Nutrition: Everyday Choices, 1st Edition

Mary B. Grosvenor, M.S., R.D. Mary Grosvenor received her B.A. degree in English from Georgetown University and her M.S. in Nutrition Sciences from the University of California at Davis. She is a registered dietitian with experience in public health, clinical nutrition, and nutrition research. She has published in  peer-reviewed journals in the areas of nutrition and cancer and methods of assessing dietary intake. She has taught introductory nutrition at the community college level and currently lives with her family in a small town in Colorado. She is continuing her teaching and writing career and is till involved in nutrition research via the electronic superhighway.

Lori A. Smolin, Ph.D. Lori Smolin received her B.S. degree from Cornell University, where she studied human nutrition and food science. She received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her doctoral research focused on B Vitamins, homocysteine accumulation, and genetic defects in homocysteine metabolism. She complete postdoctoral training both at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where she studied human obesity, and at the University of California at San Diego, where she studied genetic defects in amino acid metabolism. She has published in these areas in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Smolin is currently at the University of Connecticut, where she teaches both in the Department of Nutritional Sciences and in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology. Courses she has taught include introductory nutrition, lifecycle nutrition, food preparation, nutritional biochemistry, and introductory biology.

· A theme of choice, with an emphasis on critical thinking, helps students analyze the nutritional information that they encounter every day and to apply it to their own diet. This is highlighted in the Piecing It Together and Thinking For Yourself exercises in each chapter. The interaction of nutrition, health, and disease is integrated throughout chapter discussions, rather than being boxed or set apart.
· Chapter Openers include excerpts on current and relevant nutritional topics from recent newspapers or magazines.  In addition, Just a Taste, is a feature that consists of 3 or 4 intriguing questions, motivating students to read the chapter to discover the answers.
· Life Stages icons in the margins highlight the effects of nutritional choices during different stages of development, integrating this information into the topic at hand.  For example, a Life Stage icon in the chapter on protein points out the discussion of the increased protein needs of children.
· Diet Planning Tools –such as the Food Guide Pyramid, Dietary Guidelines, and food labeling information -- is discussed throughout to help students learn how to make wise nutrition choices.
· Your Choice boxes address nutrition issues related to products that consumers might purchase off the shelf, such as dietary supplements.
· Off The Label boxes help students use food labels to make wise choices regarding what foods to buy and eat.
· So, What Should I Eat boxes include a list of specific foods to help students translate the information found in the chapter into simple tips on what they should actually eat. 
· Metabolism discussions are appropriate to the level of the text.  A basic understanding of how nutrients work in the body is essential to really understanding the concepts of nutrition. Everyday Choices includes basic metabolism information presented in an easy to understand and consistent way.  All basic concepts about metabolism as well as other physiological processes will be presented with simplified art that reinforces these difficult concepts. 
· Separate Chapter on Meeting Nutrient Needs: Food, Functional Foods, and Dietary Supplements: In today's food marketplace we get nutrients from natural foods, from food fortified with a variety of substances, and from dietary supplements.  This chapter discusses the benefits of plain old food and food that has had nutrients and other substances added to it, the role of vitamin and mineral supplements in meeting needs, and the role of supplements that are not nutrients, including herbal supplements. In addition to the information provided in this chapter, discussions of dietary supplements is integrated throughout the text with each nutrient and with applicable topics such as weight loss, exercise, and aging. A risk benefit approach is taken in all discussions to show students how to make safe and valid decisions regarding the use of supplements.
· Design and Illustration Program: The authors have taken exceptional care in developing an illustration program for this text to ensure that it reflects the level of the content and the consumer-oriented focus. The artwork is consistent throughout in its style and use of color.  For example a color or symbol that is used to indicate a nutrient or chemical group in one figure will have the same meaning in subsequent figures.  This will allow students to immediately recognize certain features of the art making it easier and faster to understand subsequent art and the concepts they illustrate.
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