Includes index.

Part 1. Nutritional principles -- Part 2. Components of a balanced diet: the nutrients and dietary factors -- Part 3. The role of nutrition in key organs/systems for the supply of nutrients -- Part 4. Physiological and other challenges to meeting nutritional needs -- Part 5. Nutrition related disease -- Part 6. Improving diets -- Appendices -- Glossary.

"Nutrition at a Glance continues the popular series style of providing succinct information in a user-friendly, well-illustrated format, with a broad coverage taking in such key topics as: Consequences of inadequate nutrition; Food allergy and intolerance; Obesity, cancer, cardiovascular disease and gastrointestinal disease; Nutrition and the brain; Food choice and food policy." -back cover.