Help students learn to think critically about nutrition information

Examining the Evidence stimulates thought and discussion through research findings on controversial or confusing “hot” topics and includes critical-thinking questions. This feature guides students through evaluating scientific research and encourages them to become critical media consumers of nutrition information.
True or False? Pretests open each chapter, posing true/false questions to help students recognize that what they think they know about nutrition isn’t always accurate. Answers are given at the end of the chapter, and a true/false icon identifies locations of answers within the chapter.
Updated - Increased coverage of current topics that interest students such as the microbiome and food waste have been added.

Visually guide students through nutrition concepts

Focus Figures in each chapter are in-depth figures designed to teach key concepts in nutrition through bold, clear, and detailed visual presentations. All Focus Figures are supported by Focus Figure Walkthroughs, where Joan Salge Blake breaks down the figure on video, as if she were explaining the concept to a student in person.
Exploring Micronutrients pages incorporate photos, illustrations, and text to present each vitamin and mineral. Each micronutrient is discussed using the same categories (forms, functions, daily needs, food sources, toxicity and deficiency symptoms) for a consistent and easy-to-study format. These enable students to identify at-a-glance the key aspects of each nutrient.
Visual Chapter Summaries tied to Learning Outcomes give students a clear learning path through each chapter and are organized by learning outcomes. Each chapter starts with numbered outcomes, which then are repeated at the beginning of the associated chapter section and then summarized in the Take Home Message that concludes each section. The end-of-chapter Visual Chapter Summary is organized by outcome as well, reinforcing the student’s review of key information. The summaries include important art and photos from the chapter and serve as concise study and review tools, with accompanying activities in Mastering Nutrition. In addition, Check Your Understanding questions encourage student review and are tied to learning outcomes.

Help students make healthy eating choices and relate nutrition to their own lives

Updated - Practical Tips Videos show Joan Salge Blake as she walks students through making better eating choices in familiar environments, based on a choice related to the chapter topic. Examples include a pizza parlor, deli, coffee shop, breakfast choices on-the-go, fitness smoothies, and much more. These dynamic videos are provided in full-screen format in the Instructor Resource Materials in Mastering Nutrition for easy instructor access in class, referenced in the printed text, and are also embedded within the eText.
Health Connection: A Case Study:The connections between nutrition and disease are explored in new case studies written for every chapter. The case study introduces students to a person experiencing a health problem, explores the interplay between nutrition and disease, and concludes with follow-up critical-thinking questions.

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Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience that can be adopted on its own as the main course material. It lets students highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place, even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it. Educators can easily share their own notes with students so they see the connection between their eText and what they learn in class – motivating them to keep reading, and keep learning. Learn more about Pearson eText.

Mastering™ is the teaching and learning platform that empowers you to reach every student. By combining trusted author content with digital tools developed to engage students and emulate the office-hour experience, Mastering personalizes learning and improves results for each student. Mastering Nutrition includes single-sign-on access to MyDietAnalysis software to give students the tools to track their diet and activity and run reports on various macro- and micro-nutrients consumption. Learn more about Mastering Nutrition.

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Dynamic Study Modules help students study effectively–and at their own pace. How? By keeping them motivated and engaged. The assignable modules rely on the latest research in cognitive science, using methods–such as adaptivity, gamification, and intermittent rewards–to stimulate learning and improve retention. Each module poses a series of questions about a course topic. These question sets adapt to each student’s performance and offer personalized, targeted feedback to help them master key concepts.
With Learning Catalytics, you’ll hear from every student when it matters most. You pose a variety of questions that help students recall ideas, apply concepts, and develop critical-thinking skills. Your students respond using their own smartphones, tablets, or laptops. You can monitor responses with real-time analytics and find out what your students do – and don’t – understand. Then, you can adjust your teaching accordingly and even facilitate peer-to-peer learning, helping students stay motivated and engaged. Updated for this edition: newly added clicker questions from the Digital Instructional Resources. All questions will be specifically tagged to Nutrition & You and non-majors nutrition.
Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience available within Mastering. It allows students to easily highlight, take notes, and review key vocabulary all in one place–even when offline. Seamlessly integrated videos and other rich media engage students and give them access to the help they need, when they need it.

Empower each learner: Each student learns at a different pace. Personalized learning, including adaptive tools and wrong-answer feedback, pinpoints the precise areas where each student needs practice and gives all students the support they need – when and where they need it – to be successful.

MyDietAnalysis is included with Mastering Nutrition at no additional charge, and offers an up-to-date, accurate, reliable, and easy-to-use program for your students’ diet analysis needs. Featured is a database of nearly 50,000 foods and multiple reports. Students can track their diet and activity intake accurately–anytime and anywhere–from any device!

New - MyDietAnalysis Personalized Dietary Analysis activities guide students in a thorough investigation of their dietary intake and are focused on the most commonly assigned topics in diet analysis projects. Follow-up feedback and a reflection question help students understand how to improve their diets. Activities can also be automatically graded, saving instructors valuable time from grading their students’ lengthy diet analysis projects.

Nutrition Animation Activities explain big picture concepts that help students learn the hardest topics in nutrition. These animations include questions with wrong-answer feedback that address students’ common misconceptions and are updated to be compatible with Mastering and mobile devices.
Visual Chapter Summary Coaching Activities complement each Visual Chapter Summary with hints and feedback that help students with their understanding of one or more learning outcomes and reference each learning outcome within the activity.
Math Video activities provide hands-on practice of important nutrition-related calculations to help students understand and apply the material. Students watch a video showing the calculation and then are asked questions to check for understanding. Questions include wrong-answer feedback.

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Updated - Practical Nutrition Tips videos feature author Joan Salge Blake and give students suggestions on ways to keep nutrition in mind in their everyday lives. Each video is accompanied by assignable questions to ensure understanding. Updated videos include Reading a Food Label, Hidden Sugar in Soda, Enhanced Waters, and more.
Updated - NutriTool Activities are dynamic coaching activities that allow students to apply nutrition concepts that improve their health through interactive mini-lessons that provide hints and feedback. Activities, such as Carbohydrates on a Food Label and FDA Packaging Requirements, have been updated and/or created to reflect recently-updated nutrition standards.
Focus Figure Narrated Walkthroughs provide a video tour of each full-page Focus Figure. These figures explore targeted and integrated topic areas through visual information displays that are bold, clear, and detailed. In these narrated walkthroughs, author Joan Salge Blake breaks down each part of the Focus Figure and further explains them, just as she would in the classroom. Focus Figure Narrated Walkthroughs also have corresponding tutorials in Mastering Nutrition.
Current ABC News videos cover up-to-date hot topics in the nutrition field, bringing nutrition to life and sparking discussion. These are accompanied by multiple-choice questions with wrong-answer feedback.

Improve student results: When you teach with Mastering, student performance often improves. That’s why instructors have chosen Mastering for over 15 years, touching the lives of over 20 million students. See our educator case study on Mastering Nutrition.

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