Description
For many women, nutrition is more than a bit confusing. Diets abound, from the anti-heart disease diet to the PMS diet to the hundreds of weight loss diets. Nutrition for Women is a quick course guide that simplifies this nutrition puzzle, combining the best advice into an eating plan designed specifically to address many of the disorders unique to women.

Here readers will find the latest research on the role nutrition plays in the many stages of a woman's life, as well as the latest information on how to:

• Reduce the risk of osteoporosis, cancer, and heart disease
• Lose weight and keep it off Combat fatigue and boost energy
• Look and feel younger

This completely updated edition-based on the research of more than two thousand studies of women's health issues-cuts through the hype and dispels the myths, providing accurate, accessible information for every woman interested in the benefits of eating well. "At last there's a course written by a registered dietician that helps women make realistic food choices-all aimed at promoting health and preventing disease. This course is a must for everyone who cares about women's health issues.

Level: Basic
ISBN: 0805070818
ISBN-13: 9780805070811
Format: Paperback, 448pp
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated
Edition Description: Revised
Edition Number: 2
Pub date: 2002

Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Preface
Part I. How to Eat
Introduction
It's Not "All in Your Head"
Women's Diets: State of the Union
Nutrition in a Nutshell
It Pays to Eat Well
Chapter 1. Nutrition Basics Nutrition 101
Chapter 2. The Healthy Woman's Diet
Chapter 3. Supermarket Savvy
Chapter 4. Healthy, Quick-Fix Cooking
Chapter 5. Eating Out
Chapter 6. Everything You Need to Know about Supplements
Chapter 7. Staying Slim: Losing Weight for Good
Chapter 8. Changing Habits
Chapter 9. Nutrition, Exercise, and Sports
Chapter 10. Pregnancy and Breast-Feeding
Chapter 11. The Mature Woman What Is Menopause?
Chapter 12. Nutrition after Sixty-Five: The Antiaging Lifestyle
Chapter 13. Women, Nutrition, and Medications
Chapter 14. What Causes Disease? Free Radicals, Antioxidants, and Other Liberators
Chapter 16. Other Health Conditions
Glossary
References
Index

Book author
Elizabeth Somer, M.A., R.D., a nationally recognized nutrition expert and award-winning writer, is the nutrition correspondent for ABC's Good Morning America. She is also a contributing editor to Shape magazine and the author of six courses, including Age-Proof Your Body, Nutrition for a Healthy Pregnancy, and Nutrition for Women. She lives in Salem, Oregon, with her husband and two children.

Dietetic professionals
CPE Level: 2
Suggested Commission on Dietetic Registration Learning Need Codes: It is the sole responsibility of the dietetic professional to determine the learning need code met by a course. numedix.com provides the following "suggested" codes, but the professional can deviate from them if they feel another need is met.
4040 Disease prevention
4130 Pregnancy
4140 Lactation
4180 Women's health
5000 Medical Nutrition Therapy