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Written and designed in a user-friendly split-page format where theory and practical application appear together, Nutrition for Life is the complete practical guide to every aspect of healthy eating. Explaining how to achieve a balanced diet, with recipes and sample menus throughout, this new home reference contains essential food facts, and focuses on good nutrition as a way of life. Nutrition for Life dispenses with unnecessary jargon to provide you with what really matters: straightforward information on every aspect of nutrition, based on clear principles-that good nutrition is the key to good health and preventing disease.
Format: Hardcover, 352 pages
Authors: Lisa Hark and Darwin Deen
Date Published: January 2005
The book features:
- All you need to know, from food basics to using diet to prevent and treat diseases
- No-nonsense analysis of over 45 diet programs, identifying the benefits and drawbacks of each so that you can see which works best for you
- Practical ways of ensuring a healthy diet, including lists of nutritional content in foods, together with questionnaires to assess your own eating habits and to implement change
- Case studies of real people, real problems, and real solutions-helping you put good eating habits into practice
- Sound guidance on all aspects of nutrition, from food fundamentals to vitamin supplements
- Nutrition for all age groups, from infants to senior citizens
- Advice on using food as medicine for high cholesterol, osteoporosis, diabetes, migrane and many other conditions
Published by Dorling Kindersley.
ABOUT DORLING KINDERSLEY PUBLISHING:
Since its creation in 1974 Dorling Kindersley has published books that are instantly recognizable to children and adults worldwide. Dorling Kindersley publishes an extensive range of both adult and children's reference titles - in effect 'cradle to grave' publishing. DK books encompass many subjects: gardening, conventional and holistic medicine, pregnancy & childcare, travel, cooking & wine, natural history, art, sports, popular culture, and languages. It includes manuals, encyclopedias, atlases, maps and handbooks. Dorling Kindersley has longstanding partnerships with prestigious organizations such as the AHS, AMA and Columbia University Press that lend weight to the authority of the books.
DK books include children's reference titles, covering a vast range of children's interests for every age group - dinosaurs, space, nature, history, religion, sport and science. In addition Dorling Kindersley publishes a number of richly illustrated and highly accessible encyclopedias for learners of every age.
The award-winning Eyewitness Books are the trademark series of Dorling Kindersley Publishing. These popular DK books began in 1988, never fail to inform, excite and inspire both children and adults alike. The series, which has sold over 50 million copies worldwide, is constantly expanding.
For the very young and pre-school children Dorling Kindersley publishes a fantastic selection of novelty and board books. The My First range of titles are particularly popular for their colorful design and their simple, bold approach and it's proven by the sales figures: over 1.75 million copies of the My First Word Book have been sold worldwide. Dorling Kindersley's novelty books include bath books, lift-the-flap books, sound books, touch & feel and scratch & sniff books which are purposely created to open children's imaginations.
In the future Dorling Kindersley will concentrate on what it does best - creating first class reference books with spectacular illustration. This formula has already made DK books among the best selling books in the illustrated non-fiction market.
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