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Discovering Nutrition Paul Insel

Discovering Nutrition By Paul Insel

Discovering Nutrition by Paul Insel


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Discovering Nutrition by Paul Insel

Each new print copy includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a comprehensive and interactive eBook, animations, student practice activities and assessments, a full suite of instructor resources, and learning analytics reporting tools. 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. New & Key Features of the Sixth Edition: NEW - Why Is This Important? feature found within the margin of each section, describes the importance of each subject to the field and the general population in practical terms UPDATED - The Spotlight on Eating Disorders has been heavily revised and modernized to speak to today's students UPDATED - Revised to reflect the 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, as well as the new Nutrition Facts label introduced in May 2016. NEW - The new Getting Personal feature, found in the Learning Portfolio at the end of each chapter, encourages students to apply learned concepts to their own lives

About Paul Insel

Dr. Insel is an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciencesat Stanford University. In addition to being the Principal Investigator on several NIH nutrition projects, he is the senior author of the seminal text in health education and has co-authored several best-selling nutrition books. Mr. Ross is co-director of the California Institute of Human Nutrition. For 15 years he has created health and nutrition educational materials for consumers, professionals, and college students. He has special expertise in communicating complicated physiological processes with easily understood graphical presentations. NIH selected his Travels with Cholesterol for distribution to consumers. His multidisciplinary focus brings together the fields of psychology, nutrition, biochemistry, and medicine. Kimberley McMahon is a registered and licensed dietitian. She received her undergraduate degree from Montana State University and master's degree from Utah State University. She has taught nutrition courses in both traditional and online settings. In addition to co-authoring leading nutrition textbooks-including Nutrition and Discovering Nutrition-she has contributed to and authored textbook chapters on a variety of nutrition topics and is the President of McMahon Nutrition Education Consulting, LLC. Her interests and experiences are in the areas of wellness, weight management, sports nutrition, and eating disorders. Dr. Melissa Bernstein is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist, Licensed Dietitian, Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and a Diplomat of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She received her doctoral degree from the Gerald J. and Dorothy R. Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University in Boston, MA. In her position as Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Nutrition at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science (North Chicago, Illinois), she is innovative in creating and teaching engaging and challenging online nutrition courses. Her interests include nutrition for a healthy lifestyle, physical activity and holistic wellness. Dr. Bernstein is the coauthor of the Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Food and Nutrition for Older Adults: Promoting Health and Wellness. In addition to co-authoring Nutrition, Discovering Nutrition, Nutrition Across Life Stages, Nutrition for the Older Adult, and Nutrition Assessment, Clinical and Research Applications, she has contributed, authored, and reviewed textbook chapters and peer-reviewed journal publications and participates on numerous advisory and review boards.

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CIN1284139468G
9781284139464
1284139468
Discovering Nutrition by Paul Insel
Used - Good
Hardback
Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
20180221
848
N/A
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