Introduction to Human Nutrition

Human Nutrition: A Consumer Approach is a self-paced nutrition eText for students in health and non-health professions. The text provides a sound introduction to the study of human nutrition that facilitates distance learning and self-paced instruction. Human Nutrition: A Consumer Approach uniquely bridges the gaps between nutrition science and consumer education in a way that students can easily apply the information to fit their lifestyles and achieve personal health goals. One of the goals of the text is to improve students' nutrition literacy so they can access, use, and evaluate nutrition information from various information channels. It also aims to make students savvy consumers of both food and nutrition information.