The Nutritionist: Food Nutrition and Optimal Health

Use this valuable book to make better food/diet/nutrition supplement choices for your clients (and yourself)! The Nutritionist provides an overview of the basic concepts involved in nourishing the human body in an organized and progressive first-person question-and-answer format. Its eminently readable style and easy-to-understand graphics will enhance your comprehension of applied nutrition topics such as energy nutrients, vitamins, and minerals as well as energy metabolism and body composition, exercise, heart disease, and cancers. Healthcare professionals, personal trainers, nutritionists, and lay readers will all find valuable, easily understood information in The Nutritionist. The book lays the foundation with a review of the basic concepts of body composition and related scientific concepts, which are invaluable in understanding the nutrition information that follows. It examines molecules, chemical reactions, energy, acids and bases (p H), free radicals and oxidation, and water solubility. With this foundation, concepts such as lipoproteins (LDL, HDL, blood cholesterol), antioxidants, energy, metabolism, body composition, exercise, heart disease, and cancer are easily understandable. This unique book's first-person, question-and-answer style brings you quick access to current information about nutrition and: energy metabolism energy nutrients weight control body composition exercise vitamins and minerals nutrition supplements osteoporosis diabetes mellitus heart disease cancer and more! The Nutritionist provides straightforward answers to basic questions about the body and how to nourish it. Use it to make better choices for your clients and to help them reach the performance and health goals they set.Additional ISBNs0789014785, 0789014793, 0203048709, 9780789014788, 9780789014795, 9780203048702, 6611977902, 128197790X, 1136397558, 1136397485, 1136397620, 128388755X, 9786611977900, 9781281977908, 9781136397554, 9781136397486, 9781136397622, 9781283887557The Nutritionist: Food, Nutrition, and Optimal Health 1st Edition is written by Robert Wildman and published by Routledge. ISBNs for The Nutritionist are 9781136397554, 1136397558 and the print ISBNs are 9780789014795, 0789014793. Additional ISBNs include 0789014785, 0789014793, 0203048709, 9780789014788, 9780789014795, 9780203048702, 6611977902, 128197790X, 1136397558, 1136397485, 1136397620, 128388755X, 9786611977900, 9781281977908, 9781136397554, 9781136397486, 9781136397622, 9781283887557.