1 Food Choices and Human Health |
Controversy 1 Sorting the Impostors From the Real Nutrition Experts |
2 Nutrition Tools--Standards and Guidelines |
Controversy 2 Phytochemicals and Functional Foods: What Do They Promise? |
What Do They Deliver? |
3 The Remarkable Body |
Controversy 3 Alcohol and Nutrition: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Risks? |
4 The Carbohydrates: Sugar, Starch, Glycogen, and Fiber |
Controversy 4 Are Carbohydrates "Bad" for Health? |
5 The Lipids: Fats, Oils, Phospholipids, and Sterols |
Controversy 5 High-Fat Foods: Which to Choose for Good Health? |
6 The Proteins and Amino Acids |
Controversy 6 Vegetarian and Meat-Containing Diets: What Are the Benefits and Pitfalls? |
7 The Vitamins |
Controversy 7 Vitamin Supplements: Who Benefits? |
8 Water and Minerals |
Controversy 8 Osteoporosis: Can Lifestyle Choices Reduce the Risks? |
9 Energy Balance and Healthy Body Weight |
Controversy 9 The Perils of Eating Disorders |
10 Nutrients, Physical Activity, and the Body's Responses |
Controversy 10 Erogogenic Aids: Breakthroughs, Gimmicks, or Dangers? |
11 Diet and Health |
Controversy 11 Nutritional Genomics: Can It Deliver on Its Promises? |
12 Food Safety and Food Technology |
Controversy 12 Organic Foods and Genetically Modified Foods: What Are the Pros and Cons? |
13 Life Cycle Nutrition: Mother and Infant |
Controversy 13 Childhood Obesity and Early Chronic Diseases |
14 Child, Teen, and Older Adult |
Controversy 14 Nutrient-Drug Interactions: Who Should Be Concerned? |
15 Hunger and Global Environment |
Controversy 15 Agribusiness and Food Production: How to Go Forward |
Appendix A Table of Food Composition |
Appendix B Canadian: Recommendations, Choice Systems, and Labels |
Appendix C Aids to Calculation |
Appendix D U.S. Food Exchange System |
Appendix E Nutrition Resources |
Appendix F Reference Notes |
Appendix G Answers to Self-Check Questions |
Appendix H Physical Activity and Energy Requirements |
Glossary |
Index |