1.      Nutrition: Linking Food and Health                In Depth: New Frontiers in Nutrition and Health 2.      Designing a Healthful Diet                In Depth: Healthful Dietary Patterns 3.      The Human Body: Are We Really What We Eat?                In Depth: Disorders Related to Specific Foods 4.      Carbohydrates: Plant-Derived Energy Nutrients                In Depth: Diabetes 5.      Fats: Essential Energy-Supplying Nutrients                In Depth: Cardiovascular Disease 6.      Proteins: Crucial Components of all Body Tissues                In Depth: Vitamins and Minerals: Micronutrients with Macro Powers 7.      Nutrients Involved in Fluid and Electrolyte Balance                In Depth: Alcohol 8.      Nutrients Essential to Key Body Functions                In Depth: Cancer 9.      Nutrients Essential to Healthy Tissues                In Depth: Osteoporosis 10.   Achieving and Maintaining a Healthful Body Weight                In Depth: Obesity 11.   Nutrition and Physical Activity: Keys to Good Health                In Depth: Disorders Related to Body Image, Eating, and Exercise 12.   Food Safety and Technology: Impact on Consumers                In Depth: The Safety and Effectiveness of Dietary Supplements 13.   Food Security, Equity, and Sustainability: The Challenge of “Good” Food                In Depth: Malnutrition 14.   Nutrition Through the Life Cycle: Pregnancy and the First Year of Life                In Depth: The Fetal Environment: A Lasting Impression 15.   Nutrition Through the Life Cycle: Childhood to Late Adulthood                In Depth: Searching for the Fountain of Youth

About the book                                                                                                             Emphasize real-life applications Behavior Change...Getting Started features help students gain awareness of their own nutrition and put better decisions into action.Nutrition Myth or Fact, You Do the Math, and Nutrition Label Activity features encourage critical thinking and out¿-of-¿the box applications.Nutri¿Case case studies help students apply the learning to everyday life. Found in each chapter and In Depth feature, a NutriCase features one of five distinct characters who appear throughout the book.What About You? self¿-assessment features include checklists, questionnaires, and other treatments that present brief, targeted activities emphasizing active learning and applied thinking skills.Quick Tips provide helpful suggestions for incorporating better nutrition into daily life in a succinct list format. Examples include shopping advice, cooking suggestions, food preparation tips, eating out ideas, exercise-¿related topics, and other creative ways to apply what readers have learned.Eating Right All Day visually highlights tasty suggestions students can use to improve their daily meals. The breakfast/lunch/dinner/snack format features appealing examples of satisfying everyday meals that are also good sources of nutrients.Test Yourself quiz questions at the beginning of each chapter pique students’ interest by raising and dispelling common misconceptions about nutrition, with answers located at the end of each chapter.   Nutrition concepts applied to students’ daily lives NEW! In Depth Chapters: Obesity, Malnutrition, and Healthful Eating Patterns are three new mini-chapters that focus on topics such as the health and societal problems surrounding undernourishment; the effectiveness of lifestyle changes, medications, dietary supplements, and surgery in obesity treatment; and the components and principles of a healthful eating pattern.NEW! Chapter 13: Food Equity, Sustainability, and Quality: The Challenge of “Good” Food is a new chapter that focuses on current issues of food quality and availability that directly affect today’s students. Topics include the disparities in availability of high-quality, nourishing food thought to contribute to the poverty-obesity paradox, unsafe working conditions in many US farms and factories, and more.NEW! 6 Focus Figures on topics such as nutrition and human disease, the scientific method, the new nutrition facts panel, and more; and 8 new Meal Focus Figures have been added that graphically depict the differences in sets of meals, such as a comparison of nutrient density or a comparison of two high-carbohydrate meals, to engage students with relevant and practical information, and much more.   Help students visualize and understand the toughest topics UPDATED! To better streamline coverage of micronutrients, four former chapters (7 to 10 in the 4th edition) now become three (7 to 9 in the 5th edition) to help students better comprehend the role of vitamins and minerals in fluid and electrolyte balance (Chapter 7); key body functions (energy metabolism, antioxidant functions, and vision - Chapter 8); and healthy body tissues (collagen, blood, and bone - Chapter 9).NEW! Learning Outcomes Approach creates a clear learning path for students with numbered learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter. These outcomes are tied to each major chapter section, helping students navigate each chapter and measure their progress against specific learning goals and helping instructors assess the key information and skills students are meant to take away from each chapter.UPDATED! and EXPANDED! Learning Objectives are included for each chapter and have been added to the In Depth mini¿-chapters.NEW! Study Plans conclude each chapter, tying the chapter learning outcomes to the review and math questions, and also include the Test Yourself true/false answers and web resources.NEW! Critical Thinking Questions follow the Nutrition Debates and “Nutrition: Myth or Fact” features to encourage deeper analysis of the learning content.UPDATED! Hot Topics give brief snapshots of current topics. They shine a light on topical issues and offer a succinct alternative to the more in¿-depth coverage of nutritional controversies featured in our popular Nutrition Debate feature. EXPANDED! Chapter and topic coverage including Functional Foods, Nutrients Involved in Energy Metabolism and Blood Health, and Food Safety and Technology.   