Discovering Nutrition [with Advantage Access]

by Paul M. Insel, Don Ross, Kimberley McMahon

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

Genres: Nonfiction, Textbooks

848 pages, Paperback

First published September 4, 2002

About the author

Paul M. Insel, PhD., is a professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences with Stanford University School of Medicine.

For the associate editor of Annual review of pharmacology and toxicology see: Paul A. Insel.

Reviews

[Tessa King]

Yeah I read the whole textbook. I must be turning into Hermione Granger or something. Except without magic. (Besides the magic of making healthy choices! <- bad joke)

[Beth]

Read this book for college back in 2010's. (can't believe its almost 2020). Anyway, great book, great content, if not a little bit dry like a lot of textbooks are. It basically just presents the facts. Lots of good details to refer back on if you're unsure of recommended doses of vitamins, interactions between competing nutrients, and other good information for general health. I might copy some pages and post them on the wall or refrigerator, because it has some pretty good charts.

[Rose]

I read this text book in college. I mean that- I actually read it not slept through it. Lennie hates this book because it means we eat whole wheat foods now:)

[Cari]

WFS 1400