- Paperback: 720 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 4 edition (Feb 3 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0470912073
- ISBN-13: 978-0470912072
- Product Dimensions: 25.1 x 20.3 x 4.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
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- #87 in Books > Cooking, Food & Wine > Special Diet > Diabetic & Sugar-Free
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Book Description
The new edition of the ADA's flagship food and nutrition guide—updated based on the very latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans
With over 200,000 copies sold in all editions, this award-winning resource from the world's leading authority on food and nutrition is packed with the latest healthy eating advice for those at every age and stage of life. In this completely revised and updated new edition, you'll find up-to-date, evidence-based, practical answers for your many food and nutrition questions.
This cornerstone guide from the American Dietetic Association, written by nationally recognized food and nutrition expert and registered dietitian Roberta Duyff, covers the basics on nutrition, managing weight, and healthy eating. It also provides easy steps and how-tos for selecting, preparing, and storing foods safely to get the most nutrition and flavor for your dollar, and more. Comprehensive, accessible, and easy-to-use, this valuable reference shows how to make healthy food choices to fit any lifestyle.
- How to put the the very latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans on food choices and physical activity into action
- Latest guidance to prevent and manage today's health concerns, such as heart disease, diabetes, cancer, food allergies, gluten intolerance, lactose intolerance, and many others
- Simple, practical tips and flexible food and nutrition skills that suit your needs and lifestyle with ways to apply advice from USDA's MyPlate
- Advice for healthy nutrition, eating, and cooking across the lifespan
- Covers vegetarian eating, healthy restaurant options, culinary nutrition and skills, healthy weight, nutrition supplements, and more
- Interactive self-checks and websites to help you assess your own food choices and take steps to healthy eating
From the Inside Flap
Being fit means a lot more than having a trim or muscular body and being free of health problems. It defines every aspect of your health—not only your physical health but also your emotional and mental well-being. Achieving fitness depends on adopting and maintaining smart food and lifestyle choices—and that's what this book is about. You'll discover how to eat and stay active for your optimum health while choosing nutritious, flavorful, and convenient foods that suit your needs and lifestyle.
Registered Dietitian Roberta Duyff has used up-to-date nutrition research to provide the most reliable answers to your food and nutrition questions. This new edition of the comprehensive, easy-to-use American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide is filled with everything from managing your weight for well-being to making wise choices at the supermarket or farmers' market to making healthy eating taste great.
Along with personal nutrition checkups, you'll find sound advice and solutions for choosing nutritious, flavorful foods. Plus you'll get all the latest information on:
- The Dietary Guidelines for Americans from USDA and USHHS, the MyPyramid guide and tips on how to use it, as well as guidelines from the American Heart Association
- Weight-management strategies and a science-based look at popular weight-loss plans and the phenomenon of emotional overeating
- Making smart eating fun for kids
- Eating and active living to slow the biomarkers of aging
- Eating to prevent and manage disease, including diabetes, heart disease, cancer, and others
- Dealing with common food allergies and intolerances
- The effective use of dietary supplements, including herbals and other botanicals
- Making sense of today's health and nutrition news
American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide, Third Edition offers practical advice that can help you feel and look your best. Eating for health is one of the wisest decisions you'll ever make—get started now with this ultimate healthy-eating primer. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Almost Baked,
By Aaauger (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
To be a reference, a book must have a decent index! So many publishers overlook this point. Having read through volumes of data, I remembered seeing interesting points but had a devil of a time locating them again. I had to literally leaf through the book a second time with sticky notes. Don't count on using this book as a reference. Do count on it for comprehensive nutritional information. (Just parse the dogma.) It is the best book I've read to date on nutrition: readable, thorough and pragmatic.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lead a lifestyle of health and well-being through nutrition,
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This review is from: American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide (Hardcover)
I have read the first edition prior to this one and it was such an informative book that I bought myself the second edition. Researching nutrition for years, I must say this has to be my favorite out of all other nutrition books I've encountered. Of course each book has its own purpose and flavor, but if you want a good entry book into health and overall well-being (for yourself and/or your family) driven by nutrition, this is the one you need. Through simple language and well-structured organization of the chapters, Duyff delivers a vast load of information mostly based on the Food Guide Pyramid, a guide used to quantitatively approximate the proportions of food consumed by categories. By no means is this a strict regimen of daily diet lists, however. The author covers the basics of food components to give a scientific/clinical basis for the nutrition guidelines suggested for good heath. You chose the specific foods yourself! The author also covers food shopping and preparations. Topics range from reading nutrition labels to preparation safety. Not only do you want to make sure you know the quality of food you are getting (by its chemical components) you also want to make sure your kitchen habits minimize your exposure to harmful bacterial contamination and other health risks. One of my favorite features of the discussions are the myth-dispelling and "ambiguous label claims" clarifications. After reading this book you will look at "what people say" in a completely different light. Also, if you want to know what supplements work and do not work, you will find it here. Special nutrition topics cover guidelines for people of different lifestyles. It includes ages from infants to the seniors. It even covers mothers and the special needs of women! Small sections discuss athletes, vegetarians, and allergies. Overall, to sum it up, I would say that this book is about using nutrition as part of your lifestyle to optimal health through disease prevention and enhanced physical energy (though these two seem to be somewhat synergistic). It is not about quick methods to loose weight or cures for ailments. If you want to lead a nutritious lifestyle based on physiological health and well-being, and you have the patience and persistence to stick to common principles for a long time, this book is definitely worth reading as well as keeping as a shelf reference.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good starting point, but dogmatic at times,
By "simonmba" (Rochester, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: American Dietetic Association Complete Food and Nutrition Guide (Hardcover)
This book provides an excellent presentation of the basics of nutrition as well as practical tips to improve health. With all the nutritional quackery floating around, this should be the first source you check to answer your concerns.That said, the author has a tendency to minimize evidence that contradicts the standard "FDA wisdom". For example, creatine is the only muscle-building supplement (other than illegal steroids) that has proved effective as a performance enhancer for weight lifters in independent studies. Ten years of studies show no serious side effects to taking creatine. The author argues that nobody should take creatine because there is a possibility adverse side effects will be discovered. That is true, but the same argument is used by irrational pureness religionists who condemn genetically modified foods because they might prove unsafe in the future. The same argument is used to justify all sorts of paranoia and pseudoscience. Rather than labeling creatine good or bad, the author should identify the proven benefits and potential risks and let the reader make a decision based on individual risk tolerance. Despite the occasional condemnation of things that are probably good, the author never recommends things that are probably bad (like Atkins and all the other quacks out there).
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