Personal Nutrition

A "Scorecard" quiz in each chapter invites students to compare their own knowledge and behavior to nutritional principles and guidelines for healthy eating. Topics include "Rate Your Fats and Health IQ," "Healthy Weight," and "Estimate Your Protein Intake."

"Savvy Diner" features offer food selection and preparation suggestions for healthy eating and reinforce recommendations made in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Topics include buying healthy foods on a limited budget, incorporating whole grains into the diet, and maintaining healthy weight goals when eating out.

"Eat Well, Be Well" features encourage students to make good health and diet a priority, providing practical tips they can apply immediately and sustain throughout their lives. Topics include: "Never Say Diet," "An Eating Pattern for Longevity," and "Color Your Plate for Health."

"Nutrition in Action" features highlight current, important issues and trends, including "The Diet and Blood Pressure: The Salt Shaker and Beyond," "Diet Confusion: Weighing the Evidence," "Food Allergy," and "Organic Foods."

"Spotlight" features use a question-and-answer format to relate current research to chapter topics and encourage critical thinking, often by addressing concerns many students have about nutrition, such as common digestive problems, eating disorders, and pros and cons of using supplements to enhance athletic performance.

Detachable "Study Cards" provide a summary of key points from the text and include a quiz for each chapter to help students review and master the material.

You know what's best for your students and you can deliver it with MindTap for Nutrition! The clear and engaging learning path includes student learning tools—readings, Diet & Wellness Plus, pop-up tutors, activities, and assessments—and guides students through their course. Instructors can easily set their course by customizing the learning path and adding their favorite resources.

Each chapter is updated with the latest research findings, guidelines, statistics, and trends, covering notable new developments in areas such as food label standards, nonnutritive sweeteners, heart-healthy lifestyles, gluten sensitivities, popular weight-loss plans, regulations for school meals and other foods available in public schools, obesity and other nutrition problems among children, and more.

New and improved illustrations help students understand key concepts and learn and retain important facts related to nutrient density, healthy snack choices, food label changes, choking, water balance, blood alcohol levels, nutrient needs in pregnancy, MyPlate for children, and nutrition-related statistics.

Learning objectives in every chapter have been augmented and refined to specify key student outcomes for each major section within the chapter, providing useful context to guide reading, review, classroom activities, assignments, and assessment.

Several new photos are included to engage student interest and showcase real-life applications of chapter material; similarly, chapter 6 includes a new Spotlight feature on vegetarian eating patterns to provide additional depth and detail regarding a nutritional topic of interest to many students.