Nutrition: Concepts & Controversies
By Frances Sizer, Ellie Whitney, Mary Wissmann
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"Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies" takes a weight-neutral approach to nutrition and presents the latest research on health and behavior change in pursuit of lifelong good health. A market leader for nearly four decades, this text balances coverage of important scientific research and nutrition fundamentals with applications to everyday life. To empower students to make healthy choices, the engaging coverage of controversial topics helps them sort through nutrition fads, facts and misinformation. The text is available with MindTap. MindTap empowers nutrition learning with interactive tools like A Closer Look and Debunk the Junk. Use the Diet and Wellness Plus diet analysis software to track diet, activities and healthy behaviors and explore over 100,000 foods, including global cuisines and brand-name items with easy access to reports that show added sugars.
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"Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies" takes a weight-neutral approach to nutrition and presents the latest research on health and behavior change in pursuit of lifelong good health. A market leader for nearly four decades, this text balances coverage of important scientific research and nutrition fundamentals with applications to everyday life. To empower students to make healthy choices, the engaging coverage of controversial topics helps them sort through nutrition fads, facts and misinformation. The text is available with MindTap. MindTap empowers nutrition learning with interactive tools like A Closer Look and Debunk the Junk. Use the Diet and Wellness Plus diet analysis software to track diet, activities and healthy behaviors and explore over 100,000 foods, including global cuisines and brand-name items with easy access to reports that show added sugars.
Reinforce Key Concepts: To promote learning retention, each chapter includes features such as Self Check tests and Consumer’s Guide quizzes. Additionally, Controversy critical-thinking questions encourage deeper engagement with the material.
Food Features: These sections help readers make food choices according to science, bridging nutrition theory and practice in the process.
Controversial Topics: End-of-chapter Controversy essays encourage students to investigate hot topics, the newest scientific evidence and emerging issues in nutrition. Critical-thinking questions help them to form opinions based on research.
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