An easy-to-use book, written by 3 experts in the field, that has the latest dietary recommendations along with the amounts of 23 nutrients in more than 5000 foods. It shows you how to use nutrition information on food labels, gives a step-by-step guide for comparing your diet to the recommendations, and emphasizes eating for health AND pleasure. The book also has helpful tips for improving you diet, and other tidbits, such as recipes and a pack-your-own-lunch chart for children. It's handy having it on your book shelf, even if just for looking up things like how much fiber and potassium in a banana.
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If you're interested in eating right, this book's for you! Want to know how good--or bad--your diet is? How much fiber in a carrot? How much vitamin B-12 in a pork chop? This is the book! It has the latest dietary recommendations, nutrients for 5,000+ foods, a step-by-step guide to assessing your diet, and what you need to know to eat right.
The food composition table is unique. It includes amounts for 23 nutrients with no missing values and gives vitamins and minerals as % of the Daily Values used on food labels (instead of hard-to-understand metric units). You can tell at a glance which foods are high or low in a nutrient: Is a food high in zinc if it has 15 milligrams (the daily recommended amount)? When it's given as 100% of the Daily Value, you know it is. Many ethnic and fast foods are included, and the index of foods is extensively cross-indexed, making it easy to find even the most unusual foods.
The authors are teachers, received their degrees in nutrition from the University of California at Berkeley, and bring more than 30 years of experience to the subject. The book's been used since 1992 by thousands of students in health and nutrition classes, so it's time-tested, clear, and user friendly. You learn how to read food labels, and you combine the nutrient values on the labels with that in the book, giving you a far more accurate and useful analysis of your diet.
If you take nutrient supplements simply because you don't know if you're getting enough, you may be in for a surprise. Your supplement may have what you don't need, and not have what you do need. Or you may find that your diet is better than you think, and you don't need the supplement after all. Learn more about the food you eat. Learn how to eat right. Eating for health and eating for pleasure can be the same! --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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How much fiber in an orange? Is it true that oysters are high in zinc? What's meant by a good diet? Is my diet as bad as I think it is? How do food labels help me assess my diet? Can I eat a good diet and junk food? Does 30% or less of my calories come from fat?
Eat for health AND pleasure! Easy to use and chock full of helpful information. Nutrient values given as % of Daily Value, just like food labels. Step-by-step guide for comparing your diet to the recommendations. Learn how to estimate your calorie requirement and assess your weight. Nutrient values for 23 nutrients in 5,000+ foods, including many ethnic foods. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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This review is from: Are You Eating Right? Analyze Your Diet Using the Nutrient Content of More Than 5,000 foods (Paperback)
This is a great guide for staying healthy AND maintaining or losing weight. I found it especially helpful since I am a vegetarian and often have trouble getting enough protein.
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Helpful and Easy to Use Food Composition Guide,
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This review is from: Are You Eating Right? Analyze Your Diet Using the Nutrient Content of More Than 5,000 foods (Paperback)
Are You Eating Right is a helpful and informative way to analyze your diet. As a general guide to food composition, it provides the basic information we need in order to know what we're actually eating as well as to plan how to get the nutrients we need in our diets. It's clear and easy to use; I highly recommend it.
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This review is from: Are You Eating Right? Compare Your Diet to the Official Recommendations Using the Nutrient Content of 5000+ Foods (Paperback)
Encyclopedic in scope, yet happily reader-friendly in style, "Are You Eating Right?" deserves to be in the kitchen of everyone who seriously cares about what we consume in our diet. Listing over 7,700 individual foods and beverages in easy-to-read tables, ranging from the mundane (hamburgers - 44 separate entries!) to the exotic (caviar), each food is analyzed into 24 individual nutritional components. A prodigious effort of great practical value.
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One goal of a healthy diet is to eat enough; another is to avoid eating too much. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ocean perch, tolerable upper intake level, milk group, pan dulce, moon cake, cin vit, min flavin cin, magne sium iron zinc, potass vit, slum iron zinc, including home canned, cium phorus sium iron zinc, carbo fiber, milk sundae, buttermilk type, cooked without salt, medium patty, peel eaten, skin eaten, stew type, small brownie, fat eaten, reconstituted with water, drained solids, medium steak Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Puerto Rican, Daily Value Food, Food Description, General Mills, Fish Food, Processed American, Vegetables Food, Include Weight Watchers, Duncan Hines, Processed Swiss, Betty Crocker Super Moist, Low Fat, Include Spanish, Raisin Bran, Include Campbell, Orange Cappuccino, Daily Food Choices, French Style Coffee, Suisse Mocha, Include Pan de Huevo, Include Alba, Food Guide Pyramid, Include Mexican, Include Snackwells, Include Nestle's Quik Browse Sample Pages:
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One goal of a healthy diet is to eat enough; another is to avoid eating too much. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ocean perch, tolerable upper intake level, milk group, pan dulce, moon cake, cin vit, min flavin cin, magne sium iron zinc, potass vit, slum iron zinc, including home canned, cium phorus sium iron zinc, carbo fiber, milk sundae, buttermilk type, cooked without salt, medium patty, peel eaten, skin eaten, stew type, small brownie, fat eaten, reconstituted with water, drained solids, medium steak Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Puerto Rican, Daily Value Food, Food Description, General Mills, Fish Food, Processed American, Vegetables Food, Include Weight Watchers, Duncan Hines, Processed Swiss, Betty Crocker Super Moist, Low Fat, Include Spanish, Raisin Bran, Include Campbell, Orange Cappuccino, Daily Food Choices, French Style Coffee, Suisse Mocha, Include Pan de Huevo, Include Alba, Food Guide Pyramid, Include Mexican, Include Snackwells, Include Nestle's Quik Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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