Nutrition and You

Provides a unique view of individual nutrition as well as how it impacts the individual, the community, and the world. This engaging book provides a comprehensive overview of nutrition and then focuses on how nutrition affects health in so many ways: physical growth and development, metabolism and energy level, mood and mental health, cognitive ability, and more. Also explored are nutritional issues of importance and interest to today's youth: proper nutrition for best athletic performance, potentially dangerous societal pressures to be thin, the increase of obesity and how this puts kids at increased risk for health problems, and much more.