Table of Contents

1.  The Role of Nutrition in Our Health

2.  Designing a Healthful Diet

3.  The Human Body: Are We Really What We Eat?

4.  Carbohydrates: Bountiful Sources of Energy and Nutrients

          In-Depth: Alcohol

5.  Lipids: Essential Energy-Supplying Nutrients

6.  Proteins: Crucial Components of All Body Tissues

7.  Metabolism: From Food to Life

         In-Depth: Vitamins & Minerals: Micronutrients with Macro Powers

8. Nutrients Involved in Energy Metabolism

9.  Nutrients Involved in Fluid and Electrolyte Balance

10. Nutrients Involved in Antioxidant Function

         In-Depth: Phytochemicals and Functional Foods

11.  Nutrients Involved in Bone Health

12.  Nutrients Involved in Blood Health and Immunity

13.  Achieving and Maintaining a Healthful Body Weight

        In-Depth: Disordered Eating

14.  Nutrition and Physical Activity: Keys to Good Health

15.  Food Safety and Technology: Impact on Consumers

16.  Nutrition Through the Life Cycle: Pregnancy and the First Year of Life

17.  Nutrition Through the Life Cycle: Childhood and Adolescence

18.  Nutrition Through the Life Cycle: The Later Years

19.  Global Nutrition

Appendices

Answers to Review Questions

Glossary

Index

Credits

About the Author

Janice L. Thompson, Ph.D., FACSM

University of Bristol, University of New Mexico

Janice Thompson is Professor of Public Health Nutrition at the University of Bristol, England. Her work in the United Kingdom focuses on developing nutrition and physical activity interventions to reduce the risk for chronic diseases in high-risk populations. She retains her affiliation with the University of New Mexico through consulting on nutrition and physical activity research with the Office of Native American Diabetes Programs at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. While she was based at U. New Mexico, she conducted research on how nutrition and physical activity interventions reduce diabetes risk in Native American populations, mentored junior faculty in research, and taught nutrition courses.

Janice is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), is currently Vice President of ACSM, is a member of the American Society for Nutrition (ASN), the Nutrition Society (UK), and the British Association for Sport and Exercise Science (BASES). Janice won an undergraduate teaching award while a faculty member at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. 

Janice has published two other books, with Melinda Manore, through Pearson Benjamin Cummings: Nutrition: An Applied Approach, geared toward nonmajors, and Nutrition for Life, a consumer-oriented text, now both in second editions.

Melinda M. Manore, Ph.D, RD, CSSD, FACSM

Oregon State University

Melinda Manore is a professor in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Sciences at Oregon State University, Corvallis, where she teaches and conducts research in nutrition and exercise. She served as Chair of the nutrition department until 2004. Before coming to Oregon State, she taught at Arizona State University for seventeen years. Melinda’s areas of specialization include nutritional requirements and issues for active women, nutrition assessment, and the role that nutrition and exercise play in health, energy balance, obesity, and disordered eating.

A registered dietitian (RD), Melinda is an active member of the American Dietetic Association (ADA). She is Past Chair of the ADA Research Committee and the Research DPG (Dietetic Practice Group) and a Certified Specialist in Sport Dietetics (CSSD). She is also active in the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), where she is a Fellow and currently Vice President. Melinda is a member of the American Society of Nutrition (ASN), the North American Association for the Study of Obesity (NASSO), and served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Military Nutrition Research.

Melinda is an associate editor for ACSM’s Health and Fitness Journal, where she wrote a nutrition column for 5 years, and the International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism. She is also a former associate editor of Medicine and Science in Sport and Exercise. She has won numerous awards for excellence in research and teaching. While at Arizona State University, she was nominated for the Distinguished Mentor of Women Award (1996), and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Alumni Association Outstanding Teaching Award (1998, 2000). In 2001, she received the ADA SCAN Excellence in Practice Award and in 2009 she received the Oregon Dietetic Association Outstanding Dietition of the Year Award.  Melinda co-authored, with Janice Thompson, two other books through Pearson Benjamin Cummings: Nutrition: An Applied Approach, geared toward nonmajors, and Nutrition for Life, a consumer-oriented text, now both in second editions.

Linda A. Vaughan, Ph.D, R.D.

Arizona State University

Linda Vaughan is Professor and past Chair of the Department of Nutrition at Arizona State University (ASU). Linda earned her doctorate at University of Arizona in agricultural biochemistry and nutrition. She currently serves in an administrative position within ASU’s College of Nursing and Health Innovation, teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in nutrient metabolism, advises graduate students, and conducts research on the nutrient content of donated/distributed food from community food banks. Her area of specialization is older adults and lifecycle nutrition.

Linda is an active member of the American Dietetic Association (ADA), the American Society of Nutrition Sciences, and the Arizona Dietetic Association. She has served as Chair of the Research and Dietetic Educators of Practitioners practice groups of the American Dietetic Association as well as serving in the ADA House of Delegates. Linda has received numerous awards, including the Arizona Dietetic Association Outstanding Educator Award, the CLAS Alumni Outstanding Educator Award, and the University of Arizona East Supervisor of the Year award.