Following the tradition of its predecessor, the fifth edition of Nutrition: Maintaining and Improving Health continues to offer a wide-ranging coverage of all aspects of nutrition while providing new information to this edition including:

Following the tradition of its predecessor, the fifth edition of Nutrition: Maintaining and Improving Health continues to offer a wide-ranging coverage of all aspects of nutrition while providing new information to this edition including:

Increased coverage of experimental and observational methods used in nutrition

In-depth focus on the nutritional implications of the increased adoption of vegetarian and vegan lifestyles

Streamlined referencing - a short selected list of key references at the end of each chapter with URL links to free additional resources where possible

Discussion of nutrition debates

Critical coverage of "medicinal uses of food" including superfoods, functional foods and dietary supplements

Updated bullet point summaries of key points after each major topic within each chapter

The author provides an evidence-based evaluation of many key nutrition beliefs and philosophies. The book contains in-depth and critical reviews of the methods used to evaluate nutritional intakes/status and the observational and experimental used to investigate putative links between dietary factors and health o