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This popular, student-praised book presents important nutrition concepts in brief, understandable units that make it easy to apply the information to your own diet and lifestyle. Brown's Nutrition Now is fascinating to read and filled with topics that you ---- as a student of nutrition and interested in health ---- will find important and very applicable to your dietary habits and overall well being. Each unit covers all of the basics you'll need to study and includes new information on:
- The latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans and new MyPyramid tools
- New and revised dietary recommendations for heart disease, hypertension, cancer and physical performance
- How vitamins and antioxidants from foods can help optimize your health, not just prevent deficiency
- Dietary supplements as related to health and fitness
- Nutrigenomics ---- how your genes and diets interact to promote health or disease
- Obesity, diabetes in youth, and the world obesity epidemic
- Organic foods
- Food biotechnology and food safety
- Food labeling regulations