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Nutrition Essentials: A Personal Approach by Beth Basham

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Nutrition Essentials: A Personal Approach has a consumer-oriented focus, providing practical tips for applying concepts such as ways to prepare foods to make them safer and healthier, and ways to become a savvy consumer of nutrition-related information. It also provides non-nutrition majors with the basic scientific principles of nutrition in a highly visual, engaging context.

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1. Food Is More Than Something to Eat
2. How to Become an Informed Consumer
3. Making More Nutritious Choices
4. How Food Becomes You
5. Carbohydrates: Fuel and Fiber
6. Lipids: Focusing on Fats and Cholesterol
7. Proteins: Life’s Building Blocks
8. Vitamins: Nutrients That Multitask
9. Key Minerals, Water, and the Nonnutrient Alcohol
10. Nutrition for a Healthy Weight and Fit Body
11. Nutrition for Your Life, Environment, and World

About the Author

Beth Basham

Beth Basham, MS, RD, LD, earned her Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from Iowa State University and her Master of Science in Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine from the University of Western States. With extensive experience across multiple areas of dietetics, she has worked as a community health dietitian with the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), provided clinical inpatient care in a hospital setting, and currently operates a private practice specializing in intuitive eating, body image concerns, and functional medicine.

A dedicated advocate for non-diet, health-supportive approaches, Beth is committed to helping people cultivate a positive relationship with food while navigating a nutrition landscape often saturated with misinformation.  As a former military spouse, Beth has had the opportunity to travel extensively, immersing herself in diverse food cultures and traditions across the world, which enriches her perspective on nutrition and well-being. Her firsthand experience working with individuals struggling to make sense of nutrition science in today’s complex information environments brings a practice, real-world dimension to her writing.

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