Description
This text includes a number of features that both spark student interest and help them learn the basics of nutrition.
Chapter Outline
This brief outline of the chapter’s content gives students and instructors an overview of the major topics presented in the chapter.
Case Study
Each chapter begins with a short case study. These health- and disease-oriented vignettes help spur student curiosity and provide a taste of some of the concepts to be explained in the chapter. For example, the case study for Chapter 6 describes the challenges a college stu-dent faces when trying to meet his nutrient needs on a vegan diet. The Chapter 10 case study recounts the story of an athlete who experienced dehydration during an Olympic marathon. The case study in Chapter 9 discusses a baby diagnosed with vitamin D deficiency. These intriguing and entertaining stories link the material in the chapter with everyday health and disease issues. The chapter content then helps students understand the issues associated with each case.
Outcome
Outcome, appearing at the end of each chapter, completes the case study stories begun in the chap-ter introduction. For example, the outcome at the end of Chapter 6 describes how the student is able to improve his vegan diet once he understands complementary pro-teins and recognizes the variety of healthy ethnic vegan choices that are available to him. The outcome in Chapter 9 describes how the vitamin D deficiency is treated and prevented. These “outcomes” review concepts covered in the chapter and illustrate the application of nutri-tion knowledge to clinical situations.
Learning Objectives
Each chapter section begins with one or more learning objectives that indicate, in behavioral terms, what the student must be able to do to demonstrate mastery of the material in the chapter.
Critical-Thinking Exercises
These exercises, which appear in each chap-ter, use a critical-thinking approach to making decisions and solving problems regarding nutri-tion. They help students apply their nutrition knowledge to everyday situations by presenting a nutrition-related problem and then asking a series of provocative questions that lead the stu-dent through the logical progression of thought needed to collect information and solve the problem. Many of these exercises focus on mod-ifying a diet to reduce disease risk or maintain health. For example, the exercise in Chapter 2 focuses on how the food choices of a 22-year-old man can fit on MyPlate and how to use this tool to plan a healthy diet. Chapter 11’s Critical-Thinking exercise takes students through the process of assessing the risk of osteoporosis and modifying a diet to increase calcium intake.
Off the Label
“Off the Label” boxes present in-depth information on food, supple-ment, and even drug labels. Off the Label is designed to show stu-dents how to use labels to make wise choices. For example, the Off the Label in Chapter 4 shows how to use the ingredient list to choose whole-grain products and avoid foods that are high in added sugars. The one in Chapter 9 helps students use the information on Supplement Facts labels to make safe supplement decisions, and in Chapter 10, the Off the Label box discusses the sodium content of packaged foods and shows stu-dents how to use food labels to select low-sodium foods.