Personalize learning with Mastering Nutrition Mastering™ Nutrition is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Interactive, self-paced tutorials provide individualized coaching to help students stay on track. With a wide range of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts. EXPANDED! Focus Figure Coaching Activities better guide students through key nutrition concepts with interactive mini-lessons.NEW! End-of-chapter Study Plans link chapter summaries and review questions to specific learning outcomes. These Study Plans are further enhanced with activities within Mastering Nutrition.UPDATED! 18 NutriTools Build-A-Meal Coaching Activities allow students to combine and experiment with different food options to learn firsthand how to build healthier meals. The Build a Meal, Build a Pizza, Build A Salad, and Build A Sandwich tools have been carefully rethought to improve the user experience, making them easier to use and HTML5 compatible for mobile devices.NEW! ABC News Videos with quizzing bring nutrition to life and spark discussion with up-to-date hot topics from 2012 to 2016 that occur in the nutrition field. Multiple-choice questions provide wrong-answer feedback to redirect students to the correct answer.UPDATED! Nutrition Animation Activities explain big picture concepts that help students learn the hardest topics in nutrition. These animations, compatible with Mastering Nutrition and mobile devices, help students master tough topics and address students’ common misconceptions, using assessment and wrong-answer feedback.Pre-lecture Reading Questions ensure that students come prepared for lecture by answering multiple-choice questions related to the content in the text.Math Coaching Activities provide hands-on practice of important nutrition-related calculations to help students understand and apply the material. Questions include wrong-answer feedback.Get Ready for Nutrition gives students extra help with math, chemistry, and study skills.MP3 Chapter Summary Activities recap key chapter content and include multiple-choice questions with wrong-answer feedback.MP3 Case Study Activities allow students to walk through a true-to-life student nutrition situation and pose compelling questions that apply concepts from the chapter.The Study Area is broken down into learning areas and includes eText 2.0, videos, animations, MP3s, and much more for student self study.Single sign-on to MyDietAnalysis, a software system, lets students complete a diet assignment. Students keep track of their food intake and exercise and enter the information to create a variety of reports (e.g., the balance between fats, carbohydrates, and proteins in their diet; how many calories they’re eating vs. expending; whether they’re meeting the RDAs for vitamins and minerals; etc.). A mobile version gives students 24/7 access via their smartphones to easily track food, drink, and activity on the go. MyDietAnalysis Case Study Activities with quizzing provide students with hands-on diet analysis practice that can also be automatically graded.NEW! eText 2.0 optimized for mobile eText 2.0 mobile app offers offline access and can be downloaded for most iOS and Android phones/tablets from the Apple App Store or Google PlaySeamlessly integrated videos and other rich mediaAccessible (screen-reader ready)Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading modeInstructor and student note-taking, highlighting, bookmarking, and search Learning Catalytics™ helps you generate class discussion, customize your lecture, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. As a student response tool, Learning Catalytics uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking.NEW! Upload a full PowerPoint® deck for easy creation of slide questions.NEW! Team names are no longer case sensitive.Help your students develop critical thinking skills.Monitor responses to find out where your students are struggling.Rely on real-time data to adjust your teaching strategy.Automatically group students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning. Dynamic Study Modules help students study effectively on their own by continuously assessing their activity and performance in real time. Here's how it works: students complete a set of questions with a unique answer format that also asks them to indicate their confidence level. Questions repeat until the student can answer them all correctly and confidently. Once completed, Dynamic Study Modules explain the concept using materials from the text. These are available as graded assignments prior to class, and accessible on smartphones, tablets, and computers. NEW! Instructors can now remove questions from Dynamic Study Modules to better fit their course.  

