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A Functional Approach: Vitamins and Minerals for Sizer/Whitney's Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies, 16th Edition

Frances Sizer, Ellie Whitney

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A Functional Approach: Vitamins and Minerals for Sizer/Whitney's Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies 16th Edition by Frances Sizer/Ellie Whitney
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Empower your students to make better nutrition choices and achieve lasting behavior change with NUTRITION: CONCEPTS AND CONTROVERSIES. A market leader for nearly four decades, this text balances coverage of important scientific research and nutrition fundamentals with applications to real life and general well-being. To empower students to make good food choices, the conversational tone and engaging coverage of controversial topics helps them sort through nutrition fads, facts, and misconceptions. NUTRITION: CONCEPTS AND CONTROVERSIES is available with MindTap. MindTap is today's most innovative online learning platform, powers your students from memorization to mastery. MindTap gives you complete control of your course to provide engaging content, challenge every individual and build student confidence.

This pamphlet shows you how to reorganize Sizer's bestselling text to teach your course with the vitamins, minerals, and water within the framework of the physiological functions and the health conditions they impact. The full narrative is unchanged, the unit just covers a different way of looking at the vitamins, minerals and water.

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Frances Sizer

Frances Sienkiewicz Sizer, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A., attended Florida State University, where, in 1980, she received her BS and, in 1982, her MS in nutrition. She is certified as a charter Fellow of the American Dietetic Association and Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She is a founding member and vice-president of Nutrition and Health Associates, an information and resource center in Tallahassee, Florida, that maintains an ongoing bibliographic database tracking research in more than 1,000 topic areas of nutrition. Her textbooks include LIFE CHOICES: HEALTH CONCEPTS AND STRATEGIES; MAKING LIFE CHOICES; THE FITNESS TRIAD: MOTIVATION, TRAINING, AND NUTRITION; and others. She is a primary author of NUTRITION INTERACTIVE, an instructional college-level nutrition game-teaching resource. In addition to writing, she has lectured at universities and at national and regional conferences and serves in several local hunger and homelessness relief organization in her community.

Ellie Whitney

Ellie Whitney grew up in New York City and received her B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in English and Biology at Harvard and Washington Universities. She taught at both Florida State University and Florida A&M University, wrote numerous newspaper columns on environmental matters for the Tallahassee Democrat, and coauthored almost a dozen college textbooks on nutrition, health, and related topics, many of which repeatedly reappear as new editions. She spent three decades exploring outdoor Florida and studying its ecology, and then co-wrote PRICELESS FLORIDA: NATURAL ECOSYSTEMS AND NATIVE SPECIES. Now retired, and more concerned about climate change than any other issue, she volunteers full-time for the nonpartisan national nonprofit Citizens Climate Lobby.

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MindTap for Sizer/Whitney's NUTRITION: CONCEPTS & CONTROVERSIES, A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH, 16th Edition, is the digital learning solution that powers students from memorization to mastery. This "Functional Approach" MindTap includes a small unit before the course that organizes the vitamins, minerals, and water within the framework of the physiological functions and the health conditions they impact. The full narrative is unchanged; the unit just covers a different way of looking at the vitamins, minerals and water. MindTap gives you complete control of your course—to provide engaging content, to challenge every individual and to build their confidence. Empower students to accelerate their progress with MindTap. MindTap: Powered by You. MindTap gives you complete ownership of your content and learning experience. Customize the interactive syllabi, emphasize the most important topics and add your own material or notes in the ebook. Ensure that students are mastering the concepts with activities like A Closer Look and Debunk the Junk. Students can also interact with Diet and Wellness Plus, Cengage's diet analysis app, to learn more about their diets through personalized information, and can create profiles to learn about the health and nutrition of others.