Acknowledgements
Publication of this second edition was made possible by an Affordable Course Materials Grant from MTSU’s James E. Walker Library. To see the first edition of this book, visit Introduction to Nutrition and Wellness.
Content in the book was remixed and adapted from previous OER authors. In chronological order by dates of publication, we specifically thank the following authors.
- Maureen Zimmerman and Beth Snow for their 2012 Introduction to Human Nutrition
- Marie Kainoa Filkowski Revilla and Alan Titchenal and their students and staff from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa for the original edition (2018) and revisions of Human Nutrition.
- Alice Callahan, Heather Leonard, and Tamberly Powell (Lane Community College) for their 2020 Nutrition: Science and Everyday Applications
The majority of our book’s content is from Lane Community College’s nutrition OER, which attributes much of their book’s content to previous work from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa’s Human Nutrition book and Zimmerman and Snow’s An Introduction to Human Nutrition.
We used the following 11 units from Lane Community College’s book and two chapters from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa’s book, as outlined below.
Nutrition: Science and Everyday Applications/ CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
- Unit 1 – Designing A Healthy Diet (Changed to Chapter 2 in our book)
- Unit 2 – Nutrition Science and Information Literacy (Their Units 2 and 3 are combined into our Chapter 3)
- Unit 3 – Molecules of Life: Photosynthesis, Digestion, and Metabolism
- Unit 4 – Carbohydrates
- Unit 5 – Lipids
- Unit 6 – Protein
- Unit 7 – Energy Balance and Healthy Body Weight
- Unit 8 – Vitamins and Minerals Part 1 (Vitamins are in our Chapter 8)
- Unit 9 – Vitamins and Minerals Part 2 (Minerals are in our Chapter 9)
- Unit 10 – Nutrition and Physical Activity
- Unit 11 – Nutrition Throughout the Lifespan
Human Nutrition (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
- Chapter 17 Food Safety (Our Chapter 1)
- Chapter 18 Nutritional Issues (Our Chapter 12)
We thank the authors of these OER books.
Note: the front cover was designed using AI.
