Study Guide for Nutrition Concepts & Controversies, 7th: Concepts and Controversies

Sizer, Frances Sienkiewicz,Whitney, Eleanor Noss

ISBN 10: 0314209956 / ISBN 13: 9780314209955

Published by Brooks Cole, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Study Guide for Nutrition Concepts & Controversies, 7th: Concepts and Controversies
• Publisher: Brooks Cole
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0314209956
• ISBN 13: 9780314209955
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This non-majors introductory text provides basic nutrition information and controversial topics. The new edition emphasizes the food pyramid vs. the exchange system as a tool for diet planning and includes the latest food labeling information. Over 300 new foods are added to the Table of Food Composition, including ethnic foods, fast foods, low/no-fat foods and new brands.

About the Author

Frances Sienkiewicz Sizer Webb, MS, RD, FADA, attended Florida State University where, in 1980, she received her B.S., and in 1982, her M.S. in nutrition. She is certified as a charter Fellow of the American Dietetic Association. She is a founding member and vice president of Nutrition and Health Associates, an information and resource center in Tallahassee, Florida, that maintains an online bibliographic database tracking research in more than 1,000 topic areas in nutrition. She is the author of the best-selling NUTRITION CONCEPTS AND CONTROVERSIES, TENTH EDITION and was a primary author of NUTRITION INTERACTIVE, an instructional college-level nutrition CD-ROM, both with Thomson Wadsworth). Her previous publications include NUTRITION CLINICS, a mongraph 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, she lectures at universities and at national and regional conferences, and serves actively on the board of directors of ECHO, a local hunger and homelessness relief organization her community.