Unit 1: Food is more than something to eat -- Why learn about nutrition? -- Nutrition basics -- Key nutrition concepts -- Unit 2: Nutrition information: fact or fiction? -- Nutrition: Science for consumers -- Spreading nutrition misinformation -- Becoming a more critical consumer of nutrition information -- Seeking reliable nutrition information -- Unit 3: Making more nutritious choices -- Requirements and recommendations -- Planning nutritious meals and snacks -- Making sense of food labels -- Should I take dietary supplements? -- Unit 4: How food becomes you -- From cells to systems -- Digestive system -- Common digestive system disorders -- Metabolism basic -- Unit 5: Carbohydrates: fuel and fiber -- Sugars, sweeteners, starches, and fiber -- What happens to the carbohydrates you eat? -- Carbohydrates and health -- Unit 6: Lipids: focusing on fats and cholesterol -- What are lipids? -- What happens to the fat and cholesterol you eat? -- Cardiovascular disease: major killer of Americans -- Unit 7: Proteins: life's building blocks -- What are proteins? -- What happens to the protein you eat? -- Protein you eat? -- Proteins in foods -- What's vegetarianism? -- Proteins and health -- Stretching your food dollars -- Unit 8: Vitamins: nutrients that multitask -- Introducing vitamins -- Fat-soluble vitamins -- Water-soluble vitamins -- Vitamins and cancer -- Unit 9: Key minerals, water, and the nonnutrient alcohol -- Minerals for life -- Key minerals and your health -- Water: liquid of life -- Drink to your health? -- Unit 10: Nutrition for a healthy weight and fit body -- Overweight or obese? -- Factors that influence your body weight -- Managing your weight safely -- Disordered eating and eating disorders -- Get moving; get healthy! -- Unit 11: Nutrition for your life, environment, and world -- Nutrition for a lifetime -- How safe is my food? -- Dietary adequacy: a global concern -- Appendixes -- English-metric conversion and metric-to-household units -- Daily values (DVs) table --The basic of energy metabolism -- references -- Dietary reference intake (DRI) tables -- Modifying recipes for healthy living.