Culinary Arts (CULA): Nutrition & Special Diets

The choices you make every day about food and nutrition really do matter. They impact your health and well-being now and throughout life. Be sure to read the chapter entitled "Nutrients: What's Inside Your Food."

In this groundbreaking guide, Dr. Uma Naidoo presents cutting-edge research about the ways anxiety is rooted in the brain, gut, immune system, and metabolism. Drawing on the latest science on the connection between diet and anxiety, the book shows us how to effectively use food and nutrition as essential tools for calming the mind.

This book examines the most controversial foods and ingredients, providing an objective, well-balanced look at the health benefits and risks of each.

Health, fitness, and well-being depend on food and proper nutrition. But knowing what is in the foods we eat, understanding the differences between good and bad fat, learning which foods are good sources of vitamins, or discerning the effectiveness of different diets can be challenging. This book is here to help!

A plant-based diet is often associated with bountiful health benefits, so why doesn't it always protect you from age-related bone loss? In this book, Dr. Laura Kelly -- a specialist in precision medicine for bone health and medicine-through-food nutrition -- puts these questions to rest, offering expert guidance on plant-forward or vegetarian diets that help ensure healthy bones. She and co-author Helen Kelly explain how a diet of mostly (or only) plants may leave us with deficiencies in key nutrients for bones, including protein, iron, vitamin A, and vitamin B12 -- so they offer solutions for how to plan and prepare meals that optimize nutrients to avoid lower bone density.

This book offers a broad introduction to healthy eating, covering the basics of nutritional science, how diet affects physical and mental health, common dietary approaches, concerns about particular foods, and more.

Protein is not the answer. In fact, it’s the problem, says Dr. Garth Davis, in this book that dispels myths perpetuated by doctors, weight loss experts, and the media. It explains the scientific debates over the effects of animal protein on the human body, and will help you to interpret the findings of contradictory nutritional studies and confusing headlines in the news.

Backed by more than 100 studies, Dr. Avena reveals in this book how processed foods with refined sugars can be even more addictive than illicit drugs or alcohol. She dispels myths blaming lack of willpower, and proves biologically how sugar affects the brain. The text includes 30 sugar-free recipes and a blueprint for your sugar detox.

It's easy to adopt the vegan lifestyle with this collection of 250 recipes, menus, and color photos for dishes that taste even better than their non-vegan counterparts. The cookbook offers innovative recipes for all occasions, convenience, and easy-to-find ingredients, as well as gluten-free and tofu-free options.

This detailed and comprehensive overview of meat-free diets introduces their long history in human cultures, and analyzes some of the important questions and issues surrounding their practice in today's world.

This book provides basic health information about dietary guidelines and eating plans for children, adults, and seniors; weight control; and related medical concerns.

This book provides clear, concise nutritional guidance about smart eating and lifestyle choices. This A-to-Z resource is essential for learning the basics about how food choices can help maintain optimum health and prevent diseases.

This encyclopedia presents authoritative, comprehensive information on special diets, popular diets, dietary concerns, nutrition basics, and the effects of dietary choices on health.

This question-and-answer style book covers many of the most common questions about food and its relationship to diabetes.