[Ebook PDF] Discovering Nutrition, 6th Edition

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[Ebook PDF] Discovering Nutrition, 6th Edition

ISBN-13: 978-1284139464
ISBN-10: 1284139468

Author: Paul Insel (Author), Don Ross (Author), Kimberley McMahon (Author), Melissa Bernstein (Author)

Written with non-majors in mind, Discovering Nutrition, Sixth Edition introduces students to the fundamentals of nutrition with an engaging and personalized approach. The text focuses on teaching behavior change and personal decision making with an emphasis on how our nutritional behaviors influence lifelong personal health and wellness, while also presenting up-to-date scientific concepts in a number of innovative ways. Students will learn practical consumer-based nutrition information using the features highlighted throughout the text, including For Your Information boxes presenting controversial topics, Quick Bites offering fun facts, and the NEW feature Why Is This Important? opens each section and identifies the importance of each subject to the field.

PREFACE
Welcome to the sixth edition of Discovering Nutrition.
With changes in nutrition-related information having never been more exciting or important than they are today, learning about nutrition should be stimulating and engaging. With that in mind, Discovering Nutrition takes students on a fascinating journey beginning with curiosity and ending with solid knowledge and a healthy dose of skepticism. Knowledge is power, and our mission is to offer students the tools to logically interpret nutrition information provided by the news media, popular entertainment, food labels, and government agencies.
Our goal is to create sophisticated consumers of nutritional science as well as nutrition information.
Discovering Nutrition is unique in its behavioral approach, challenging students not just to memorize material, but to act on it. Familiar experiences and choices beckon students into each chapter. Analogies
illuminate difficult concepts. We address important topics that students are curious about, ranging from functional foods and supplements to vegetarianism, athlete diets, and linkages between diet and chronic disease. In special spotlights, we focus attention on topics like alcohol, eating disorders, obesity, and complementary nutrition. For those instructors wishing to cover metabolism, we also include a “Spotlight on Metabolism and Energy Balance” that provides a friendly tour of the metabolic pathways. For this edition, we have significantly revised two areas that are of especially high interest, Chapter 9 “Nutrition for Physical Performance” and the “Spotlight on Eating Disorders,” to reflect the current state of knowledge.
Accessible Science
Discovering Nutrition makes use of the latest in learning theory and balances the behavioral aspects of nutrition with an accessible approach to scientific concepts. This text is intended to be a comprehensive resource that communicates nutrition both graphically and personally. We present technical concepts in an engaging and friendly way with an appealing, stepwise, and parallel development of text and annotated illustrations. Illustrations in all chapters use consistent representations. Each type of nutrient, for example, has a distinct color and shape. Icons of an amino acid, a protein, a triglyceride,
and a glucose molecule represent “characters” in the nutrition story and are instantly recognizable as they appear throughout the text.
This text leads the way in depicting important biological and physiological phenomena, such as emulsification, glucose regulation, digestion and absorption, and fetal development. Extensive graphic presentations make nutrition and physiological principles come alive.
2015–2020 Dietary
Guidelines for Americans
The eighth edition of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans emphasizes following a healthy and varied eating pattern that limits calories from added sugars and saturated fats, reduces sodium intake, and incorporates more vegetables and whole grains. On the whole, this edition reflects advances in the scientific understanding of the importance of improving diets and increasing physical activity, two of the most important factors in reducing obesity and preventing chronic diseases in Americans. Focused on science-based recommendations on food and nutrition, the Dietary Guidelines empowers the American public to make shifts in what they eat and drink in favor of good health. As you read this text, look for key recommendations of the Dietary Guidelines highlighted in the margins.
Food Labeling
The Food and Drug Administration announced a new and redesigned Nutrition Facts label that will be required on most packaged food by January 2020. In an effort to encourage consumers to make more informed decisions, changes on the new label include such things as highlighting calories per serving and serving sizes more prominently, featuring a separate line showing how much sugar has been added to the food, and including updated Dietary Value information. The new label is discussed in Chapter 2 and has been incorporated into all Label to Table features found throughout the text.