Crystal Clear Science + Compelling Applications = A Balanced Program for Teaching and Learning Now updated with the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES: FROM FUNDAMENTALS TO FOOD, 3rd Enhanced Edition clearly explains the scientific principles underlying nutrition while incorporating applications to promote a complete understanding of core concepts. This integrated approach provides a strong science foundation in a context relevant to students' daily lives and their careers. Supported by an impressive visual design, engaging case studies and interactive digital resources, NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES offers a unique, balanced program for teaching and learning. A Table of Food Composition booklet is included.

Nutritional sciences is a multidisciplinary field that explores the role of nutrients in the human body, the relationship between diet and health, and the ways in which food consumption affects our overall well-being. It encompasses the study of biochemistry, physiology, metabolism, and the socio-cultural aspects of food. Understanding these concepts is crucial for promoting healthy lifestyles and preventing diet-related diseases. At its core, nutritional sciences examines the essential nutrients that our bodies need to function optimally, including carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and water. Each nutrient plays a specific role in maintaining health, supporting growth, and preventing various health issues. For example, carbohydrates provide energy, proteins are vital for tissue repair and growth, and vitamins and minerals play key roles in metabolic processes and immune function. One of the fundamental principles of nutritional sciences is the concept of a balanced diet. A balanced diet includes a variety of foods that provide the necessary nutrients in the right proportions to support bodily functions. Understanding how to achieve this balance is critical for maintaining a healthy weight, boosting energy levels, and reducing the risk of chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

Molecular nutrition (the study of interactions between nutrients and various intracellular and extracellular molecules) is one of the most rapidly developing fields in nutritional science. Ultimately, molecular nutrition research will reveal how nutrients may affect fundamental processes such as DNA repair, cell proliferation, and apoptosis. This book is the only single complete volume available reviewing the field of molecular nutrition. It contains contributions from leading international experts, and reviews the most important and latest research from various areas of molecular nutrition.

Food and Nutrition Economics offers a much-needed resource for non-economists looking to understand the basic economic principles that govern our food and nutritional systems. It is a uniquely accessible and much-needed bridge between previously disparate fields. Grounding these lessons in contemporary issues such as soft drink taxes, food prices, convenience, nutrition education programs, and the food environment, Food and Nutrition Economics is an innovative and needed entry in the rapidly expanding universe of food studies, health science, and their related fields.

Thanks to increased knowledge about nutrition, many threats to human health have been curbed. But there is much more to be learned. This new volume identifies the most promising opportunities for further progress in basic and clinical research in the biological sciences, food science and technology, and public health. The committee identifies cross-cutting themes as frameworks for investigation and offers a history of nutrition and food science research with nine case studies of accomplishments. The core of the volume identifies research opportunities in areas likely to provide the biggest payoffs in enhancing individual and public health. The volume highlights the importance of technology and instrumentation and covers the spectrum from the effects of neurotransmitters on food selection to the impact of federal food programs on public health. The book also explores the training of nutrition and food scientists. This comprehensive resource will be indispensable to investigators, administrators, and funding decisionmakers in government and industry as well as faculty, students, and interested individuals.