Book Title: Introduction to Nutrition and Wellness, 2nd Edition
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Book Description: This textbook is designed for students enrolled in NFS 1240: Introduction to Nutrition and Wellness at Middle Tennessee State University, as well as Tennessee high school students taking Nutrition Across the Lifespan. It introduces the foundations of human nutrition, with an emphasis on how key nutrients support health and help prevent disease. Core topics include food safety, nutrition across the lifespan, weight management, and sports nutrition. Throughout the text, practical, real-world applications are highlighted to help students make informed decisions and build habits that support lifelong health and wellness.
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The first edition of this book can be found at https://mtsu.pressbooks.pub/nutrition/.
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This book is a cloned version of Introduction to Nutrition and Wellness by Janet Colson, Sandra Poirier, and Yvonne Dadson, published using Pressbooks under a CC BY-NC-SA (Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike) license. It may differ from the original.
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Introduction to Nutrition and Wellness, 2nd Edition Copyright © 2026 by Janet Colson and Sarah Harris is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
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Dietetics and nutrition
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Introduction to Nutrition and Wellness, 2nd Edition Copyright © 2026 by Janet Colson and Sarah Harris is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
This Human Nutrition OER textbook includes content from several OER sources, primarily Nutrition: Science and Everyday Application, by Alice Callahan, Ph.D., Heather Leonard, MEd, RDN, and Tamberly Powell, MS, RDN, of Lane Community College. Additionally, content from Human Nutrition ( CC BY NC license) by Marie Kainoa Filkowski Revilla, Ph.D., RD, Alan Titchenal, Ph.D. And Jennifer Draper, MA, RD, of the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. The books and the new content added are published under a CC BY NC license. All other content not under a CC license is used fairly and labeled.