Nutrition : concepts and controversies / Frances Sienkiewicz Sizer, Ellie Whitney.

Includes laminated insert with title: Dietary guidelines for Americans 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Food choices and human health -- Nutrition tools, standards and guidelines -- Remarkable body -- Carbohydrates, sugar, starch, glycogen, and fiber -- Lipids, fats, oils, phospholipids, and sterols -- Proteins and amino acids -- Vitamins -- Water and minerals -- Energy balance and healthy body weight -- Nutrients, physical activity, and the body's responses -- Diet and health -- Food safety and food technology -- Life cycle nutrition, mother and infant -- Child, teen, and older adult -- Hunger and the global environment -- Appendixes: Table of food composition; Canadiana, recommendations, choice system, and labels; Aids to calculations; U.S. food exchange system; Nutrition resources; Notes; Answers to self check questions; Physical activity and energy requirements; Food patterns to meet the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 -- Glossary.

Text focuses on nutrition principles and their application while offering outstanding coverage of the biological foundations of nutrition without assuming previous knowledge of them. It is a nutrition text for the non-majors or mixed majors/non-majors introductory course.

System requirements for accompanying disc: Windows or Macintosh: Pentium II; 64 MB RAM; Windows 98+ or Mac OS 9+; Flashplayer; internet browser (IE5+ or Netscape 6+); 800 x 600 screen reslution, 16-bit high color display; 16-bit sound card; speakers or head-phones; 8X CD-ROM drive.

System requirements for accompanying disc: Windows or Macintosh: Pentium II; 64 MB RAM; Windows 98+ or Mac OS 9+; Flashplayer; internet browser (IE5+ or Netscape 6+); 800 x 600 screen reslution, 16-bit high color display; 16-bit sound card; speakers or head-phones; 8X CD-ROM drive.