A popular one-semester/quarter course offered at both 2-year and 4-year schools and taught by either the Health Sciences division or the Physical Education department. This is a survey of various health-related topics, such as nutrition, exercise, sexuality, substance abuse, disease, etc., usually with an emphasis on applying the concepts to students' own lives.

Learn what you need to know about foodborne illness—from comprehensive Web sites! The Internet Guide to Food Safety and Security puts a wealth of food safety and security information at your fingertips. This comprehensive compilation of annotated links goes beyond simple listing of Web addresses to tell you which sites have original content, what sites hold specific safety and security information you are searching for, and how to find all types of vital information you need to prevent foodborne illness and disease to stay healthy. Easy-to-use, thorough, and accurate, this guide to the Internet will become your all-in-one source for food and health information. Includes a helpful glossary!

A groundbreaking plan to cleanse your system and revitalize your health. Award-winning author and detox expert Ann Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., CNS, America's "First Lady of Nutrition," has an unbeatable track record in helping people to identify the "hidden invaders" that may be sabotaging their health. In her groundbreaking The Gut Flush Plan, she focuses on the next frontier in health care-the new germ warfare- designed to outsmart the hidden invaders and superbugs that are spreading into the community and threatening our health-making us sick, tired, and bloated. In The Gut Flush Plan, Gittleman helps readers pinpoint the source of their "gut grief" and then offers a revolutionary threestep program to rebuild the digestive system from the cellular level up. You will learn to: * fortify your own compromised digestive system against pathogens and parasites; * flush out any lingering invaders or toxins; * feed yourself nourishing foods that encourage and rebuild GI health; * and, with Gittleman's 21-Day Gut Flush Plan, replete with menu plans, irresistible recipes, and shopping lists, you'll discover tantalizing new foods and delicious herbs and spices that enhance immunity and reduce intestinal distress. With The Gut Flush Plan you'll feel better, lighter, cleaner, healthier, and more vital than you have in years!

An Aspen Food Science Text Series Book. All of the essential information that you have come to rely on in the widely-acclaimed 'Principles of Food Sanitation' by Norman G. Marriott is now available to you in a simplified, practical, and updated format. Providing a step-by-step, hands-on approach, this incomparable text offers useful and interesting information on food sanitation at all stages of food processing and food service and stresses how important the role of each employee is at each stage. Essentials of Food Sanitation covers a wide variety of topics from cleaning and sanitizing compounds, systems and equipment to food sanitation in various types of food processing such as dairy products, seafood, meat and poultry, etc. Each chapter provides food handlers and students with interesting real-life reports of recent food sanitation problems plus different techniques to ensure firm understanding of the subject, including: visual aides; a comprehensive glossary; several summaries, study questions; references; chapter bibliographies; a resource section on how to learn more about the topic; and case studies. A thorough discussion of HACCP and how a HACCP system relates to quality assurance and sanitation functions is also outlined in the text. Furthermore, expanded material on foodservice, including the methods and principles for sanitary food handling and considerations at various control points inthe flow of foodservice is provided.