Nutrition & You: Core Concepts for Good Health is an exciting new title in the introductory consumer nutrition market. Drawing on the strengths cultivated in Joan Salge Blake’s majors and non-majors editions, this new text addresses the needs of the growing consumer market through a focused review of key nutrition topics and a hands-on, lively approach to useful information for everyday good nutrition and health.

Through the use of short, focused concepts rather than longer chapters, this text provides students with practical information and engaging tools that help them make positive changes in their nutrition and overall health, while covering the elements essential to a consumer-oriented introductory nutrition course. It exceeds key competitors in the market through its targeted content, useful features, lively readability, and accessible design–all intended to engage students and encourage them to apply this new knowledge to their daily lives.

Features

• This text is structured into highly adaptable, brief, key “Concepts,” rather than traditional chapters, allowing instructors maximum flexibility in suiting the course to their needs by breaking the content into flexible, core components.
• A lively and modern graphic treatment gives this book a readable and engaging “magazine feel” that will appeal to general-interest students.
• Visual Summary Tables are easy-to-navigate, visually-engaging spreads that incorporate photos, illustrations, and text in an overview of key topics including Carbohydrates, Protein, Lipids, Vitamins, and Minerals. Each subject is covered in a consistent format (including form, function, daily needs, food sources, toxicity and deficiency effects, and key terms) in an easy-to-review layout. This innovative presentation  makes learning and referencing the topics simple, and enables students to identify at a glance the key aspects of each nutrient.   
• Table Tips provide easy-to-follow suggestions that students can use to easily incorporate key nutrients into their daily diets.
• Rate Yourself provides students with self-assessments to help them better determine their current nutritional habits and identify areas for improvement.
• Chapter-opening Quizzes target myths and misperceptions about nutrition and health.
• The Take Home Message revisits key information throughout each Concept as it unfolds and crystallizes information into bite-sized, relevant summaries.
• Top 5 Points to Remember boils down the key aspects at the end of each Concept in a handy list format. 
• Food Source Diagrams, featured within most Visual Summary Tables, are tied to MyPyramid, the USDA-based food reference guide. Students can easily track how many common foods relate to the food groups within the pyramid, and determine the best food sources for each nutrient.
• Each Concept starts with a Campus Corner feature, highlighting diverse young people with varying health, nutrition, and lifestyle issues that students can relate to and learn from.
• Boxed Features in every Concept highlight significant, controversial or unexpected aspects of the content and delve into greater detail.
• UCook and UDo are hands-on features highlighted at the end of each Concept. UCook features delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes built around each Concept’s content, located on the Companion Website. UDo provides strategies for making positive personal nutrition choices, emphasizing ease, variety, and appropriateness for a college community.
• Test Yourself, a review of content organized as key questions and answers, along with practical Web Resources, appear at the end of each Concept.

Table of Contents

1. Why You Eat What You Eat

2. What is Nutrition?

3. Nutrition Claims: Sorting Fact from Fiction

4. Tools for Healthy Eating

5. Food Labels: Cracking the Code

6. Digestion: How Food Becomes Nutrition

7. Carbohydrates: Facts to Know

8. Carbohydrates: Foods to Eat

9. Diabetes: A Growing Epidemic

10. Fats: Facts to Know

11. Fats: Foods to Eat

12. Eat to Beat Heart Disease

13. Proteins: Facts to Know

14. Proteins: Foods to Eat

15. Vegetarian Diets: What to Eat When You Don’t Eat Meat

16. Vitamins: Small but Powerful

17. Minerals: Essential Elements

18. Water: Facts to Know, Fluids to Drink

19. Alcohol: The Real Story

20. Healthy Weight: What Is It and How Do You Maintain It?

21. Overweight and Obesity: Fighting the Factors that Put On Weight

22. Underweight and Disordered Eating: When Eating Enough is a Challenge

23. Fighting Cancer with a Knife and Fork

24. Focus on Fitness

25. Eat to Compete

26. Supplements and Functional Foods: Are They Right for You?

27. Food Safety

28. Food Insecurity

29. Life Cycle Nutrition: Pregnancy Through Infancy

30. Life Cycle Nutrition: Childhood Through the Later Years

Appendices

Glossary

Index

Credits