bookstore frustration

[infinitepiphany]

have any of you ever tried to buy a proper book on nutrition? even in a bookstore big enough to have a "diet" section and a "nutrition" section, books with titles like "become perfectly thin, trim, and fit in three days" abound on the shelves. every third book is "cure you cancer with suzy q's magic supplemt treatment." now, it really goes without saying that i made those up, but COME ON publishing industry! did it ever occur to you that you might not publish crap!

i was looking for the american dietitic assoc.'s complete guide to food and nutrition, which is out of print and being reprinted in august. i cannot express the amount of crap i found in my attempt to find it, though. i finally bought the complete idiots guide to total nutrition, bc it sounded like a good starting point and was very based in food pyramid and moderation. any other suggestions?

michelle

[Boeing]

Well, when I took Introductory Nutrition in college a few years ago, this was our textbook:
Sizer, F. S. & Whitney, E. N. (Nineteen Ninety-Seven). Nutrition: Concepts and controversies (Seventh ed.). Belmont, CA: West/Wadsworth.
I found it very readable. I don't think it's as expensive as your average college textbook, either. Good luck!

[brwnEMT]

Boeing-
I'm taking Intro to Nutrition this summer, and that's the book we're using! :supergrin
It's really easy to read (although our tests are based solely on lecture notes...but it's good to have around).
Michelle-
Try your local college (community or university) bookstore. Try before the semesters start, so you can get a used one...or find a friend that is taking a nutrition class. The college textbooks are what I've found to be the most helpful, more so than "Be Thin and Trim in Thirty Days with our Miracle Tomato diet." :muhaha books that line the bookstore shelves.
:love and :sun
Nikki

[Vicks]

I understand your frustration some. I have one question tho "why are you buying a nutrition book?" In fact I am really curious as to why anyone with an eating disorder studies nutrition for any reason. I knwo in college I had to take electives, and nutrition was one course I could have taken but I didn't.

Anyway it is frustrating finding any book on "real nutrition" that ins't written by a quack.

Vicks

[infinitepiphany]

vicks -

i am reading about nutrition bc though i have regained the ability to eat, i tend to eat ... really crappy stuff!

to really recovery, i knew i had to learn something about nutrition. i have one book, and i really dont plan to buy another. i also have a book called intuitive eating, but thats not so much about nutrition as it is about responding to hunger cues. anyway, i know really quite little about the topic, and i couldnt seem to catch the uni. dieitician, and i wanted to learn. so i bought a book. i have seen finally caught the dieitian (yea!), had a meeting with her, shown her my book and the various things im working on. she approved of it all, and educated me a bit more...i had some specific questions i couldnt find in the book.

i have read that alot of people with ed's become very obsessed with nutrition and other things related to food. though it seems questionable, understandably so, i have read parts of the book, plan to read some of it again, have left parts out, and plan to read other parts later. as i read and learn, i am obsessing less about calories and counting, which has been a goal for a long time, and i didnt know how to get there.

thanks for your concern and response :)

michelle

[brwnEMT]

Vicks-
As a nursing student, nutrition is required for my bachelors degree. Had it not been required, it would have been something I would have taken as an elective to gain information on how to further help my patients.
It's an introductory course.....I've had an eating disorder for a number of years.... Point being, I could teach the class. I haven't learned any information that could further "help or harm" my ED, but instead, it's taught so we can objectively collect information to help our patients....the majority of hospitalized individuals are malnourished, due to many different factors.....and we all know how difficult life is when you are malnourished.....so every little bit of information helps. That's all.
It's never been a "I have an eating disorder and want to learn more information" type of deal....at least not for me anyways.
:love and :sun
Nikki