Chapter 2: Achieving a Healthy Diet

In chapter 1, we began to discuss the components of a healthy diet.  In chapter 2, we’ll discuss basic principles for making healthy food choices and introduce several tools that can be used to craft a healthy diet:  the dietary guidelines, the daily reference intakes, and nutrition labels.

Sections:

2.0 Introduction

2.1 A Healthy Philosophy toward Food

2.2 Principles of a Healthy Diet

2.3 Understanding the Bigger Picture of Dietary Guidelines

2.4 National Goals for Nutrition and Health: Healthy People 2020

2.5 Recommendations for Optimal Health

2.6 Understanding Daily Reference Intakes

2.7 Discovering Nutrition Facts

2.8 When Enough is Enough

2.9 Nutrition and the Media

Chapter from Principles of Nutrition by Jellum, et al.  Acknowledgements therein:

• Adapted from: Zimmerman and Snow. “An Introduction to Nutrition” v. 1.0. Accessed on December 4, 2017. https://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/an-introduction-to-nutrition/