Ebook: Nutrition For Dummies

Updated with the latest available research and the new 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines

You are what you eat: no, really—it’s a scientific fact! Good nutrition is your meal-ticket to staying sleek, healthy, and strong—both physically and mentally. Nutrition For Dummies, 7th Edition is a one-size-fits-all guide to nutrition that shows you how to maintain a healthy weight, promote health, and prevent chronic disease. This book gives you the know-how to put together a shopping list, prepare healthy foods, and easily cut calories.

Veteran author and nutrition columnist Carol Ann Rinzler serves up a full course in making your diet nutritionally sound. Along the way, she dips into the science of how to eat at different stages of life—including new guidance for pregnant women, infants, and toddlers—the latest in peanut allergies, the effects of cholesterol on the brain, and the cutting-edge thinking on obesity.

• Take control of your diet
• Discover the truth about sugar
• Get the science on obesity and dementia
• Take a new look at eating disorders

No matter which way you slice it, you have to eat—so why not learn how to do it well and enjoy life even more in the process!