American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide (2nd Edition) [Hardcover]

American Dietetic Association (ADA) (Author), Duyff (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 2, 2002

* Latest healthy eating guidelines
* Foods and strategies for your good health
* Nutritional advice for every age and stage of life


A lifetime of sound, easy, and positive advice on healthy eating??from the world?s foremost authority on food and nutrition

The choices you make every day about food, nutrition, and health can have a major impact on your life. To find the most reliable nutrition information and sound advice in achieving optimal health, look no further. This comprehensive book from the American Dietetic Association explains everything you need to know about eating healthy, with simple, practical tips and flexible guidelines designed to help you choose nutritious, flavorful, and fun foods to suit your needs and lifestyle at any age.

This brand-new edition of the bestselling American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide offers the most up-to-date nutrition information for the whole family. From the healthiest baby food to eating well in the golden years, this fully revised, quick-access guide features:
* New chapters on the use and abuse of supplements (including herbals and other botanicals) and on nutrition and health conditions (including Syndrome X and adult and childhood diabetes) and food-drug interactions
* An expanded chapter on women?s health and nutrition that covers breast cancer, fibromyalgia, and the link between folic acid and heart disease
* The latest on food-borne bacteria and ways to prevent food-borne illness
* Help for making the right food choices in restaurants
* Facts about functional foods and phytonutrients for health, and nutritious ethnic food choices
* What you need to know about food and water safety
* American Heart Association, USDA, and American Cancer Society guidelines, as well as the DASH "blood-pressure-lowering" diet
* Up-to-date information on food labeling and food allergens and intolerances, including celiac disease
* More on managing body weight, the truth about today?s popular diets, and controlling emotional overeating
* Ways to blend nutrition with great taste?in fun, easy ways
* And much more

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

Being fit means a lot more than having a trim or muscular body and being free of health problems. It defines every aspect of your health–not only your physical health but also your emotional and mental well-being. Achieving fitness depends on adopting and maintaining smart habits and making good choices–and that’s what this book is about. You’ll discover how to eat for optimum health, all the while choosing nutritious, flavorful, and fun foods that suit your needs and lifestyle.

Registered dietitian Roberta Duyff and a host of experts from the American Dietetic Association have used the newest nutrition research to provide the most current and reliable answers to all your food and nutrition questions. This new edition of the comprehensive and easy-to-use American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide is filled with practical tips and flexible guidelines for all ages–everything from finding your healthiest weight to making wise selections at the supermarket to making healthy eating taste great. You’ll discover how you can eat the foods you like and enjoy new flavors that promote your personal fitness.

Beginning with personal "nutrition checkups" in nearly every chapter, you’ll find positive, sound, and practical advice and solutions for choosing nutritious, flavorful foods during life’s many ages and stages. Plus you’ll get all the latest information on:

• USDA, American Heart Association, and American Cancer Society dietary guidelines
• Weight management strategies that work and the truth about fad diets
• Making good nutrition fun for kids
• Women’s health and nutrition
• How eating and being active slow the "biomarkers" of aging
• Refrigerator thawing times, safe grilling, and other food safety tips
• Eating to prevent and treat disease (diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and others)
• The folic acid—heart disease link, Syndrome X, childhood obesity, and other nutrition topics
• Identifying and dealing with common food allergies
• Smart vegetarian eating
• The use and abuse of dietary supplements, including herbals and other botanicals
• Facts about functional foods (soy, flaxseed, energy drinks and bars, and others) and phytonutrients (lycopene, isoflavones, and others)
• Healthy dining out, ethnic-style
• Eating for peak physical performance
• Making sense of health and nutrition news
• And much, much more

American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide, Second Edition, will help you feel and look your best, work more productively, and even lower your risk for certain diseases. Eating for health is one of the wisest decisions you’ll ever make–get started right now with this ultimate healthy-eating primer.

From the Back Cover

• Latest healthy eating guidelines
• Foods and strategies for your good health
• Nutritional advice for every age and stage of life

A lifetime of sound, easy, and positive advice on healthy eating––from the world’s foremost authority on food and nutrition

The choices you make every day about food, nutrition, and health can have a major impact on your life. To find the most reliable nutrition information and sound advice in achieving optimal health, look no further. This comprehensive book from the American Dietetic Association explains everything you need to know about eating healthy, with simple, practical tips and flexible guidelines designed to help you choose nutritious, flavorful, and fun foods to suit your needs and lifestyle at any age.

