Nutrition
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Description
- What Is Nutrition?
- Tools for Healthy Eating
- Digestion, Absorption, and Transport
- Carbohydrates
- Lipids
- Proteins
- Alcohol
- Energy Metabolism
- Fat-Soluble Vitamins
- Water-Soluble Vitamins
- Water
- Major Minerals
- Trace Minerals
- Energy Balance and Body Composition
- Weight Management
- Nutrition and Fitness
- Life Cycle Nutrition: Pregnancy Through Infancy
- Life Cycle Nutrition: Toddlers Through Adolescence
- Life Cycle Nutrition: Older Adults
- Food Safety, Technology, and Sustainability
- Global Nutrition and Malnutrition
APPENDICES
- Metabolism Pathways and Biochemical Structures
- Calculations and Conversions
- US Exchange Lists for Meal Planning
- Organizations and Resources
New and updated features of this title
- Inter-professional Nutrition in Practice case studies encourage critical thinking and emphasize the applicability of the content to students’ lives and future careers. Case studies draw on Blake’s experience as a dietitian as well as topics for those pursuing other allied health professions.
- NEW & EXPANDED: Coverage has been added for important topics, including prediabetes, non-celiac gluten sensitivity, FODMAP diet, FITT and high intensity interval training, prebiotics and synbiotics.
- UPDATED: Visual Chapter Summaries mirror the organization of the chapter content and are numbered to correspond with the chapter objectives, serving as concise study and review tools.
- UPDATED: Numbered Learning Outcomes at the beginning of each chapter tie to a specific chapter section, and repeated at the start of each section to enhance student study.
- UPDATED: Take-Home Messages at the end of each main section repeat the learning outcome number before a brief summation of the key points.
- UPDATED: Content has been updated throughout to be consistent with the new 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines, data, research, and trends.
For introductory nutrition courses.
A modern and personal approach to nutrition
Nutrition: From Science to You helps students understand the science of nutrition and how to successfully apply it to their personal lives and future careers. Thoroughly updated to better meet the needs of tomorrow’s nutrition and allied health professionals, the 4th Edition provides students with more inter-professional applications, increased coverage of emerging and high interest topics such as the microbiome and Leaky Gut syndrome, and new dietary and nutrition guidelines. New auto-graded MDA Personalized Diet Analysis activities, Focus Figure Narrated Walkthroughs voiced by the author, and a mobile-friendly customizable eText enhance an available Mastering Nutrition, making it an even more effective practice and learning tool for today’s students.
Also available with Mastering Nutrition
Mastering™ Nutrition is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Interactive, self-paced coaching activities provide individualized coaching to help students stay on track. With a wide range of auto-gradable activities available–including animations, videos, NutriTools, and new MyDietAnalysis activities, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts. MasteringNutrition includes single-sign-on access to MyDietAnalysis software to give students the tools to track their diet and activity and run reports on various macro- and micro-nutrients consumption. Learn more.
Students, if interested in purchasing this title with Mastering Nutrition, ask your instructor for the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.
About our authors
Joan Salge Blake, MS, RD, LDN, Boston University
Dr. Joan Salge Blake is a Clinical Associate Professor and Dietetics Internship Director at Boston University’s Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. She teaches both graduate and undergraduate nutrition courses. She received her MS and EdD from Boston University.
Blake is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly the American Dietetic Association) and the Massachusetts Dietetic Association (MAND). She has been a presenter and Presiding Officer at both the AND Annual Meeting and the MAND Annual Convention and is a guest lecturer at both the Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine and the Boston University School of Medicine. She was previously named MDA’s “Young Dietitian of the Year” and is the past Director of Education and Nominating Committee Chairperson for the MDA. She currently serves on the MDA board. Blake has received the Whitney Powers Excellence in Teaching award from Boston University and the Annie Galbraith Outstanding Dietitian award from the Massachusetts Dietetic Association.
In addition to teaching and writing, Blake has a private practice specializing in weight management and lifestyle changes. Blake is often asked to translate complex nutritional issues in popular terms in the media. She has conducted over 1,000 media interviews and is a contributor of nutrition articles in a variety of news outlets. Blake was an AND National Media Spokesperson for nine years.
Kathy D. Munoz, EdD, RDN, Humboldt State University
Kathy D. Munoz is a professor emerita and professor of nutrition in the Department of Kinesiology and Recreation Administration at Humboldt State University. She teaches undergraduate introductory nutrition, exercise nutrition, and weight management courses, and teaching preparation in higher education courses in the Extended Education, College of eLearning. She received her EdD from the University of Southern California in curriculum design and an MS in Foods and Nutrition with a minor in exercise physiology from Oregon State University.
