Main description:

Key Benefit:

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.

Now included with Nutrition for Life, MasteringNutritionis an online homework, tutorial, and assessment product designed to improve results by helping students quickly master concepts. Students benefit from self-paced tutorials that feature immediate wrong-answer feedback and hints that emulate the office-hour experience to help keep students on track and prepared for lecture.

Key Topics: Nutrition: Making it Work for You; The Human Body: Are We Really What We Eat; Carbohydrates: Plant-Derived Energy Nutrients; Fat: An Essential Energy-Supplying Nutrient; Proteins: Crucial Components of All Body Tissues; Vitamins: Micronutrients With Macro Powers; Minerals: Building and Moving Our Bodies; Fluid Balance, Water, and Alcohol; Achieving and Maintaining a Healthful Body Weight; Nutrition and Physical Activity: Keys to Good Health; Nutrition Throughout the Life Cycle; Food Safety, Technology, and the New Food Movement

Key Market: For graduate and undergraduate nutrition students

0133878368 / 9780133878363 Nutrition for Life Plus MasteringNutrition with MyDietAnalysis with eText -- Access Card Package, 4e

Package consists of:

0133983099 / 9780133983098 MasteringNutrition with MyDietAnalysis with Pearson eText -- Valuepack Access Card -- for Nutrition for Life
0133853365 / 9780133853360 Nutrition for Life, 4/e

Contents:

1. Nutrition: Making it Work for You

2. The Human Body: Are We Really What We Eat

3. Carbohydrates: Plant-Derived Energy Nutrients

4. Fat: An Essential Energy-Supplying Nutrient

5. Proteins: Crucial Components of All Body Tissues

6. Vitamins: Micronutrients With Macro Powers

7. Minerals: Building and Moving Our Bodies

8. Fluid Balance, Water, and Alcohol

9. Achieving and Maintaining a Healthful Body Weight

10. Nutrition and Physical Activity: Keys to Good Health

11. Nutrition Throughout the Life Cycle

12. Food Safety, Technology, and the New Food Movement