Product Description
- 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 eatingfrom the worlds 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 womens 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 todays popular diets, and controlling emotional overeating
- Ways to blend nutrition with great tastein fun, easy ways
- And much more
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 healthnot only your physical health but also your emotional and mental well-being. Achieving fitness depends on adopting and maintaining smart food and lifestyle choicesand that's what this book is about. You'll discover how to eat and stay active for your optimum health while choosing nutritious, flavorful, and convenient foods that suit your needs and lifestyle.
Registered Dietitian Roberta Duyff has used up-to-date nutrition research to provide the most reliable answers to your food and nutrition questions. This new edition of the comprehensive, easy-to-use American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide is filled with everything from managing your weight for well-being to making wise choices at the supermarket or farmers' market to making healthy eating taste great.
Along with personal nutrition checkups, you'll find sound advice and solutions for choosing nutritious, flavorful foods. Plus you'll get all the latest information on:
- The Dietary Guidelines for Americans from USDA and USHHS, the MyPyramid guide and tips on how to use it, as well as guidelines from the American Heart Association
- Weight-management strategies and a science-based look at popular weight-loss plans and the phenomenon of emotional overeating
- Making smart eating fun for kids
- Eating and active living to slow the biomarkers of aging
- Eating to prevent and manage disease, including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and others
- Dealing with common food allergies and intolerances
- The effective use of dietary supplements, including herbals and other botanicals
- Making sense of today's health and nutrition news
American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide, Third Edition offers practical advice that can help you feel and look your best. Eating for health is one of the wisest decisions you'll ever makeget started now with this ultimate healthy-eating primer.
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