The Smart Guide to Nutrition

The Smart Guide to Nutrition teaches you the basics of nutrition, so you can make the right choices in choosing healthy foods and learn to avoid common eating mistakes The Smart Guide to Nutrition gives you all the essential information for understanding how your body uses nutrients, where nutrients go in the body, and how you can optimize your dietary choices and calories. Author Anne Maczulak, PhD in Nutrition, covers the main topics of nutrition, starting with the essential nutrients needed by all cells and building your knowledge of whole body nutrition. This Smart Guide offers a quick reference to the carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals your body needs as well as water and energy. By reading this Smart Guide, you will learn how to make sound food choices for staying healthy, boosting the imune system, fighting disease, and aging. The Smart Guide to Nutrition introduces you to the essential, or required, nutrients. It explains exactly how your body uses these nutrients. By learning the truth about how your body's cells use nutrients, you can make better choices in avoiding dangerous fad diets, in considering certain processed foods, and in knowing the facts about dietary supplements. The Smart Guide to Nutrition gives you the all the facts you need to know on nutrients and nutrition. With this book as your guide, you can dispel food myths and steer clear of harmful diets, products, and pitches. Learn nutrition the right way, by beginning with the facts of nutrient chemistry in your body. Diets may come into and out of fashion, but the body's nutrition never changes. This Smart Guide will help you know the basics of human nutrition.