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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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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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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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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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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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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Small and Mighty: Vitamins, Minerals, and Phytonutrients
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are vitamins?
Vitamins are organic compounds (i.e., contain carbon) essential for life that must be obtained in the diet because they cannot be synthesized by the body. They ...
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Sweet Drinks: Fruit Juice, Sugar-Sweetened Beverages, and Diet Soda (POP)
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
How many sugar-sweetened beverages are we drinking, and are they related to obesity?
Beverages comprise 47% of added sugar intakes in American diets, of which 39% come from ...
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Water Dwellers: Fish and Seafood
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the nutritional benefits of seafood?
Like other animal foods, fish and shellfish are excellent sources of protein, as well as a number of B-complex vitamins, vitamin D, ...
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Water, Coffee, and Tea: Impacts on Health and Environment
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
Why is water essential for life, and how much do we need?
Water is the sixth essential nutrient required for life. Our bodies are approximately 60% water, about 75% in infants and ...
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Whole Grains, Refined Grains, and Gluten
P.K. Newby
in Food and Nutrition: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are cereal grains and “pseudograins”?
Grains like wheat, corn, oats, and rice are cereal grasses, the fruit or seed of the grass family; many grains are thus referred to as ...
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