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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The Basics of Opioids and Opioid Addiction
Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein
in The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are opioids?
Opioids are a group of chemical compounds that can reduce pain, cause sensations of pleasure, and induce sleep. To have these and other effects on the human ...
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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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Criminal Justice Policy and the Opioid Epidemic
Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein
in The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is the war on drugs?
The “war on drugs” refers to the primary US approach to addressing drug use since the early 1970s. While its roots can be traced to the anti-drug ...
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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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Harm Reduction Policy for the Opioid Epidemic
Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein
in The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is harm reduction?
Harm reduction is “a set of practical strategies aimed at reducing negative consequences associated with drug use.” It is also “a movement for social ...
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A Historical Perspective on the Opioid Epidemic
Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein
in The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know®
When did the opioid epidemic start?
Some point to January 10, 1980, as the first day of America’s opioid epidemic. That’s when the New England Journal of Medicine published a ...
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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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Misuse of Opioids
Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein
in The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What is misuse of opioids?
Use of opioids outside of legitimate medical care is illegal in the United States. The medical and public health term for this is misuse. Misuse takes ...
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Opioid Addiction
Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein
in The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What causes opioid addiction?
Just like it is true that not everyone who smokes will develop lung cancer, it is true that not everyone who takes or even misuses an opioid will ...
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Opioid Overdose
Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein
in The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What affects the risk of opioid overdose?
Several factors influence the risk of overdose from opioids, including a person’s level of tolerance; the amount, potency, and type of ...
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Opioids and Families
Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein
in The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What do I do if I suspect my family member is misusing opioids?
Family members are often the first to notice that there is something amiss with their loved ones. Parents might ...
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Opioids and Pregnancy
Yngvild Olsen and Joshua M. Sharfstein
in The Opioid Epidemic: What Everyone Needs to Know®
What are the risks of opioid exposure during pregnancy?
Opioids cross the placenta. That means when a pregnant woman consumes opioids, some pass through to her developing fetus.
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