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Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies

by Frances Sienkiewicz Sizer; Frances Sizer Webb; Eleanor Noss Whitney

Edition:

7th

ISBN13:

9780314096357

ISBN10:

0314096353

Format:

Paperback

Pub. Date:

12/16/1996

Publisher(s):

Brooks Cole

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Table of Contents

Preface

xiii

CHAPTER ONE Food Choices and Human Health

1

(32)

CONTROVERSY: Who Speaks on Nutrition?

27

(6)

CHAPTER TWO Nutrition Standards and Guidelines

33

(40)

CONTROVERSY: The Mediterranean Diet: Does It Hold the Secret for a Healthy Heart?

67

(6)

CHAPTER THREE The Remarkable Body

73

(30)

CONTROVERSY: Should We be Eating the "Natural" Foods of Ancient Diets

98

(5)

CHAPTER FOUR The Carbohydrates: Sugars, Starch, Glycogen, and Fiber

103

(42)

CONTROVERSY: Sugar and Alternative Sweeteners: Are they "Bad" for you?

137

(8)

CHAPTER FIVE The Lipids: Fats, Oils, Phospholipids, and Sterols

145

(44)

CONTROVERSY: First Calories, Then Carbohydrates, Then Fat, Now What?

183

(6)

CHAPTER SIX The Proteins and Amino Acids

189

(36)

CONTROVERSY: Vegetarians versus Meat Eaters: Whose Diet Is Best?

220

(5)

CHAPTER SEVEN The Vitamins

225

(56)

CONTROVERSY: Antioxidant Vitamins: Magical Bullets?

274

(7)

CHAPTER EIGHT Water and Minerals

281

(54)

CONTROVERSY: Osteoporosis and Calcium

326

(9)

CHAPTER NINE Energy Balance and Weight Control

335

(42)

CONTROVERSY: Should Anyone Diet to Lose Weight?

371

(6)

CHAPTER TEN Nutrients, Physical Activity, and the Body's Responses

377

(46)

CONTROVERSY: What Causes Eating Disorders?

414

CHAPTER ELEVEN Nutrition and Disease Prevention

423

(48)

CONTROVERSY: Alcohol and Nutrition

463

(8)

CHAPTER TWELVE Life Cycle Nutrition: Mother and Infant

471

(42)

CONTROVERSY: Medicines, Other Drugs, and Nutrition

505

(8)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN Child, Teen, and Older Adult

513

(42)

CONTROVERSY: Food, Mind, and Memory

547

(8)

CHAPTER FOURTEEN Food Safety and Food Technology

555

(44)

CONTROVERSY: Future Foods: Are the New Food Technologies Safe?

591

(8)

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Hunger and the Global Environment

599

CONTROVERSY: Agribusiness and Food Production: How to Go forward?

619

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