Practical Activities to Understanding Contemporary Nutrition is a text that can be used in conjunction with another textbook on Nutrition, or may also be used as a stand-alone text for Nutrition courses. The texts explains the two major goals of nutrition being (1) meet your needs for essential nutrients and (2) reduce your risk for chronic disease. On each page of the workbook the students will be doing one or more of the following activities: observing, recalling, calculating or evaluating. The idea behind this text is to provide students with nutritional information that will be applicable for the rest of their lives.