Combining scientific insights with practical applications, this text delves into balanced diets, nutritional supplements, weight management, and exercise across all life stages. Updated with current dietary guidelines, revised data and real-life scenarios, it empowers students to decode evolving nutritional standards.
Written for major and advanced non-major course offerings, Nutrition, Seventh Edition provides students with a comprehensive, current, and science-based introduction to nutrition concepts, guidelines, and functions. Its student-focused approach provides information about topics and issues that concern them -- a balanced diet, nutritional supplements, weight management, exercise, and much more. Throughout each chapter readers will engage with the latest dietary guidelines, scientific evidence, and national standards to help individuals follow a healthy dietary pattern at every life stage.
Key features:
- Provides updated content reflects the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2022 -2025 released in December of 2020.
- Includes updated Getting Personal features which encourage students to apply their nutritional knowledge to understanding their own diets.
- Incorporates revised food source charts in the vitamins and minerals chapters which more clearly convey common sources for vitamins and minerals.
- Includes revised statistics and data throughout that reflects the current state of nutrition in America and the world.
- Provides the updated Position Statement from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, the American Heart Association, and other organizations.
- Includes new and updated FYI, Going Green, and Quick Bites features which provide in-depth discussions of controversial issues and topics for classroom discussion.
