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New features
New: a pre-packaged laminated supplement the text, including the new Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 to the 2020 update of the healthy people, and updates to the Dietary Reference Intakes of calcium, vitamin D, and sodium.
New: “try” activities added to this version along with “how-to” lessons to promote active learning and encourage students “how to” section listed in the problem-solving task.
NEW: In this version, the “nutritional combinations” function in the problem are related analysis plus diet, and require students to use diet tracking information, to evaluate and compare their personal dietary choose, described in the text dietary goals, explore how knowledge and behaviors have changed, because they understand the nutritional science progress.
New: “pop-up Tutor” lecture videos developed by Dr. Jessica Coppola at Sacramento City College reinforce key concepts and provide students with further guidance and practice on particularly difficult topics, such as metabolism, digestion and absorption .
New: a concise summary of the key concepts in this book provides a detachable learning card chapter, with the number keys, and research issues. These cards are perforated and designed for students to use a quick review of the exam.
New role: highlight explored in Chapter 4, weight gain and weight loss carbohydrates.
New: “Global Nutrition Watch accompanies this text at no additional cost, so currency classroom. Daily updated resource provides convenient access to thousands of current academic journals, newspapers and magazine articles, videos, and podcasts allow students to expand their learning and use these projects and tasks of the source code.
Amendment: updated coverage range throughout each chapter in the 12th edition introduce the latest developments in the field, including a new chapter, the introduction of healthy eating index and assessment of the Dietary Guidelines current American diet, nutritional gene group learn the other information and nutritional regulation of gene expression, a new figures show the 2008 ACSM physical activity guidelines for Americans, of childhood obesity, as well as many other topics updated coverage.
Additional features
“Nutrition in Your Life” chapter openers introduce students to connect chapter topics in student life. This feature is part of the “combination of nutrients, again, the end of each chapter.
Two combination of nutrients at the end of each chapter invite students to evaluate and compare their personal dietary choices, dietary goals described in the text. The combination of nutrients, diet plus.
“How to” section guides readers through problem-solving tasks, such as the calculation of the energy intake of grams of carbohydrates, fat, and protein foods. In this version, each a “how to do” feature is accompanied by “try” activities for students to practice these skills.
Nutrition Network to provide students with the current theme of the website access Charter for more information.
The deeply Comments, Chapter VII, metabolic conversion and interaction, “nutrition” of this difficult topic “provide a clear, in-depth and accurate description, students use familiar phrases and attractive art features, while retaining the level of science, this course is expected.
Complement of this title:
Functional groups of vitamins and minerals, “Understanding Nutrition” (12th Edition)
Study Guide “Understanding Nutrition” (12th Edition)
Diet analysis: two-semester Printed Access Card (10th Edition)
Nutrition Pathways Student Course Guide “Understanding Nutrition” (12th Edition)
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