Nutrition: Everyday Choices [Paperback]

Mary B. Grosvenor (Author), Lori A. Smolin (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0471668761 | ISBN-13: 978-0471668763 | Publication Date: February 21, 2005 | Edition: 1

Nutrition: Everyday Choices provides students with the decision-making skills needed throughout their lifespan to navigate the myriad of choices they will face in promoting their good health and in preventing disease. A critical thinking approach and a solid underpinning of the process of science empowers students to be knowledgeable consumers when faced with diverse information about emerging diseases such a SARS, biotech foods and gene therapy. As students apply the thought processes and decision-making skills learned throughout the course, they come to understand that there are not "good" foods and "bad" foods, but rather that each choice is only part of an overall healthy diet and that it is the sum of those choices that determines good nutrition.

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About the Author

Mary B. Grosvenor, M.S., R.D. Mary Grosvenor received her B.A. degree in English from Georgetown University and her M.S. in Nutrition Sciences from the University of California at Davis. She is a registered dietitian with experience in public health, clinical nutrition, and nutrition research. She has published in  peer-reviewed journals in the areas of nutrition and cancer and methods of assessing dietary intake. She has taught introductory nutrition at the community college level and currently lives with her family in a small town in Colorado. She is continuing her teaching and writing career and is till involved in nutrition research via the electronic superhighway.

Lori A. Smolin, Ph.D. Lori Smolin received her B.S. degree from Cornell University, where she studied human nutrition and food science. She received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her doctoral research focused on B Vitamins, homocysteine accumulation, and genetic defects in homocysteine metabolism. She complete postdoctoral training both at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where she studied human obesity, and at the University of California at San Diego, where she studied genetic defects in amino acid metabolism. She has published in these areas in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Smolin is currently at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches both in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. Courses she has taught include introductory nutrition, lifecycle nutrition, food preparation, nutritional biochemistry, and introductory biology.

Product Details

• Paperback: 672 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 21, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471668761
• ISBN-13: 978-0471668763
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #284,913 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Text that transcends learning to everyday life, June 5, 2008

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Timothy Lassiter "Timothy" (Moodus, Connecticut) - See all my reviews

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I originally had to read this book when I went back to college for my second degree. I am a nurse in a small private practice, and realized that this text was wonderful in explaining the different ways in which people could work to having better nutrition, and what's more, was excellent in explaining why. This book explains everything, from digestion of different kinds of foods to the way in which cholesterol is stored in the body. I found this book so useful, that I ended up buying it for my practice so that I can show and teach my patients in our nutritional education classes.

This book is not only a "must read" for students, but is extremely helpful for everybody who is interested in eating better and living healthier.

Timothy Lassiter, author of Three Degrees of Separation and The Devil You Know

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very complete, March 13, 2007

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This review is from: Nutrition: Everyday Choices (Paperback)

This book proved to be very complete in its explanation of nutrition and its effects. This may be menial, but I was disappointed that there seemed to not be a hardcover option to this book. My books always end up not looking their best after I'm done with them, so I prefer hardcovers. All in all it is helping immensely with the Nutrition & Food Science course I'm taking now, since it illustrates well what I do not understand from my instructor. Hope it helps YOU!!

3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars For Class, October 4, 2005

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K. Bartel "lionessr135" (CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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I had to get this book for my required nutrition class (a GE ). Anyway the book reads like a science book. It's pretty decent overall and easy to understand/follow.