This revised edition of American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide offers the most up-to-date nutrition information for the whole family, including the latest USDA dietary guidelines. This fully revised, quick-access guide features:

• New chapters on the use and abuse of supplements and on nutrition and health conditions, including Syndrome X, adult and childhood diabetes, and food-drug interactions
• An expanded chapter on women’s health and nutrition that covers breast cancer, fibromyalgia, and the link between folic acid and heart disease
• The latest on food-borne bacteria and ways to prevent food-borne illness
• Guidance in making the right food choices in restaurants
• Practical tips for parents on making sure their child is eating right
• What you need to know about food and water safety
• USDA, American Heart Association, and American Cancer Society guidelines, as well as the DASH "blood-pressure-lowering" diet
• Up-to-date information on food labeling and food allergens and intolerances, including celiac disease
• Help in finding and evaluating online nutrition
• More on managing body weight, the truth about fad diets, and controlling emotional overeating
• And much more

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Hardcover: 658 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (August 2, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471229245
• ISBN-13: 978-0471229247
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.4 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,924,188 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Discover books, learn about writers, read author blogs, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lead a lifestyle of health and well-being through nutrition, September 1, 2003

By 

Ericson Mar (Woodside, NY United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

I have read the first edition prior to this one and it was such an informative book that I bought myself the second edition. Researching nutrition for years, I must say this has to be my favorite out of all other nutrition books I've encountered. Of course each book has its own purpose and flavor, but if you want a good entry book into health and overall well-being (for yourself and/or your family) driven by nutrition, this is the one you need.

Through simple language and well-structured organization of the chapters, Duyff delivers a vast load of information mostly based on the Food Guide Pyramid, a guide used to quantitatively approximate the proportions of food consumed by categories. By no means is this a strict regimen of daily diet lists, however. The author covers the basics of food components to give a scientific/clinical basis for the nutrition guidelines suggested for good heath. You chose the specific foods yourself!

The author also covers food shopping and preparations. Topics range from reading nutrition labels to preparation safety. Not only do you want to make sure you know the quality of food you are getting (by its chemical components) you also want to make sure your kitchen habits minimize your exposure to harmful bacterial contamination and other health risks. One of my favorite features of the discussions are the myth-dispelling and "ambiguous label claims" clarifications. After reading this book you will look at "what people say" in a completely different light. Also, if you want to know what supplements work and do not work, you will find it here.

Special nutrition topics cover guidelines for people of different lifestyles. It includes ages from infants to the seniors. It even covers mothers and the special needs of women! Small sections discuss athletes, vegetarians, and allergies.

Overall, to sum it up, I would say that this book is about using nutrition as part of your lifestyle to optimal health through disease prevention and enhanced physical energy (though these two seem to be somewhat synergistic). It is not about quick methods to loose weight or cures for ailments. If you want to lead a nutritious lifestyle based on physiological health and well-being, and you have the patience and persistence to stick to common principles for a long time, this book is definitely worth reading as well as keeping as a shelf reference.

52 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Almost Baked, December 22, 2003

By 

Aaauger (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide (Paperback)

To be a reference, a book must have a decent index! So many publishers overlook this point. Having read through volumes of data, I remembered seeing interesting points but had a devil of a time locating them again. I had to literally leaf through the book a second time with sticky notes. Don't count on using this book as a reference. Do count on it for comprehensive nutritional information. (Just parse the dogma.) It is the best book I've read to date on nutrition: readable, thorough and pragmatic.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally, consumers can really "get" nutrition, April 24, 2003

By 

Keith-thomas Ayoob - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

Bottom line, this is the best consumer nutrition book out, and it will be for some time to come. The information is sound and reliable. It's user-friendly, and it's complete. Any consumer can open it up to any page and get useful information. From a tidbit to a chapter, if it matters in nutrition, Roberta Duyff has included it, and presented it in such a clear manner.

In a reference book of this type, a clear presentation of information is everything. This book's layout is logical and the topics are indexed with common sense.

As a consumer but also a nutrition professional, I need reference information that I know is based on sound science. I appreciate the practical, friendly, and common sense manner in which Roberta Duyff delivers nutrition information to the reader. For that reason alone, this book is worth its weight in gold.

In my office, this book stays easily reachable on my book shelf. My elderly parents also keep a copy and they use it. Brava to Roberta Duyff for this latest editiion of the ADA Complete Food and Nutrition Guide.