Are You Eating Right?: Analyze Your Diet Using the Nutrient Content of More Than 5,000 Foods - Softcover

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All three received their degrees in Nutrition from the Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley. Suzanne Murphy, Ph.D., R.D., directs California's Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program. She also teaches and does research in the Dept. of Nutritional Sciences at the Univ. of Calif. at Berkeley and is a nationally recognized expert on the compilation and uses of food composition databases. She has published extensively on the dietary adequacy of both U.S. and international populations, and speaks to both professional and community organizations on these topics. She's also an avid jogger and bicyclist.

Sheri Bakun, B.S., teaches computer classes at Hillview Middle School. She co-authored Play Together, Learn Together, an award-winning computer book and disk for parents and children to use together, and, while working for the Department of Agriculture, several food technology research articles. Creating food composition tables, including the one in this book, combines her computer skills with her nutrition background. Her interests include hiking, cooking, and gardening. Judi Morrill, Ph.D., teaches in the Dept. of Nutrition and Food Science at San Jose State University, specializing in teaching science to non-scientists. She wrote Science, Physiology, and Nutrition-A Primer for the Non-scientist, co-authored Realities of Nutrition, and has worked in several research labs, including those of the National Institutes of Health and the Experimental Nutrition Division of the Agricultural Research Center. She enjoys writing, cooking, and playing tennis.

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How much fiber in an orange? Is it true that oysters are high in zinc? What's meant by a good diet? Is my diet as bad as I think it is? How do food labels help me assess my diet? Can I eat a good diet and junk food? Does 30% or less of my calories come from fat?

Eat for health AND pleasure! Easy to use and chock full of helpful information. Nutrient values given as % of Daily Value, just like food labels. Step-by-step guide for comparing your diet to the recommendations. Learn how to estimate your calorie requirement and assess your weight. Nutrient values for 23 nutrients in 5,000+ foods, including many ethnic foods.

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One goal of a healthy diet is to eat enough; another is to avoid eating too much. The first question-does my diet have all the nutrients I need?-is the easier question. Scientists know in much detail what nutrients we need, their functions, and how much we need. There are, of course, many unanswered questions, but not as many as advertisements for dietary supplements would have you believe. The other question-does my diet have too much of some nutrients?-is harder to answer. This question has to do with "chronic disease," such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes- diseases which are far more complex than those caused by the lack of a nutrient. A high-fat diet, for example, is linked with a higher risk of heart disease and some cancers. Though it isn't always certain that this is a cause-and-effect link, most of us have much to gain from following the advice to eat a low-fat diet. Such advice is the basis of the "prudent diet"-there are good reasons to believe that following the advice is healthful, and there are few, if any, reasons to believe it's harmful.