Boston University

Joan Salge Blake is a Clinical Associate Professor and the Dietetics Internship Director at Boston University’s College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences (Sargent College). She received her MS from Boston University and teaches both graduate and undergraduate nutrition courses. She has also been a guest lecturer at the Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine.

Joan is a member of the American Dietetic Association and the Massachusetts Dietetic Association (MDA) and has been a presenter and Presiding Officer at both the ADA Annual Meeting and MDA Annual Convention. She has been a recipient of the Outstanding Dietitian (2009), Outstanding Dietetic Educator (2007) and Young Dietitian of the Year awards.  She also received the Whitney Powers Excellence in Teaching Award from Boston University. Joan is an ADA National Media Spokesperson and conducts over 100 media interviews annually. Her nutrition segments can be seen regularly on Fox25 TV, Boston.

2. What is Nutrition?

3. Nutrition Claims: Sorting Fact from Fiction

4. Tools for Healthy Eating

5. Food Labels: Cracking the Code

6. Digestion: How Food Becomes Nutrition

7. Carbohydrates: Facts to Know

8. Carbohydrates: Foods to Eat

9. Diabetes: A Growing Epidemic

10. Fats: Facts to Know

11. Fats: Foods to Eat

12. Eat to Beat Heart Disease

13. Proteins: Facts to Know

14. Proteins: Foods to Eat

15. Vegetarian Diets: What to Eat When You Don’t Eat Meat

16. Vitamins: Small but Powerful

17. Minerals: Essential Elements

18. Water: Facts to Know, Fluids to Drink

19. Alcohol: The Real Story

20. Healthy Weight: What Is It and How Do You Maintain It?

21. Overweight and Obesity: Fighting the Factors that Put On Weight

22. Underweight and Disordered Eating: When Eating Enough is a Challenge

23. Fighting Cancer with a Knife and Fork

24. Focus on Fitness

25. Eat to Compete

26. Supplements and Functional Foods: Are They Right for You?

27. Food Safety

28. Food Insecurity

29. Life Cycle Nutrition: Pregnancy Through Infancy

30. Life Cycle Nutrition: Childhood Through the Later Years

Appendices

Glossary

Index

Credits

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