Grosvenor, Mary B.

Visualizing nutrition : everyday choices / Mary B. Grosvenor, Lori A. Smolin. - Hoboken, NJ : [Washington, D.C.] : Wiley ; In collaboration with the National Geographic Society, c2010. - xxix, 603 pages . : illustrations. (chiefly colour.), col. maps ; 28 cm. - Wiley visualizing . - Wiley visualizing. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nutrition: everyday choices -- Guidelines for a healthy diet -- Digestion: from meals to molecules -- Carbohydrates: sugars, starches, and fibers -- Lipids: fats, phospholipids, and sterols -- Proteins and amino acids -- Vitamins -- Water and minerals -- Energy balance and weight management -- Nutrition, fitness, and physical activity -- Nutrition during pregnancy and infancy -- Nutrition from 1 to 100 -- How safe is our food supply? -- Feeding the world.

9780470197585 (pbk.) 0470197587 (pbk.) 9780470556528 (BRV)

2009035918


Nutrition--Textbooks.

QP 141 / .G767 2010

613