MyNutritionLab® is a course management resource loaded with valuable teaching resources that make giving assignments and tracking student progress easy. Powered by CourseCompass™, the preloaded content in MyNutritionLab includes everything you need to enhance your traditional course or to create an effective hybrid or online course.

Students can access the preloaded MyNutritionLab resources in the Chapter Contents area. These unsurpassed resources are organized into six categories to guide students logically and efficiently through every chapter: READ IT, SEE IT, STUDY IT, REVIEW IT, THINK ABOUT IT, DO IT.

	READ IT
		Students can no longer say they forgot their text at home. Students can access the text through MyNutritionLab whenever and wherever they have access to the Internet. myeBook pages look exactly like the printed text, offering powerful new functionality for students and instructors. Users can create notes, highlight text in different colors, create bookmarks, zoom, click hyperlinked words and phrases to view definitions, and view in single-page or two-page view. myeBook also links students to associated media files, enabling them to view a video as they read the text.

Chapter Summary

Do your students need reinforcement when reading the text? Our chapter summaries provide quick reviews of the major points and topics covered in each chapter. By going through the chapter summaries, students can determine whether they've understood information about each point.

Web Links

Do you have your students do research papers or are your students interested in how nutrition relates to the web? Students can connect to a variety of online resources that supplement the material presented in each chapter by clicking directly on the web link that directs them to that page.

Nutrition Newsfeed

Provided by the USDA, Nutrition.gov provides easy, online access to government information on food and human nutrition for consumers. Students can click on the link and read news and spotlights about hot nutrition topics which are updated daily.

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SEE IT

Students get the visual aids they need and want with Nutrition animations and ABC News Lecture Launcher Video Clips.

Nutrition Animations

Nutrition animations enliven your classroom lectures and spark student interest. Choose from over 60 animations, 40 of which were created specifically for the introductory nutrition course.

ABC News Lecture Launcher Videos Clips

Nutrition topics come alive with 15 ABC News Lecture Launcher video clips, created in partnership between ABC News and Pearson. Featuring a series of topics from reading food labels and fast food trends to gastric bypass surgery, these videos help stimulate student learning and show relevance to the real world.

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STUDY IT

Alongside all the online resources available through MyNutritionLab, students also have access to the entire Study Guide. Available as a PDF, the Student Study Guide helps students review core concepts through a variety of interesting, relevant, and challenging investigations. The Study Guide also includes key terms questions, text outlines, study questions, completion exercises, etc.

Get Ready for Nutrition is a new online tool that saves classroom time and frustration by helping students quickly prepare for the introductory nutrition course. The interactive website gets students up to speed with basic study skills, math skills, anatomical terminology, basic chemistry, cell biology, and other basics of nutrition. Each topic area includes a pre-test, guided explanation, interactive quizzes and exercises, and end-of-chapter cumulative tests.

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REVIEW IT

Do your students need extra study material that can be accessed from their computer, or even from their mobile phone? Studying for a quiz or an exam has become easy for your students with MyNutritionLab.

• Practice quizzes consist of instantly graded multiple-choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank, and matching quizzes in every chapter, allowing students to check their understanding of the information in the textbook.
• With the Cumulative Test students can create their own quizzes with questions covering multiple chapters to prepare for midterm and final exams.
• An interactive flashcard feature allows students to build a deck of flashcards from the key terms in every chapter, review them online, print them, and export them to their mobile phones! Coming Spring 2009!
• The online glossary allows students to quickly and easily look up definitions for unknown terms.

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THINK ABOUT IT

Students can relate to, think critically about, and apply the concepts they learn in each chapter to their own lives through Nutri-Cases and Critical Thinking Questions.

Nutri-Cases are short case studies featuring five recurring characters that help students relate and apply the material they learn in each chapter. These can be found throughout the chapter. Suggested answers to the in-text cases appear on line so students can check their thinking with one possible answer.

Students can reinforce what they've learned in the chapter by answering Critical Thinking Questions that allow the student to think critically and apply the concepts to life.

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DO IT

Promote active learning for your students by getting them to explore nutrition concepts through various activities.

Find the Quack scenarios at the end of each chapter promote critical thinking and encourage students to become better consumers of nutrition information and more thoughtful judges of marketing claims.

See for Yourself hands-on activities promote hands-on learning by getting students to explore nutrition concepts through activities, interviews, and trips to the grocery store, and allow them to apply what they have learned to their own lives.

