Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies, Myplate Update

Updated to include the 2010 Dietary Guidelines, MyPlate, and Healthy People 2020 coverage into the text, NUTRITION: CONCEPTS AND CONTROVERSIES, MYPLATE UPDATE, provides practical applications and accessible explanations to dispel common misconceptions about nutrition and empower readers to make lasting behavior changes.

Frances Sizer, M.S., RD, FADA, is certified as a charter Fellow of the American Dietetic Association. She is also a founding member and vice president of Nutrition and Health Associates, a Florida-based information and resource center that maintains an online bibliographic database tracking system that conducts research in more than 1,000 topic areas of nutrition. In addition to the best-selling NUTRITION: CONCEPTS AND CONTROVERSIES, Sizer was a primary author of the first ever instructional and animated NUTRITION INTERACTIVE CD-ROM (Cengage Wadsworth). Her previous publications include NUTRITION CLINICS, a monograph series for health professionals, and the college text THE FITNESS TRIAD: MOTIVATION, TRAINING, AND NUTRITION. In addition to writing, enjoying her family, and schooling her horse in dressage, Sizer is also an active board member of ECHO, a local hunger and homelessness relief organization in her community. Sizer received her B.S. and M.S. in nutrition from Florida State University.

Ellie Whitney taught biology at both Florida State University and Florida A&M University. An avid writer, she published numerous articles on environmental matters, and coauthored almost a dozen college textbooks on nutrition, health, and related topics. Now retired, Dr. Whitney focuses her efforts on climate change, volunteering full-time for the nonpartisan Citizens Climate Lobby. She earned her BA in English at Harvard and her PhD in Biology at Washington University.