Nutrition for Life, 4th edition

For graduate and undergraduate nutrition students

Understanding and applying nutrition to everyday life

The Fourth Edition of Nutrition for Life, MasteringNutrition Edition gives students the tools they need to effectively learn and master nutrition concepts and apply them to their daily lives. This visually rich text is packed with information and exercises to help students understand how the food they eat affects their bodies. Students will learn about essential nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and the chemical organization of micronutrients, while staying engaged with the material through self-assessments, case studies, and study aids. Nutrition for Life organizes information according to how nutrients function in the body, rather than by chemical classification, allowing students to more easily apply their knowledge to everyday situations. This new edition features new Meal Focus Figures, new Focus Figures to illustrate key concepts, and student learning outcomes listed in every chapter and correlated to the end of chapter Study Plan..

Pearson eText is a simple-to-use, mobile-optimized, personalized reading experience available within Mastering Nutrition. 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.

MasteringNutrition is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.

Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MasteringNutrition, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.

Clear, Visually Rich, and Easy to Understand

• NEW! Meal Focus Figures give students a visual comparison of possible meal choices, ranging from high- and low-density meals to meals high in refined carbohydrates vs fiber-rich meals. Each figure offers easy-to-understand comparisons of the key nutrients for that topic as well as clear images of the foods being assessed. New coaching activities complement each figure in MasteringNutrition.  

• Rich art and photos include high-quality, accurate images, graphs, and illustrations that help students visualize and focus on the core information they need to learn.
• Vitamins/Minerals chapter content has been focused and displayed more concisely in table format, with some lesser-known nutrients removed or addressed more succinctly.
• Organizational and pedagogical adjustments have been incorporated selectively, including in the Chapter 1 organization, the lifestyle content, and greater diversity across the text with images that include a wider range of healthy body types and sizes, and broader cultural contexts.
• Former Appendix A (Nutrient Value of Foods) has been removed and is now a stand-alone ancillary (the Food Composition Table).

Tips for Healthier Living

• 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.
• 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.
• Foods You Don’t Know You Love Yet appears throughout the text, highlighting unusual or up-and-coming foods making inroads into the American diet. Users looking for greater diversity in their food choices will find this new feature an exciting addition to cross-cultural content. Featured foods include items such as quinoa and starfruit, in addition to some more familiar foods with newly discovered nutritional benefits.
• Recipes and Cooking content including tips, skills and equipment will be provided in the following ways: cooking videos, organized by chapter, covering basic skills that students can use in their daily lives will be included with the media package.
• What Can I do Today?, an End-of-Chapter feature with 3 bulleted points underscores key content and spurs readers to take action.
• Nutrition Online introduces links to various media resources including podcasts, videos, MP3s, and other web resources relevant to topics in the chapter.

Quizzes and Self-Assessments

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Study Aids

• The end-of-chapter Study Plan includes review questions and summary points that allow students to assess their retention and understanding of the material they have just covered. To give students a cohesive message, the questions have been correlated to the chapte

Learning Outcomes in each chapter allow students to track their own understanding and knowledge of the key concepts.

UPDATED! Review Questions and Chapter Summary bullet points have also been correlated to Learning Outcomes in an integrated StudyPlan so the message and key points are repeated throughout the chapter.

Dynamic and eye-catching full-page Focus Figures depictingsome of the most important and complex processes or concepts discussedin each chapter. These figures provide a visual, step-by-step walkthrough that will helpstudents understand and master these topics.

Meal Focus Figures give students a visual comparison of possible meal choices, ranging from high- and low-density meals to meals high in refined carbohydrates vs fiber-rich meals. Each figure offers easy-to-understand comparisons of the key nutrients for that topic as well as clear images of the foods being assessed. New coaching activities complement each figure in MasteringNutrition.  

UPDATED! Design and art programs have been revised using dynamic colors to add to visual clarity and interest.

UPDATED! 18 NutriTools Coaching Activities allow students to combine and experiment with different food options and learn firsthand how to build healthier meals. The NutriTools have been upgraded to optimize mobile compatibility and accessibility.

Learning Catalytics™ provides open-ended questions students can answer in real time. Through targeted assessments, Learning Catalytics™ helps students develop the critical thinking skills they need for lasting behavior change.

Pre-lecture Reading Questions ensure that students come prepared for lecture by answering multiple choice questions related to the content in the text.

Dynamic Study Modules enable students to study effectively on their own in an adaptive format. Students receive an initial set of questions with a unique answer format asking them to indicate their confidence level.

Also Available with MasteringNutrition^TM

This title is also available with MasteringNutrition–an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts.

Students, if interested in purchasing this title with MasteringNutrition, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.