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MindTapV2.0 for Brown's Nutrition Now, Enhanced Edition, 1 term Instant Access, 8th Edition

Judith E. Brown

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MindTapV2.0 for Brown's Nutrition Now, Enhanced Edition, 1 term Instant Access 8th Edition by Judith E. Brown
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MindTapV2.0 for Brown\u2019s Nutrition Now, Enhanced, 8th Edition 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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Judith E. Brown

Judith E. Brown is a nutrition researcher, writer and speaker who provides consultation services to the food and pharmaceutical industries as well as government health programs. As a professor emeritus of the Division of Epidemiology and the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Minnesota, she successfully obtained and completed large, competitively funded research grants related to nutrition and health. Her areas of expertise include scientific advising on new product development, advising on product evaluation studies, public speaking to professional groups, consumer-oriented publications on topics specific to health and nutrition and expert opinion papers on the safety and efficacy of nutrients, neutraceuticals and fortified products. Dr. Brown has more than 30 years of instructional experience in the field of nutrition and has written more than 100 research articles for publication. An avid researcher and an exceptional writer and teacher, she is one of the most influential and respected authors in the field.

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  • Updated Diet & Wellness Plus Skill-Building activities enable students to learn about the reports and nutrient information without data entry.
  • NEW! Debunk the Junk activities give students the critical skills needed to evaluate and identify nutrition misinformation they may encounter.
  • NEW! Global Nutrition Watch activities are newly updated with more current articles to ensure that students stay engaged and can connect what they're learning to the real world.
  • MindTap helps streamline your workflow with carefully curated content and a unique set of tools, saving you valuable time in your course preparation. Automatically graded assignments and quizzes also provide students with instant feedback on their work.
  • Organizational and study tools designed to better manage students' limited time, allowing them to complete assignments whenever and wherever they are ready to learn.
  • A single destination that reflects exactly what’s important to you, the instructor, helps students save money in their course materials.
  • The Progress app lets you track students in real time and adjust the course as needed--based analytics of interactivity in the course.
  • The MindTap Mobile App lets you keep your students informed of assignments, 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.
  • StudyHub is a one-stop-studying tool that allows you to deliver important information and empowers your students to personalize their experience. Share content from the MindTap Reader and create notes and study guides to help students focus and succeed.
  • 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.
  • Stay organized and efficient in your course with MindTap—a single destination and a single log-in with all the course material and study tools you need to succeed. Built-in apps leverage the latest learning technology to help you stay connected to your course and your instructor.
  • The MindTap Reader accommodates a variety of learning styles by allowing students to hear the text material read aloud, print material for on-the-go preparation, and take notes or highlight within the Reader itself while also capturing their notes within the linked StudyHub App.
  • Flashcards are pre-populated to provide students with a jumpstart on course preparation and studying, or they can create their own customized cards as they move through the course material.

Table of Contents

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Part I: NUTRITION BASICS AND TOOLS FOR PLANNING.
1. Key Nutrition Concepts and Terms.
2. The Inside Story about Nutrition and Health.
3. Ways of Knowing about Nutrition.
4. Understanding Food and Nutrition Labels.
5. Nutrition, Attitudes, and Behavior.
6. Healthy Diets, the Dietary Guidelines, MyPlate, and More.
Part II: FOOD IN THE BODY.
7. How the Body Uses Food: Digestion and Absorption.
8. Calories! Food, Energy, and Energy Balance.
9. Obesity to Underweight: The Highs and Lows of Weight Status.
10. Weight Control: The Myths and Realities.
11. Disordered Eating: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia, and Pica.
Part III: THE MACRONUTRIENTS: CARBOHYDRATES.
12. Useful Facts about Sugars, Starches, and Fiber.
13. Diabetes Now.
14. Alcohol: The Positives and Negatives.
Part IV: THE MACRONUTRIENTS: PROTEIN.
15. Proteins and Amino Acids.
16. Vegetarian Diets.
17. Food Allergies and Intolerances.
Part V: THE MACRONUTRIENTS: FAT.
18. Fats and Cholesterol in Health.
19. Nutrition and Heart Disease.
Part VI: VITAMINS, MINERALS, AND SUPERFOODS.
20. Vitamins and Your Health.
21. Phytochemicals.
22. Diet and Cancer.
23. Good Things to Know About Minerals.
24. Dietary Supplements and Functional Foods.
25. Water Is an Essential Nutrient.
26. Nutrition-Gene Interactions in Health and Disease.
Part VII: NUTRITION AND FITNESS.
27. Nutrition and Physical Fitness for Everyone.
28. Nutrition and Physical Performance.
Part VIII: NUTRITION IN THE LIFE CYCLE.
29. Good Nutrition for Life: Pregnancy, Breastfeeding, and Infancy.
30. Nutrition for the Growing Years: Childhood through Adolescence.
31. Nutrition and Health Maintenance for Adults of All Ages.
Part IX: GLOBAL CONSIDERATIONS.
32. The Multiple Dimensions of Food Safety.
33. Aspects of Global Nutrition.

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  • ISBN-10: 035702172X
  • ISBN-13: 9780357021729
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