Table of Contents

1. The Food on Your Plate
2. Think Before You Eat: Developing a Nutrition Plan for Health
3. Carbohydrates: From Sugar to Fiber and All That’s in Between
4. Fats or Lipids: From Plate to Waist
5. Proteins: More than Just Meat and Muscle
6. Digestion, Absorption, & Metabolism: The Link Between Food and
7. Energy Energy Balance and Obesity: A Nation out of Balance
8. Water and Electrolytes: Striking a Balance
9. Vitamins: Fact and Fallacies
10. Minerals: Mining for Nutrients
11. Supplements: A little Bit of Science Goes a Long Way
12. Alcohol and Your Health: From Grain to Brain
13.  Assuring a Safe Food Supply: From Farm to Fork
14. Sports Nutrition: Fine Tuning a Good Thing
15. Eating Disorders Do No Discriminate
16. Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and Infants: The Foundations of a Healthy Future
17. As We Grow: Nutrition for Children, Adolescents and Older Adults