Nutrition For Healthy Living

Nutrition for Better Living is really an excellent, comprehensive resource for basic information about all aspects of nutrition, designed for the beginning level student. As you might expect from a textbook it begins with the basics of nutrition then moves into more specific areas like physiology, dietary habits, individual analysis of nutrients, and so on. The text is heavily supported with plenty of graphics and charts, although sometimes they are superfluous (for example, pictures of different fruits as if you didn't know what the difference between an apple and a pineapple was) they do make the text look nice and are really helpful when you get into areas like anatomy and the digestive system.The information inside, although basic, is very thorough and useful. The book is written by a dietitian from a medical establishment dietitian's point of view. Alternative methods of nutrition management which don't comply with the accepted norm are at best questioned, at worst sneered at. While this is sometimes justified, it also means things like nutritional supplements and holistic nutrition are lumped together with late night weight loss infomercials. There is also a heavy reliance on current governmental nutrition management reports and programs like the unwieldy website ChooseMyPlate. This material doesn't add anything to the study of nutrition and seems to be there just as an obvious place to update for the next edition of the book (making all others obsolete, of course). Fortunately most of that is confined to the first few chapters.This is a fairly heavy, dense paperback book, about the size of an old LP. Like almost every textbook it is, of course, overpriced. Apart from the pound of flesh textbook world students face at the beginning of every semester from textbook publishers, this book would probably regularly retail for about 30-40 bucks. However, watching the used prices over the last several months has demonstrated, based on observations from Fall Semester 2013, that this book will hold it's value better than many others, so at least that is a positive thing. If it keeps going this way you may even be able to get a decent used copy for a decent price and at least break even on the resell. You don't see that very often. It is important to note that the information in this book is very complete and you may actually want to keep it as some of the other reviewers have opted to do.I did not get any additional material (CD, DVD, etc.) with this book and I'm not sure I was supposed to. If there is an online component of this text then I am not aware of it. If you are taking a class that involves assessment and testing online, your online material probably needs to be acquired separately. If there is a online component which just supports the text, then I can't imagine it being any more useful than just the text itself.

Just what my professor wanted. All Pages came in tact and there was no writing on the book. Came in good condition.

For my class at osu-okc we are using connect but unfortunately I expected the connect to come with it and now I have to buy it which kind of killed my savings....

I rented this book for an online nutrition course. It was an excellent resource and I would highly recommend it to anyone taking a basic nutrition course. The layout, use of graphics and most importantly information provided by this text was great.

I expected a new book but I recd a used book in great condition. Good enough for me! Thanks for it

I got this book as a rental for a class at college. After I have been studying it, I realize that it is one of those text books you probably could keep and use over and over.

I give it a 4

Chapters are complete and easy to understand. Interesting and applicable side articles. Very good to be used as a reference for meal planning, lots of tables and formulas for calculations. HInts for healthy eating and living.