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Bring nutrition into focus with an innovative approach. Nutrition: From Science to You, Second Edition provides the tools you need to understand the science of nutrition and successfully apply it in your personal life and future career. This text personalizes nutritional information to engage you in the subject matter, while retaining the scientific rigor needed for academic success. Innovative pedagogical features aid study and review, illustrate key concepts, hone necessary academic skills, promote improved personal nutrition, highlight the importance of nutrition in overall health, and explore the insights of nutrition scientists and other professionals in the field of nutrition. In addition, this revision takes the learning beyond the book with the powerful homework and study tools of MasteringNutrition, where you have key tutorial and coaching activities, complete with hints and wrong answer feedback, allowing you to master key content while saving instructors time. Teaching and Learning Experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students.
Here's how: * Clarify Tough Topics: Focus Figures, and Visual Chapter Summaries all work together to bring clarity to concepts that are hard to understand. * Boost Critical Thinking: Health Connection features, Examining the Evidence features, and Nutrition in Practice case studies encourage students to think critically about nutrition. 0321840534 / 9780321840530 Nutrition: From Science to You Plus MasteringNutrition with eText -- Access Card Package Package consists of 0321840844 / 9780321840844 Nutrition: From Science to You 0321906829 / 9780321906823 MasteringNutrition plus MyDietAnalysis with Pearson eText -- ValuePack Access Card -- for Nutrition: From Science to You

Contents:

1. What Is Nutrition? 2. Tools for Healthy Eating 3. Digestion, Absorption, and Transport 4. Carbohydrates 5. Lipids 6. Proteins 7. Alcohol 8. Metabolism 9. Fat-Soluble Vitamins 10. Water-Soluble Vitamins 11. Water 12. Major Minerals 13. Trace Minerals 14. Energy Balance and Body Composition 15. Weight Management 16. Nutrition and Fitness 17. Life Cycle Nutrition: Pregnancy through Infancy 18. Life Cycle Nutrition: Toddlers through Adolescence 19. Life Cycle Nutrition: Adults through the Later Years 20. Food Safety Technology and Availability 21. Hunger at Home and Abroad