It seems that practically every day there is news about some new super-nutrient, super diet, or super food that promises to help us to be healthier, smarter, happier, fight disease, lose weight, or live longer. Some of this information propels temporary food or diet fads, some of it is subsequently discredited, and some becomes staid wisdom of healthy eating. Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know® sorts through this information and looks at food systems globally and historically, providing an overview of the relationship between humans, the environment, and food.
It seems that practically every day there is news about some new super-nutrient, super diet, or super food that promises to help us to be healthier, smarter, happier, fight disease, lose weight, or live longer. Some of this information propels temporary food or diet fads, some of it is subsequently discredited, and some becomes staid wisdom of healthy eating. Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know® sorts through this information and looks at food systems globally and historically, providing an overview of the relationship between humans, the environment, and food.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
P.K. Newby, ScD, MPH, MS, is a nutrition scientist and gastronome whose multidisciplinary training spans the biological, social, and public health sciences, creating a unique and refreshing perspective when thinking about today's food problems and their potential solutions. She is also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Harvard, where she is an award-winning educator. Her mission is to help people live their healthiest, most delicious lives.
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* PREFACE: WHY IS NUTRITION CONFUSING, AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT? * * ACKNOWLEDGMENTS * * Part I Why What We Eat Matters: Farm to Fork * 1. Framing Today's Food and Nutrition Issues * 2. Global Food and Nutrition Challenges: People and Planet * * Part II Dining Throughout Human History: Science, Technology, Eater, Environment * 3. How Revolutions, Discoveries, and Inventions Shape Our Diet: Paleo to Present * 4. Contemporary Food Production, Buzzwords, and Pop Nutrition: Fact or Fiction? * 5. Diets and Food Environments Today: Why We Eat the Way We Do * * Part III Essential Food and Nutrition: Separating Science from Junk Science * 6. A Brief History of Nutrition: Scientific Discoveries and Applications * 7. Small and Mighty: Vitamins, Minerals, and Phytonutrients * 8. The Foundation of Nutrition: Carbohydrate, Fat, and Protein * * Part IV Food, Glorious Food * 9. Creating a Colorful Plate: Vegetables and Fruits * 10. Whole Grains, Refined Grains, and Gluten * 11. Plant Protein Power: Beans and Peas, Legumes and Pulses, Nuts and Seeds * 12. Land Animals and Animal-Based Foods * 13. Water Dwellers: Fish and Seafood * 14. Water, Coffee, and Tea: Impacts on Health and Environment * 15. Alcohol and Health: Cheers!? * 16. Sweet Drinks: Fruit, Juice, Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, and Diet Soda (Pop) * * Part V Diets for Optimal Health, Longevity, and Sustainability: Today and Tomorrow * 17. Putting It All Together: Creating a Health-Giving Diet that Works for You, for Life * 18. The Future of Food and Nutrition * * NOTES SELECTED REFERENCES * INDEX
* PREFACE: WHY IS NUTRITION CONFUSING, AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT? * * ACKNOWLEDGMENTS * * Part I Why What We Eat Matters: Farm to Fork * 1. Framing Today's Food and Nutrition Issues * 2. Global Food and Nutrition Challenges: People and Planet * * Part II Dining Throughout Human History: Science, Technology, Eater, Environment * 3. How Revolutions, Discoveries, and Inventions Shape Our Diet: Paleo to Present * 4. Contemporary Food Production, Buzzwords, and Pop Nutrition: Fact or Fiction? * 5. Diets and Food Environments Today: Why We Eat the Way We Do * * Part III Essential Food and Nutrition: Separating Science from Junk Science * 6. A Brief History of Nutrition: Scientific Discoveries and Applications * 7. Small and Mighty: Vitamins, Minerals, and Phytonutrients * 8. The Foundation of Nutrition: Carbohydrate, Fat, and Protein * * Part IV Food, Glorious Food * 9. Creating a Colorful Plate: Vegetables and Fruits * 10. Whole Grains, Refined Grains, and Gluten * 11. Plant Protein Power: Beans and Peas, Legumes and Pulses, Nuts and Seeds * 12. Land Animals and Animal-Based Foods * 13. Water Dwellers: Fish and Seafood * 14. Water, Coffee, and Tea: Impacts on Health and Environment * 15. Alcohol and Health: Cheers!? * 16. Sweet Drinks: Fruit, Juice, Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, and Diet Soda (Pop) * * Part V Diets for Optimal Health, Longevity, and Sustainability: Today and Tomorrow * 17. Putting It All Together: Creating a Health-Giving Diet that Works for You, for Life * 18. The Future of Food and Nutrition * * NOTES SELECTED REFERENCES * INDEX
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