi BA, BSc, MSc, R. Nutr.
Principal Lecturer in Nutrition, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK

Reviews

A well-presented, reader-friendly format. Ideal for use in course units on Diet and Health, Social Nutrition, Food and Health and Health Care and Public Health -- Ms J Thompson, Bradford and Ilkley Community Colle 20030901 This comprehensive and comprehensible book is appropriate for any undergraduate student taking human nutrition as part of their programme...a useful addition to the bookshelf of university lecturers and schoolteachers working in this field...a valuable and up-to-date resource for all those working in the area or simply interested in nutrition. -- Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics 20030901