Nutrition: Science and Applications

Using this college text for an advanced high school course on Nutrition. We calculated nutritional needs (calories and food choices) for the average student, the athlete, the person who needs to improve his diet, restrict calories, decrease fats, and we have been able to do extensive food label analysis using this book. Do you read and understand food labels? Understand RDA? This is a very good textbook, and my parent wants to keep it as a reference, because it contains information to be able to calculate caloric needs, explain food groups, and link to all current government nutrition websites, such as Choose My Plate.gov. She will be able to explain nutritional needs to her patients and their parents.A new edition is coming out this year, but this book is still current, and written by college nutrition professors.

Was written well and set up with great colorful pictures. Its a classroom text book. So expect heavy reading while having a book heavy enough to be a murder weapon.

It has what you need to pass your nutrition class in college. Any useful information? Hardly.On every page they lecture you on saturated fat intake, and tell you to eat more healthy whole grains. Choline is hardly mentioned. Bioavailability is hardly mentioned, neither is genetic differences, or antinutrients. Neither is food quality. These nutrition PhD's focus too much on individual nutrients that they forget about food quality.What's in this book is the same fluff that you could get from reading USDA's website.

Needed this for uni as it was no longer available in SA and because it is so useful finding second hand is almost impossible. There is a newer version out. Exactly as expected and as needed.

Great reference book.

Got the book for a nutrition class I was taking.We needed to get a newer edition that was abit more pricey so I went for this book and literally,it had all the information the new edition has.

Did not have to use book one tome for my class. But book was in decent condition.

Great for school and in depth info for those who want to know about nutrition.

First of all I was very happy and suprised with how quickly my book was delivered as I had selected free standard delivery on a Friday and my book was delivered by the Sunday morning. Secondly, the book is excellent and has so far helped me a lot in my university course.