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MindTap Nutrition, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Sizer’s Nutrition: Functional Approach, 14th Edition

Frances Sizer

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MindTap Nutrition, 1 term (6 months) Instant Access for Sizer’s Nutrition: Functional Approach 14th Edition by Frances Sizer
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MindTap Nutrition for Sizer’s Nutrition: Functional Approach is the digital learning solution that powers students from memorization to mastery. It 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.

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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 M.S. 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 organizations in her community.

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  • MindTap helps streamline your workflow with carefully curated content and a unique set of tools saving you valuable time in your course preparations. In addition, automatically grades assignments and quizzes while also providing students with instant feedback on their work.
  • Provide students with organizational and study tools designed to better manage their limited time, allowing them to complete assignments whenever and wherever they are ready to learn.
  • Save students money in their course materials with a single destination that reflects exactly what’s important to you, the instructor.
  • Track students in real time with the Progress app adjust the course as needed based analytics of interactivity in the course.
  • The Functional Approach information organizes vitamins, minerals, and water within the framework of the physiological functions and the health conditions they impact.
  • The Diet & Wellness Plus App helps students understand how nutrition relates to their personal health goals. Have students track their diet and activity, generate reports, and analyze the nutritional value of the food they eat.
  • With the MindTap Mobile App, you can keep your students informed of assignments, course due dates, or any changes to your course while also arming them with on-the-go study tools like flashcards and quizzing.
  • Build and personalize your course by integrating your own content into the MindTap Reader using your own documents or pull from sources like RSS feeds, YouTube videos, websites, Google Docs and more. Control what content students see and when they see it with a learning path that can be used as-is or matched to your syllabus exactly.
  • Empower students with the information to know where they stand at all times—both individually and compared to the highest performers in class within the student view of the Progress App.
  • Engage students with course material specially customized for them by you streamlined in one proven, easy-to-use interface.
  • The Message Center app helps you to quickly and easily contact students directly from the MindTap platform. Any message posted in the Message Center is communicated directly to each student enrolled in the course via the communication medium designated by the student.

Table of Contents

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LEARNING PATH

The Functional approach tables organize the vitamins, minerals, and water within the framework of the physiological functions and the health conditions they impact.

Diet & Wellness Plus: Students can track their diet and activity, generate reports based on their data, and use the variety labs and activities that can apply to chapter content.

Pre-Learning Assessment: 15 true/false questions to check student knowledge before diving into the material.

Video Quiz – Students watch a video on a topic relevant to the chapter and then answer questions.

eBook for Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies, Fourteenth Edition. The acclaimed MindTap Reader boasts a multimedia rich experience with tagged note-taking, highlighting and bookmarking for easy study guide creation.

Study Guide – Summary and key objectives from the chapter are followed by study questions.

A Closer Look - New activities that have students work through conceptual questions to better understand nutrition tough topics.

Pop-up Tutors - videos that give students extra help on difficult concepts, such as an overview of the GI tract and metabolism.

Case study followed by multiple choice questions to engage students to connect to the real world and think critically.

Global Nutrition Watch Activities – A peer reviewed article is presented, followed by three auto-graded questions.

Post-Learning Assessment – Based on topics covered in the Pre-Test, this 15-question multiple-choice test checks to see what the student has learned.

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  • ISBN-10: 1337113557
  • ISBN-13: 9781337113557
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