Contributors, Licenses, and Attributions
Contributors
This work was adapted from the sources below by Pattie S. Green, Ph.D. (now retired) and Jonathan E. Pottle, Ph.D., of the Department of Biological, Earth, and Environmental Sciences at Tacoma Community College in Tacoma, WA.
Dr. Green did the original compilation and adaptation of portions of the sources below to form this textbook. She also made the following original and substantial contributions:
- Figure 3.2, “Design of a Prospective Cohort Study”
- Figure 3.3, “Design of a Retrospective Case Control Study”
- Figure 5.2, “Digestion Breakdown of Macronutrients”
- Figure 15.11, “Interaction of Folate with Other B Vitamins”
- Figure 17.1, “Major and Trace Minerals on the Periodic Table”
- Figure 17.13, “Low Iodine and Goiter”
Dr. Pottle undertook revisions to content, formatting, references/citations, and accessibility in every chapter of the textbook, and effected the import of the book into PressBooks along with the ensuring requisite revisions. He also made the following original and substantial contributions:
- Section “Themes of the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines,” in Chapter 2: Guidelines for Healthy Eating (largely rewritten from a section addressing an earlier version of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans)
- Part of section “Recommendations for Optimal Health from the USDA,” in Chapter 4: Nutrition Labels and Healthy Eating (updating for 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the retirement of MyPlate)
License for this Textbook
This work is shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License except where otherwise stated.
Attributions and Licenses for Source Materials
At the end of each chapter, there is an Attributions section with details of the specific sources adapted for that chapter.
The main source for this textbook is:
- Human Nutrition by University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Food Science and Human Nutrition Program, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Other sources adapted into portions of this textbook are:
- Kansas State University Human Nutrition (FNDH 400) Flexbook, by Brian Lindshield. NPP eBooks 19. 2018; licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
- An Introduction to Nutrition (Zimmerman), licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 license
- Anatomy and Physiology, by J. Gordon Betts, Kelly A. Young, James A. Wise, Eddie Johnson, Brandon Poe, Dean H. Kruse, Oksana Korol, Jody E. Johnson, Mark Womble, Peter DeSaix. OpenStax; Houston, Texas. 2013. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- APUS: An Introduction to Nutrition 1st Edition (Byerly), licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.
- Introductory Chemistry, by Melissa Kofoed and Shawn Miller, Utah State University. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License.
- Introduction of Psychology – 1st Canadian Edition, by Charles Strangor and Jennifer Walinga, 2014. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
- “Food for Thought: Brain-Body Interactions and the Regulation of Hunger,” by Nick Jikomes. Science in the News, Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Copyright The President and Fellows of Harvard University. Published April 1, 2013. Used under fair use.
Textbook cover image:
- “Chicken and Rice Casserole.” Credit: National Cancer Institute / Public Domain.
