Nutrition for Life capitalizes on students’ natural interest in nutrition by demonstrating how it relates directly to their health and daily lives. This book is unique among introductory texts in its presentation of nutrients based on function, rather than chemical classification. Within the vitamins and minerals chapters, micronutrients are organized by their various functions within the body (such as tissue guardians, antioxidants, energy generators, essential electrolytes, mineral power plants, blood fortifiers, bone builders), enabling students to think about them conceptually while also understanding their basic roles in the body. This discourages rote memorization and promotes fuller and more accessible understanding of each micronutrients’ importance. For those instructors who still want their students to understand the traditional chemical organization, the micronutrient chapters include detailed tables and overviews of water-soluble and fat-soluble vitamins, and the trace and major minerals.

Beyond the functional approach, Nutrition for Life includes new applied features such as Eating Right All Day, Foods You Don’t Know You Love Yet, and end-of-chapter Cooking videos, which gives students all they need to know to put good nutrition information into action. The Third Edition also includes a Nutri-Case in each chapter plus the new MyPlate food patterns and recommendations. The art and photos have also been updated, along with a fresh interior design.

Features

• Game Plan boxes contain strategies for adopting new, healthier eating and lifestyle changes. These boxes appear in most chapters and provide specific tips and guidelines on how to improve diet and lifestyle choices.
• The What About You? box is a self-assessment feature that appears in most chapters. Each box contains checklists, questionnaires, food log tables, and other formats that help students re-examine and better integrate core content.
• Nutri-Cases are short case studies featuring five reoccurring characters, designed to  help students relate to and apply the material they learn across the text.
• Nutrition Myth or Fact? boxes help dispel common misconceptions and teach students how to critically evaluate information they pick up from advertising, mass media, and their peers.
• Nutrition Label Activities teach students how to read and evaluate labels from real food products so they can make educated choices about the foods they eat.
• Highlight boxes provide further insight into popular topics that students will recognize from the media and popular culture, such as the impacts of fad diets, and the effectiveness of herbal supplements.
• Healthwatch headings appear within the body of the text and are designed to call out content on specific health effects.
• A brief Test Yourself quiz at the beginning of each chapter piques students’ interest in the topics to be covered by raising and dispelling common misconceptions about nutrition. The answers to these questions can be found at the end of each chapter.
• End-of-chapter review questions allow students to assess their retention and understanding of the material they have just covered.
• Recap paragraphs help students review what they have just read and serve as useful study tools.
• A rich art and photo program includes high-quality, accurate images, graphs, and illustrations that help students visualize and focus on the core information they need to learn.
• References and Web Links provide students with all of the references used in the chapter as well as related web links for further information and study.
• Journaling activities called “Where I’m starting from…” and “Where I’m at now…” have been added to the margins at the beginning of each chapter.
• Nutrition Label Activities have been enhanced for more interactivity and better understanding of the content.
  
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