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Book cover image of Nutrition: Science and Applications by Lori A. Smolin

Authors: Lori A. Smolin, Mary B. Grosvenor
ISBN-13: 9780470524749, ISBN-10: 047052474X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: January 2010
Edition: 2nd Edition

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Author Biography: Lori A. Smolin

Lori Smolin received her B.S. degree from Cornell University, where she studied human nutrition and food science. She received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her doctoral research focused on B vitamins, homocysteine accumulation, and genetic defects in homocysteine metabolism. She completed postdoctoral training both at the Harbor–UCLA Medical Center, where she studied human obesity, and at the University of California at San Diego, where she studied genetic defects in amino acid metabolism. She has published in these areas in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Smolin is currently at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches both in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. Courses she has taught include introductory nutrition, lifecycle nutrition, food preparation, nutritional biochemistry, general biochemistry, and introductory biology.

Mary Grosvenor received her B.A. degree in English from Georgetown University and her M.S. in Nutrition Sciences from the University of California at Davis. She is a registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator who has worked in public health, clinical nutrition, and nutrition research as well as education. She teaches introductory nutrition at the community college level. She has published in peerreviewed journals in the areas of nutrition and cancer and methods of assessing dietary intake.

Book Synopsis

New from Wiley, profile provides you with a wonderful new software tool to accurately assess your current diet and exercise habits and help you determine ways to improve your nutritional profile. Among the many features of this dynamic new software are:

  • Nutrient values of over 26,000 foods, including many of the most popular food choices today, as well as ethnic and cultural choices

  • The ability to add foods in order to accurately track individual diets

  • Enhanced tools for analyzing physical activity to better calculate your energy balance

  • Animations and a photographic gallery to help ensure you comprehend just what a serving size is, and how different food measurements compare with one another.

  • Distinctive Features that support and expand on you understanding of nutrients-Whey Your Appetite and Nutrients Unwrapped

  • A Recipe Builder

  • Multiple reports that are easily exported.

Available both online and on a multi-platform CD-ROM

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Table of Contents

1Nutrition: Everyday Choices1
2Applying the Science of Nutrition25
3The Human Body: From Meals to Molecules54
4Carbohydrates: Sugars, Starches, and Fiber79
5Lipids: How Much of a Good Thing?113
6Protein: The Privileged Nutrient145
7Energy Balance and Weight Management176
8The Water-Soluble Vitamins216
9The Fat-Soluble Vitamins249
10The Internal Sea: Water and the Major Minerals270
11The Trace Minerals: Our Elemental Needs308
12Meeting Our Needs: Food, Fortified Foods, and Supplements335
13Fueling Fitness: Nutrition and Exercise361
14In the Beginning: Nutrition for Mothers and Infants394
15The Growing Years: Infancy to Adolescence426
16Nutrition and Aging: The Adult Years458
17How Safe Is Our Food Supply?483
18The Global View: Feeding the World516
App. ANutrient Composition of Foods
App. BStandards for Body Size
App. CNormal Blood Values of Nutritional Relevance
App. DSources of Information on Nutrition
App. ECanadian Recommendations and Guidelines
App. FNutrient Intake Recommendations by the World Health Organization
App. GU.S. Nutrition Recommendations
App. HEthnic Diet Planning Tools
App. IExchange Lists
App. JFood Labeling Information
App. KEnergy Expenditure for Various Activities
App. LConversions and Calculations
App. MAnswers to Critical Thinking Exercises
Glossary
Index

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