Nutrition Made Clear

By: Roberta H. Anding, The Great Courses

Narrated by: Roberta H. Anding

Nutrition is essential to living a healthy, happy, and successful life. Yet a world of misconceptions and promises of easy results too often stands in our way - and can even be harmful to our overall health.

The key is to cut through the noise and find the medically backed, statistically proven information about healthy eating and living. These 36 in-depth lectures explore the fundamentals of good nutrition and offer a practical guide for applying these fundamentals to your lifestyle. The power of nutrition lies not just in grasping the concepts behind it, but also in applying those concepts to daily living. This means learning where to find authoritative nutrition information, mastering the science behind nutrients and the body, recognizing what your personal daily requirements of each nutrient should be, building a distinct exercise regimen, and more.

A dietitian and award-winning lecturer, Professor Anding gives you a wealth of invaluable tips you can easily apply to your own eating habits. You'll learn how to calculate your own dietary needs, how to create your own nutrition and exercise plans, how to recognize when a product or service is really a health fraud, and more.

Crafted with the needs of individual people in mind, this course is both a fascinating learning experience and the perfect investment in your personal health - one that will educate you, motivate you, and reward you for the rest of your life.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.

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Everyone should listen to this

Dr. Anding provides very valuable information in this lecture series. There’s a lot of it and at first it feels a bit overwhelming. But it is in fact a cleaned-up and more digestible version of the science of nutrition (pun intended).

With this in mind, I recommend you listen to all of it carefully, but listen especially closely to the material that is relevant to you and yours.

It may sound corny, but I found some of the information life-altering. My family and I have changed our eating habits accordingly and I’m grateful to Dr. Anding for pointing us in the right direction.

Do yourself a big favour and listen to this excellent lecture series.

Worth it!

I am a physician, & I learned from this Audiobook! My nutrition training has been poor. This was an excellent comprehensive overview, enjoyable, with my only critique that transitions between subtopics is come times too fast. The presenter is very passionate about Nutrition & Health. I loved how each chapter started with a story. Recommend it!

Clearly explains what the body with your food

What did you love best about Nutrition Made Clear?

Dr Anding does an excellent job of breaking the humongous and complicated topic of Nutrition down into easily understood chunks that are just the right amount in length. Her explinations of how the body processes and makes use of the food we eat makes it real clear that it's more about how Nutrient Dense a food is and NOT simply a matter of amount of calories. She also helps in explaining portion size and how the perfect plate should look vs what we see in restaurants and what's marketed to us everyday.

So much information!!

A lot of great nutrition information from a speaker who I thought was sensible and trustworthy. I especially appreciated that nutrition needs for athletes was specifically addressed at many points, as the speaker has a lot of experience as a sports dietitian.

Some of the chapters focusing on specific nutrients felt a little boring to me, compared to other chapters which looked at bigger health issues like obesity or diabetes as a whole. But overall I appreciated the wealth of information here!

Practical and Life Changing

Each chapter starts with a real life story that pertains to the topic. Difficult chemistry concepts relating to dietary needs and use are stated in every day, easy to understand terms. Basic, practical, and realistic nutritional makes principles of good nutrition easy to apply to everyday life. I struggle with weight loss and this helped me put some critical pieces together to help me make a better plan for me.