8: Maximizing Your Nutrition
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this chapter you will be able to:
- Describe what food is made up of, including macronutrients and micronutrients
- Utilize food labels to determine the nutrition of foods.
- Explain what calories are and how foods provide calories
- Describe the Dietary Guidelines for Americans
What are you planning to eat today?
How do you decide what food you will eat today?
Do you think about what your food is made up of?
Have you considered how your food choices impact your health?
The information in this chapter comes primarily from these key research and evidence based reports:
- The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025. 9th Edition [1] .
- The MyPlate website. MyPlate is the current nutrition guide published by the USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion.What’s in the food you eat?