Nutrition fundamentals: selected chapters from contemporary nutrition issues and insigents. /
Gordon M. Wardlaw
- 5th ed.
- New York: Custom publishing, c2003.
- 414p+various pagings 27cm.
includes index
Contents: Nutrition: a key to health: What you eat and why -- Tools for designing a healthy diet -- The Human body: a nutrition perspective -- The Energy-yielding nutrients and alcohol: Carbohydrates -- Lipids -- Proteins -- Alcohol -- Vitamins and minerals: Vitamins -- Water and minerals -- Energy: balance and imbalance: Energy balance and weight control -- Nutrition: fitness and sport -- Appendices: Dietary advice for Canadians -- The Exchange system: a helpful menu-planning tool -- Exchange system lists -- Dietary intake and energy expenditure assessment -- Important chemical structures in nutrition -- The 1983 Metropolitan life insurance company -- Height-weight table and determination of frame size -- Caffeine content of foods -- Sources of nutrition information -- English-metric conversions and metric units -- Answers to critical thinking questions.