ESW 206: Basic Nutrition

"...Tells the story of eight families as they navigate the terrain of an expanding network of assistance programs in which care and abandonment work hand in hand to make access to food uncertain for people on the social and economic margins.... Dickinson shows us how such ideas are bad policy that fail to adequately address hunger in America..."

"The text provides students who lack a strong science background the ideal balance of reliable nutrition information and practical consumer-oriented knowledge."

"The Gut-Immune Connection offers a comprehensive look at the link between alterations to the gut microbiome and the development chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, as well as susceptibility to infectious diseases like Covid-19. Dr. Mayer argues that it's essential we understand the profound and far-reaching effects of gut health and offers clear-cut strategies to reverse the steady upward rise of these illnesses, including a model for nutrition to support the microbiome.  But time is running out: a plague of antimicrobial resistance is only a few decades away if we don't make critical changes to our food supply, including returning to sustainable practices that maintain the microbial diversity of the soil. To turn the tide of chronic and infectious disease tomorrow, we must shift the way we live today."

The foods eaten by a nation's population play a key role in shaping the health of that society. This book presents country-specific information on how diet, food security, and concepts of health critically impact the well-being of the world's population. * Provides concise, accessible information in a ready-reference format that covers most major countries as well as a variety of non-country populations * Includes an introductory essay that creates a conceptual framework for students * Presents dozens of recipes that provide various real-world examples of the types of traditional foods eaten in other regions of the world * Supplies further readings at the end of each entry that guide readers to additional sources of information

"Inflammation is the body's ancestral response to its greatest threats, the first line of defense it deploys against injury and foreign pathogens. But as the threats we face have evolved, new science is uncovering how inflammation may also turn against us, simmering underneath the surface of leading killers from heart disease and cancer to depression, aging, and mysterious autoimmune conditions..."