Alcohol and Health: Cheers!?
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How is alcohol handled in the body?
Alcohol is among the only drugs consumed regularly in the diet other than caffeine. It is water-soluble and distributed into all tissues and ...
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A Brief History of Nutrition: Scientific Discoveries and Applications
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How do we know what we know about food and health?
We eat every day, and we know how food makes us feel. Perhaps because of this, many overlook that nutrition is a discipline ...
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Competitive Sport: Education or Mis-Education?
Robert L. Simon
in The Ethics of Sport: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Is there an historical connection between sport and education?
In the West at least, organized competitive sport goes back beyond the founding of the Olympic Games in ancient ...
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Concluding Comment: The Two Sides of the Force, or Are Sports So Great after All?
Robert L. Simon
in The Ethics of Sport: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Are the core values of sport always morally good ones?
The mutualist presents sports as ethically defensible and even as promoting human flourishing. Some wonder: doesn’t this ...
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Contemporary Food Production, Buzzwords, and Pop Nutrition: Fact or Fiction?
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are “processed” foods, and how do they fit into a healthy diet?
Food processing transforms raw agricultural crops into food products. For many, “processed foods” carries a ...
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Creating a Colorful Plate: Vegetables and Fruits
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How do vegetables differ nutritionally?
Botanically, vegetables are the edible parts of plants and, thus, technically include fruits (the seed-containing, mature ovary). ...
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Diets and Food Environments Today: Why We Eat the Way We Do
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the influencers and major drivers of eating behavior and food choices in today’s world?
For millions of years during the course of evolution, the human diet was driven ...
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Enhancement, Technology, and Fairness in Competitive Sport
Robert L. Simon
in The Ethics of Sport: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the key issues raised by advances in technology and pharmacology in sports? What other areas raise issues about safety in sports, and how should they be addressed?
In the ...
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The Foundation of Nutrition: Carbohydrate, Fat, and Protein
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the different kinds of carbohydrates we eat?
Carbohydrates are so named because of their chemical composition, which includes carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Globally, the ...
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Framing Today’s Food and Nutrition Issues
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What’s this book about?
The Oxford Living Dictionary defines “food” as “a nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink or that plants absorb in order to maintain life ...
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The Future of Food and Nutrition
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How will we sustainably feed 10 billion people in 2050—and beyond?
Current estimates suggest that about 50% more food, feed, and biofuel is required to nourish about one-third more ...
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Global Food and Nutrition Challenges: People and Planet
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Who is affected by hunger, food insecurity, and malnutrition?
Global hunger has been decreasing steadily in recent years, from about 900 million in 2000 to 777 million in 2015, or ...
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Health, Safety, and Violence In Competitive Sport
Robert L. Simon
in The Ethics of Sport: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What concerns about health and safety might be raised about the social effects of recreational and elite sport?
There are many concerns that might be addressed in response to this ...
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How might legalization be achieved?
L. W. Sumner
in Physician-Assisted Death: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What kind of legal regime should advocates aim for?
The main business of this book is done. We have explored the nature, history, and ethics of physician-assisted death and the ...
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How Revolutions, Discoveries, and Inventions Shape Our Diet: Paleo to Present
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the Paleolithic diet? What did hunter–gatherers actually eat?
While “Paleo” diets may seem to be a 21st-century fad, the concept has solid scientific roots in the ...
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How should we think about death and dying?
L. W. Sumner
in Physician-Assisted Death: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How do we tell when death has occurred?
The answer to this question might seem straightforward: you are dead when you have stopped breathing and your heart has stopped beating. ...
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Land Animals and Animal-Based Foods
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What animals are consumed for food, and how do they differ nutritionally?
Between 1970 and 2011, the number of animals raised for food increased three-fold, from 7.3 billion to ...
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The Moral Significance of Sport
Robert L. Simon
in The Ethics of Sport: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Why is it important to study and analyze sports rather than just enjoying them? What can an analysis of ethical issues in sports contribute to our understanding of sports, and perhaps of ...
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Plant Protein Power: Beans and Peas, Legumes and Pulses, Nuts and Seeds
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are legumes, and why are they unique in nutrition and agriculture?
A legume is the fruit or seed of plants including beans (e.g., black, kidney, pinto, lima, fava, soy), peas ...
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Putting It All Together: Creating a Health-Giving Diet That Works for You, for Life
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Is focusing on individual nutrients and foods important for health?
Nutrition is a biomedical science with roots in analytical chemistry. As such, it has relied traditionally upon ...
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