About the book                                                                                                             Nutrition concepts applied to students’ daily lives In Depth Chapters: Obesity, Malnutrition, and Healthful Eating Patterns are three new mini-chapters that focus on topics such as the health and societal problems surrounding undernourishment; the effectiveness of lifestyle changes, medications, dietary supplements, and surgery in obesity treatment; and the components and principles of a healthful eating pattern.Chapter 13: Food Equity, Sustainability, and Quality: The Challenge of “Good” Food is a new chapter that focuses on current issues of food quality and availability that directly affect today’s students. Topics include the disparities in availability of high-quality, nourishing food thought to contribute to the poverty-obesity paradox, unsafe working conditions in many US farms and factories, and more.6 Focus Figures on topics such as nutrition and human disease, the scientific method, the new nutrition facts panel, and more; and 8 new Meal Focus Figures have been added that graphically depict the differences in sets of meals, such as a comparison of nutrient density or a comparison of two high-carbohydrate meals, to engage students with relevant and practical information, and much more.  Help students visualize and understand the toughest topics To better streamline coverage of micronutrients, four former chapters (7 to 10 in the 4th edition) now become three (7 to 9 in the 5th edition) to help students better comprehend the role of vitamins and minerals in fluid and electrolyte balance (Chapter 7); key body functions (energy metabolism, antioxidant functions, and vision - Chapter 8); and healthy body tissues (collagen, blood, and bone - Chapter 9).Learning Outcomes Approach creates a clear learning path for students with numbered learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter. These outcomes are tied to each major chapter section, helping students navigate each chapter and measure their progress against specific learning goals and helping instructors assess the key information and skills students are meant to take away from each chapter.Learning Objectives are included for each chapter and have been added to the In Depth mini¿-chapters.Study Plans conclude each chapter, tying the chapter learning outcomes to the review and math questions, and also include the Test Yourself true/false answers and web resources.Critical Thinking Questions follow the Nutrition Debates and “Nutrition: Myth or Fact” features to encourage deeper analysis of the learning content.Hot Topics give brief snapshots of current topics. They shine a light on topical issues and offer a succinct alternative to the more in¿-depth coverage of nutritional controversies featured in our popular Nutrition Debate feature.Chapter and topic coverage including Functional Foods, Nutrients Involved in Energy Metabolism and Blood Health, and Food Safety and Technology.   Personalize learning with Mastering Nutrition Mastering™ Nutrition is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Interactive, self-paced tutorials provide individualized coaching to help students stay on track. With a wide range of activities available, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts. Focus Figure Coaching Activities better guide students through key nutrition concepts with interactive mini-lessons.End-of-chapter Study Plans link chapter summaries and review questions to specific learning outcomes. These Study Plans are further enhanced with activities within Mastering Nutrition.18 NutriTools Build-A-Meal Coaching Activities allow students to combine and experiment with different food options to learn firsthand how to build healthier meals. The Build a Meal, Build a Pizza, Build A Salad, and Build A Sandwich tools have been carefully rethought to improve the user experience, making them easier to use and HTML5 compatible for mobile devices.ABC News Videos with quizzing bring nutrition to life and spark discussion with up-to-date hot topics from 2012 to 2016 that occur in the nutrition field. Multiple-choice questions provide wrong-answer feedback to redirect students to the correct answer.Nutrition Animation Activities explain big picture concepts that help students learn the hardest topics in nutrition. These animations, compatible with Mastering Nutrition and mobile devices, help students master tough topics and address students’ common misconceptions, using assessment and wrong-answer feedback.eText 2.0 optimized for mobile eText 2.0 mobile app offers offline access and can be downloaded for most iOS and Android phones/tablets from the Apple App Store or Google PlaySeamlessly integrated videos and other rich mediaAccessible (screen-reader ready)Configurable reading settings, including resizable type and night reading modeInstructor and student note-taking, highlighting, bookmarking, and search Learning Catalytics™ helps you generate class discussion, customize your lecture, and promote peer-to-peer learning with real-time analytics. As a student response tool, Learning Catalytics uses students’ smartphones, tablets, or laptops to engage them in more interactive tasks and thinking.NEW! Upload a full PowerPoint® deck for easy creation of slide questions.NEW! Team names are no longer case sensitive.Help your students develop critical thinking skills.Monitor responses to find out where your students are struggling.Rely on real-time data to adjust your teaching strategy.Automatically group students for discussion, teamwork, and peer-to-peer learning. Dynamic Study Modules help students study effectively on their own by continuously assessing their activity and performance in real time. Here's how it works: students complete a set of questions with a unique answer format that also asks them to indicate their confidence level. Questions repeat until the student can answer them all correctly and confidently. Once completed, Dynamic Study Modules explain the concept using materials from the text. These are available as graded assignments prior to class, and accessible on smartphones, tablets, and computers. NEW! Instructors can now remove questions from Dynamic Study Modules to better fit their course.