Block 1: Basic Concepts in Nutrition — Nutrients, Macronutrients, Micronutrients, and Healthy Diet Principles

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Human Nutrition Human Nutrition UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MĀNOA FOOD SCIENCE AND HUMAN NUTRITION PROGRAM ALAN TITCHENAL, ALLISON CALABRESE, CHERYL GIBBY, MARIE KAINOA FIALKOWSKI REVILLA, AND WILLIAM MEINKE Human Nutrition by University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Food Science and Human Nutrition Program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted. This Human Nutrition OER textbook includes content from a number of OER sources. All new content added to this book is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, while select chapters have been used and are shared under a CC BY-NC-SA license. All other content not under a CC is used fairly and is labeled as such. This book was produced using Pressbooks.com, and PDF rendering was done by PrinceXML. Contents Preface xi About the Contributors xii Acknowledgements xvii Chapter 1. Basic Concepts in Nutrition Introduction 3 Food Quality 9 Units of Measure 11 Lifestyles and Nutrition 13 Achieving a Healthy Diet 17 Research and the Scientific Method 19 Types of Scientific Studies 23 Chapter 2. The Human Body Introduction 31 Basic Biology, Anatomy, and Physiology 36 The Digestive System...