This Open Educational Resource textbook has been adapted from:

OpenStax Anatomy and Physiology // CC BY 4.0

• Chapter 2 The Human Body

An Introduction to Human Nutrition // CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

• Chapter 1 Basic Concepts in Nutrition
• Chapter 3 Water and Electrolytes
• Chapter 4 Carbohydrates
• Chapter 5 Lipids
• Chapter 6 Protein
• Chapter 8 Energy
• Chapter 12 Nutrition Applications
• Chapter 13 Lifespan Nutrition From Pregnancy to the Toddler Years
• Chapter 14 Lifespan Nutrition During Childhood and Adolescence
• Chapter 15 Lifespan Nutrition in Adulthood
• Chapter 17 Food Safety
• Chapter 18 Nutritional Issues

Chapters and sections were borrowed and adapted from the above existing OER textbooks on human nutrition. Without these foundational texts, a lot more work would have been required to complete this project. Mahalo (thank you) to those who shared before us.

All other content should include the following attribution statement:

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Human Nutrition by the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa Food Science and Human Nutrition Program. Download this book for free at:  http://pressbooks.oer.hawaii.edu/humannutrition/

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This Open Educational Resource textbook was also inspired by:

Kansas State University Human Nutrition | goo.gl/vOAnR // CC BY 3.0

Edited and Reviewed by

Cecille Farnum — Ryerson University, Copyeditor

Changqi Leu — San Diego State University, Chapter reviewer

Billy Meinke — University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Project manager

Paula Parslow — Private, Copyeditor

Trina Robertson — Saddleback College, Chapter reviewer

Allison Tepper — American University, Chapter reviewer

Front Cover Photo

Rachel Inouye / CC BY 4.0

Special Thanks to

Bill Chismar – University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, Dean of Outreach College

The Children’s Healthy Living Summer Institute – University of Hawai’i at Mānoa

Open Educational Resources

This text is provided to you as an Open Educational Resource (OER) which you access online. It is designed to give you a comprehensive introduction to human nutrition at no or very nominal cost.  It contains both written and graphic text material, intra-text links to other internal material which may aid in understanding topics and concepts, intra-text links to the appendices and glossary for tables and definitions of words, and extra-text links to videos and web material that clarifies and augments topics and concepts.