Nutrition: An Applied Approach, 6th edition

Link nutrition concepts to functional benefits

Nutrition: An Applied Approach introduces non-majors to nutrition in a lively narrative that continually connects facts to students’ circumstances, lifestyles, and goals. Promoting long-term learning without rote memorization, its key focus areas include functions of vitamins and minerals in the body, fluid and electrolyte balance, antioxidant function, bone health, energy metabolism, and blood health. 

The 6th Edition adds new topic areas throughout, introduces new links to tested and reviewed recipes, updates and expands Learning Objectives, adds new nutrition-application questions and new multiple-choice questions in each Study Plan, adds Critical Thinking Questions to every Nutrition Debate box, and much more.

Hallmark features of this title

• Focus Figures full-page displays cover 15 critical topics, breaking down some of the toughest issues in nutrition with clear, easy-to-follow graphics and text.
• In Depth mini chapters delve more deeply into topics such as food allergens, cardiovascular disease, alcohol, diabetes, and others.
• NutriCase case studies in each chapter and in each In Depth mini chapter help students apply material to everyday life. Each features 1 of 5 distinct characters who appear throughout the book.
• Nutrition Myth or Fact, You Do the Math, and Nutrition Label Activity features encourage critical thinking and out-of-the box applications. Hot Topics give brief snapshots of current topical issues, in a succinct alternative to the more in-depth coverage of nutritional controversies featured in the popular Nutrition Debate feature.
• Test Yourself quiz questions at the beginning of each chapter pique students’ interest by raising and dispelling common misconceptions about nutrition, with answers located at the end of each chapter. Study Plans conclude each chapter, tying chapter learning outcomes to the review and math questions, and include the Test Yourself true/false answers and resources.
• Quick Tips help students incorporate better nutrition into daily life in a succinct list format (shopping advice, food preparation tips, eating out ideas, and more). Eating Right All Day highlights tasty suggestions to improve students’ daily meals, in a breakfast/lunch/dinner/snack format.

New and updated features of this title

• New and replaced illustrations, photographs, names, and descriptions encompass a greater diversity of people including age, sex, race, ethnicity, body type, and ability.
• Diversity, equity and inclusion updates reflect male/female in discussions on biological sex based on chromosomes, gene expression, actions of hormones and the use of non-stigmatizing terms (such as "person with an alcohol use disorder" rather than "alcoholic").
• Updated discussions of clinical topics such as body mass index (BMI), energy intake and expenditure, and others reflect differences among people of different backgrounds and body types.
• Substantially revised and expanded discussion of the gut microbiome (formerly referred to as the GI flora) includes a new Nutrition Debate: Should You Grow Your Microbiome?
• New nutrition-application questions and new multiple-choice questions are offered in the end-of-chapter Study Plan. Also, all Nutri-Cases characters and scenarios are entirely new to this edition.
• Updated and expanded chapter-opening Learning Objectives throughout are added to each In Depth feature. Critical Thinking Questions are now added to every chapter’s Nutrition Debate box, with new topic areas added.
• New links to recipes developed by the Food Hero team at Oregon State University’s Extension Service are provided. All have been tested and reviewed for flavor, ease of preparation, and cost.