Nutrition For Healthy Living

Key differences between 4th and 3rd editions

• Time lapse between current and previous editions: 3 years (2015 vs 2012).
• The original edition of Schiff's nutrition textbook appeared in 2008.
• New material in the Fourth Ed.:
• Chapter 3: Discussion on nutritional requirement
• Chapter 4:
• How liver gallbladder, and pancreas contribute to digestion.
• The absorption and transport of nutrients in the body.
• Chapter 7: Nutritional genomics, the study of relationship between our genes, nutrition and health.
• Chapter 8:
• Vitamins intake adequacy.
• Food sources of vitamins.
• Information on essential nutrients, including biotin (vitamin H), pantothenic acid (vitamin B5), and choline.
• How nutritional supplements can affect age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
• Chapter 9: Information on chloride, sulfur, copper, fluoride, manganese, and molybdenum.
• Chapter 10:
• Section 10.1 on overweight and obesity epidemic.
• The difference between visceral fat and subcutaneous fat.
• Difference between basal metabolism and resting metabolism.
• Chapter 11: ATP-PCr, lactic acid and oxygen energy systems.
• Chapter 12: Sources of pathogens in food.
• Chapter 13:
• Nutrition-related signs of pregnancy.
• Section 13.7 on childhood obesity -- causes and contributing factors, obesity-related health problems, prevention and treatment.