Munoz is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the California Dietetic Association. Her professional memberships include Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine (DIFM), Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition (SCAN), and Weight Management (WM).
Munoz has published articles in Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, Children’s Health Care, the Journal of Nutrition Education, and the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise, and has co-authored a series of nutrition and physical activity curriculum guides for elementary teachers. Munoz has also been recognized for her research in, and development of curriculum for, asynchronous learning.
Stella L. Volpe, PhD, RD, LDN, FACSM, Drexel University
Dr. Stella Lucia Volpe is Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition Sciences at Drexel University. Volpe is a nutritionist and exercise physiologist who has built a program of research focusing on three interrelated areas that traverse the lifespan: (1) obesity and diabetes prevention via mineral supplementation, (2) weight management through diet, exercise, and educational programs, and (3) environmental change leading to weight management. She is conducting a cross-sectional, long-term study assessing body composition, resting metabolic rate, maximal oxygen consumption and diet in athletes. In addition, she has recently completed a three-year, school-based obesity prevention trial.
Volpe received her BS in exercise science from the University of Pittsburgh, her MS in exercise physiology from Virginia Tech, and her PhD in nutrition, also from Virginia Tech. Prior to beginning her faculty appointment at Drexel University, Volpe was on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, and previous to that, she was on the faculty at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Volpe is both a Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist (American College of Sports Medicine [ACSM]), and a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. She is a Fellow of the ACSM. Stella is a competitive athlete in field hockey, rowing, and ice hockey. She enjoys being active with her husband and their German Shepherd dogs, Sasha and Bear.
For introductory nutrition courses.
A modern and personal approach to nutrition
Nutrition: From Science to You helps readers understand the science of nutrition and how to successfully apply it to their personal lives and future careers. Thoroughly updated to better meet the needs of tomorrow’s nutrition and allied health professionals, the 4th Edition provides individuals with more inter-professional applications, increased coverage of emerging and high interest topics such as the microbiome and Leaky Gut syndrome, and new dietary and nutrition guidelines. New auto-graded MDA Personalized Diet Analysis activities, Focus Figure Narrated Walkthroughs voiced by the author, and a mobile-friendly customizable eText enhance Mastering Nutrition, making it an even more effective practice and learning tool for today’s readers.
Also available with Mastering Nutrition
Mastering™ Nutrition is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Interactive, self-paced coaching activities provide individualized coaching to help students stay on track. With a wide range of auto-gradable activities available–including animations, videos, NutriTools, and new MyDietAnalysis activities, students can actively learn, understand, and retain even the most difficult concepts. MasteringNutrition includes single-sign-on access to MyDietAnalysis software to give students the tools to track their diet and activity and run reports on various macro- and micro-nutrients consumption. Learn more.
Note: You are purchasing a standalone product; Mastering Nutrition does not come packaged with this content. Students, if interested in purchasing this title with Mastering Nutrition, ask your instructor to confirm the correct package ISBN and Course ID. Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more information.
If you would like to purchase both the physical text and Mastering Nutrition, search for:
0134735714 / 9780134735719 Nutrition: From Science to You Plus Mastering Nutrition with MyDietAnalysis with Pearson eText — Access Card Package, 4/e
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- 013466826X / 9780134668260 Nutrition: From Science to You
- 0134710738 / 9780134710730 Mastering Nutrition with MyDietAnalysis with Pearson eText — ValuePack Access Card — for Nutrition: From Science to You
Hallmark features of this title
- Focus Figures are in-depth figures designed to teach key nutrition concepts through bold, clear and detailed visual presentations.
- Exploring Micronutrients present each vitamin and mineral. Each micronutrient is discussed using the same categories for a consistent and easy-to-study format.
- Health Connection: A Case Study introduces a person with a health problem, explores the interplay between nutrition and disease, and concludes with follow-up critical-thinking questions.
- Chemistry Boost boxes review chemistry concepts within the context in which students need to know them.
- Calculation Corner boxes walk students through mathematical equations in a chapter and provide practice working the equations.
Additional information
| Dimensions | 1.60 × 8.70 × 10.60 in |
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| Subjects | science, MED060000, higher education, Applied Sciences, Health & Kinesiology, Majors Nutrition |
