Learn how the chemicals and compounds you encounter every day can lead to unexpected health complications and life-threatening disorders. Health and Nutrition Secrets presents the latest information about strokes and heart attacks, diabetes, protecting the digestive system, and the best ways to keep the immune system young and powerful. New revised edition has chapter on [...]
This textbook provides the reader with thorough coverage of the role nutrition plays in enhancing one’s health, fitness, and sport performance. Current research and practical activities are incorporated throughout. About the Author Melvin Williams is the Director of Human Performance Laboratory at Old Dominion University, and has more than 30 years of lab research with [...]
Offers objective data on nutrition and health issues. A typical issue could contain notes on “fake fat news,” longer articles covering food and pesticides, a consumer report on “picking a pasta sauce,” and questions and answers about common eating problems. An accurate report for all libraries. Offers objective data on nutrition and health issues. A [...]
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This Telly Award winner for Best Educational Video is presented by the Standard Deviants academic team, which includes professors from major universities. Presenting the subject of human nutrition, this video is a useful resource for high school or college students in their academic success. It provides a comprehensive overview of nutrition basics and study techniques, [...]
Food exists in abundance today, but what are we eating? Foods with fiber, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and the critically important omega-3 fatty acids? Or foods without them? Startling research in the journal Food Review shows that today a full 50 percent of the vegetables we eat consist of the trimmings on a hamburger and a [...]