Sunday, July 5, 2009
Autor : Carol Ann Rinzler
Nutrition For Dummies®, 4th Edition
Published by
Wiley Publishing, Inc.
111 River St.
Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774
review :
Nutrition For Dummies, 4th Edition, doesn’t aim to send you back to the classroom,
sit you down, and make you take notes about what to put on the table
every day from now until you’re 104 years old. You’re reading a reference
book, so you don’t have to memorize anything — when you want more info,
just jump in anywhere to look it up.
Instead, this book means to give you the information you need to make wise
food choices — which always means choices that please the palate and soul,
as well as the body. Some of what you’ll read here is really, really basic:
definitions of vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and — can
you believe this? — plain old water. You’ll also read tips about how to put
together a nutritious shopping list and how to use food to make meals so
good you can’t wait to eat them.
For those who know absolutely nothing about nutrition except that it deals
with food, this book is a starting point. For those who know more than a little
about nutrition, this book is a refresher course to bring you up to speed on
what has happened since the last time you checked out a calorie chart.
For those who want to know absolutely everything, this 4th edition of Nutrition
for Dummies book is UP TO DATE, with hot new info from the 2005 revisions
of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, new recommended daily allowances
for all the nutrients a healthy body needs, plus all the twisty “this is good for
you” and “this is really, really rotten” bits and pieces of food info that nutrition
scientists have come up with since, well, the last edition.
