This second edition of Visualizing Nutrition: Everyday Choices includes the most recent nutrition recommendations, some new features, and improved illustrations and critical thinking pedagogy.
- Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010: The new recommendations of the 2010 Dietary Guidelines have been described in chapter 2 and addressed in all applicable subsequent chapters.
- MyPlate: The USDAs new 2011 guide to making healthy food choices is introduced in chapter 2. Illustrations and discussions of the MyPlate recommendations and how to apply them are included in chapters throughout the book.
- Updated 2011 Dietary Reference Intake values for vitamin D and calcium: These are introduced in chapters 7 and 8 and applied where applicable in the chapters where recommendations for infants, children, teens, and older adults are addressed.
- Debate: This new feature helps students understand that there are not always clear answers to nutrition questions and allows them to see both sides of controversial topics and think critically about these issues. Debates address topics such as “How involved should the government be in your food choices?”, “Should You Be Gluten Free?”, “Should you avoid high–fructose corn syrup?”, and “Is Surgery a Good Solution to Obesity?”.
- Improved layout and labeling of illustrations: In this new edition the authors rethought the layout, labels, arrow placement, and font size of many of the illustrations to make them easier to understand and more informative.
- New visuals with Critical and Creative Thinking Questions: Graphs, charts, and illustrations have been included with Critical and Creative Thinking Questions, adding a visual component to the thought processes.
- Thinking it Through: These case driven exercises use a logical step by step progression of information and questions to help students think through nutrition problems. Topics include Using Food Labels to Make Healthy Choices, Improving Heart Health and Genetics, Lifestyle, and Body Weight.
- Online Resources: This end of chapter features provides students with a few reliable Web sites that they can visit to find additional information relevant to the chapter.
- New Critical Thinking Pedagogy: The following types of questions appear with visuals throughout the book and answers are provided at the end of the book.
- Ask Yourself:These fill-in, multiple-choice, or short answer closed-ended questions require students to answer, focusing on the visual itself and are meant to make sure students understand the concept presented in the visual.
- Think Critically: These thought-provoking questions ask students to apply what they have learned in order to interpret, explain, or think beyond what they observe in the image. Think critically questions are always included with What A Scientist Sees, Debates, and What is Happening In this Picture?
- Interpreting Data:These fill-in, multiple-choice, or short answer closed-ended question ask students to reach conclusions based on data in the figures they are studying.
