Nutrition For Dummies is for anyone who cares about what they eat, and wants to know about the facts, not the fads. Finding easy to understand and sensible advice on what you should be eating is easier said than done advice seems to constantly change and fad diets only seem to help celebrities pile on the pounds in their bank account, rather than making any of us healthier! In this book, Nigel Denby and Sue Baic, two experienced and registered dieticians, dispel all myths and provide you with the information you need to eat for a healthy life. They explain every aspect of the subject from the basics about essential nutrients to the relationship between allergies and food and give you the knowledge and confidence to start making wise food choices. Inside you ll find information on: The Basic Facts about Nutrition Digestion: The 24-Hour Food Factory Calories: The Energisers What You Get from Food Powerful Protein The Lowdown on Fat and Cholesterol Carbohydrates: A Complex Story Alcohol: Another Form of Grape and Grain Vigorous Vitamins Mighty Minerals Phabulous Phytochemicals Water Works Healthy Eating Why You Eat When You Eat Why You Like the Foods You Like What Is a Healthy Diet? Making Wise Food Choices Eating Smart When Eating Out What Is Food Processing? Cooking and Nutrition Food and Medicine When Food Gives You a Rash Food and Mood Food and Drug Interactions A Supplemental Story

Nutrition For Dummies is for anyone who cares about whatthey eat, and wants to know about the facts, not the fads.
Finding easy to understand and sensible advice on what youshould be eating is easier said than done - advice seems toconstantly change and fad diets only seem to help celebrities pileon the pounds in their bank account, rather than making any of ushealthier! In this book, Nigel Denby and Sue Baic, two experiencedand registered dieticians, dispel all myths and provide you withthe information you need to eat for a healthy life. They explainevery aspect of the subject from the basics about essentialnutrients to the relationship between allergies and food and giveyou the knowledge and confidence to start making wise foodchoices.

Inside you'll find information on:

The Basic Facts about Nutrition

Digestion: The 24-Hour Food Factory

Calories: The Energisers

What You Get from Food

Powerful Protein

The Lowdown on Fat and Cholesterol

Carbohydrates: A Complex Story

Alcohol: Another Form of Grape and Grain

Vigorous Vitamins

Mighty Minerals

Phabulous Phytochemicals

Water Works

Healthy Eating

Why You Eat When You Eat

Why You Like the Foods You Like

What Is a Healthy Diet?

Making Wise Food Choices

Eating Smart When Eating Out

What Is Food Processing?

Cooking and Nutrition

Food and Medicine

When Food Gives You a Rash

Food and Mood

Food and Drug Interactions

A Supplemental Story

Introduction.

Part I: The Basic Facts about Nutrition.

Chapter 1: What's Nutrition, Anyway?

Chapter 2: Digestion: The 24-Hour Food Factory.

Chapter 3: Why You Eat What You Eat and Like What You Like.

Part II: What You Get from Food.

Chapter 4: Powerful Protein.

Chapter 5: The Lowdown on Fat and Cholesterol.

Chapter 6: Calories: The Energisers.

Chapter 7: Carbohydrates: A Complex Story.

Chapter 8: The Alcohol Truth: The Whole Truth.

Chapter 9: Vigorous Vitamins.

Chapter 10: Mighty Minerals.

Chapter 11: Phabulous Phytochemicals.

Chapter 12: Water Works.

Part III: Healthy Eating.

Chapter 13: What Is a Healthy Diet?

Chapter 14: Making Wise Food Choices.

Chapter 15 : Ensuring Good Nutrition Whoever You Are.

Part IV: Processed Food.

Chapter 16: What Is Processed Food?

Chapter 17: Cooking and Keeping Food.

Chapter 18: Weird Science: Examining Food Additives.

Part V: Food and Health.

Chapter 19: Food and Allergies.

Chapter 20: Food and Mood.

Chapter 21: Food and Medicine.

Chapter 22: Food and Dietary Supplements.

Part VI: The Part of Tens.

Chapter 23: Ten Nutrition Web Sites You Can Trust.

Chapter 24: Ten Superfoods.

Chapter 25: Ten Fad Diets: The Truth Behind the Headlines.

Index.