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Assessment

With nearly 1000 assessment questions, instructors can give their students the practice they need with assignable quiz and test questions written for the textbook, preloaded and ready to use in the Assessment/Test Manager, accessible from the Control Panel. Instructors can modify these questions and create their own questions.

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Course Management

MyNutritionLab is making teaching nutrition online easier! Instructors can lessen their prep time and simplify their lives with preloaded quiz and test questions (specific to the textbook) that they can assign and/or edit, a gradebook that automatically records student results from assigned tests, and the ability to customize the course as much (or as little) as desired-all through the easy-to-navigate Control Panel.

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Create dynamic lectures in half the time!

Media Manager

Lectures become more dynamic and interactive with our Media Manager teaching tool.

Resources include:

• PowerPoint® Lecture Outlines with embedded videos
• ABC News Lecture Launcher Video Clips
• Game Show Quiz Questions in PowerPoint®
• Clicker Questions for Classroom Response Systems
• All illustrations and tables from the text
• Microsoft® Word files for the Instructor Resource Manual and the Test Bank
• PDF files of Transparency Acetate masters
• Computerized Test Bank, which contains all the questions from the Printed Test Bank in a format that allows instructors to easily incorporate these questions into their exams

Teaching Tool Box

Save hours of valuable planning time with this comprehensive course planning kit. Adjunct, part-time, and full-time faculty will find a wealth of resources in one handy box that reinforce key learning from the text and suit virtually any teaching style. The Teaching Tool Box provides all the prepping and lecture tools an instructor needs. Available only with Thompson, Nutrition: An Applied Approach and Blake, Nutrition and You.

View of tour of the Teaching Toolbox Nutrition: An Applied Approach 2e by Thompson/Manore.

View of tour of the Teaching Toolbox for Nutrition & You by Joan Salge-Blake.

To request a copy of the Teaching Tool Box for Personal Health or Fitness and Wellness, please contact your local Pearson Representative.

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Package Options with any Pearson Nutrition Textbook

No Charge

Eat Right! Healthy Eating in College and Beyond
This handy, full-color 80-page booklet provides students with practical guidelines, tips, shopper's guides and recipes that turn healthy eating principles into blueprints for action. Topics include: healthy eating in the cafeteria, dorm room, and fast food restaurants; planning meals on a budget; weight management; vegetarian alternatives; and how alcohol impacts health.

Other Supplements

Student Study Guide
The Study Guide will help students get the best grade possible with key terms questions, text outlines, study questions, completion exercises, puzzles, and critical thinking sections for each chapter. Save 10% off the entire package price when packaged with the text.

Live Right! Beating Stress in College and Beyond
This booklet gives students useful tips for coping with stressful life challenges both during college and for the rest of their lives. Topics include sleep, managing finances, time management, coping with academic pressure, and relationships. This book also presents an objective overview of some of the gimmicky health-oriented products now being advertised.

MyDietAnalysis 3.0
MyDietAnalysis offers an accurate, reliable and easy-to-use program for your students' diet analysis needs. Available on CD-ROM or online, the program allows students to track their diet and activity, and generate and submit reports electronically. Developed by the nutrition database experts at ESHA Research, Inc. and tailored for use in college nutrition courses, MyDietAnalysis features a database of nearly 20,000 foods and multiple reports. The new 2.0 CD features multiple profiles, a unique activity assessment, and a friendly user-interface. The new 3.0 online version additionally features serving size help, more ethnic foods, and a unique annotation feature on reports so students can respond to your assignment right on the report. MyDietAnalysis 2.0 CD or 3.0 online is available for an additional $8.00 when packaged with the text. URL: www.mydietanalysis.com

Digital 5-Step Pedometer
Help students take strides to better health with this pedometer, a first step toward overall health and wellness. On average, a person should strive to take 10,000 steps a day (the equivalent of walking roughly five miles). This pedometer measures: steps, distance (miles), activity time, calories, and provides a time clock. Available for only $8.50 when packaged with any text.

To request complimentary copies of any these supplementary materials or to request a package ISBN, please consult your local Pearson Benjamin Cummings sales representative.

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Pearson Nutrition Custom Database Program

Like the text but don't want to use all of it, or want to combine some of these chapters with chapters from other Pearson texts? Now you can choose from the full depth and breadth of Pearson titles published for the following courses: Personal Health, Fitness & Wellness, and Nutrition. Select as many or as few chapters as you need to suit your course, and we'll custom publish your unique text. You're in full control of the content, sequence, and price.

• Convenient - Search, review and select the chapters you want using the online bookbuilding site or fax in an order form.
• Flexible - Choose the chapters you want and arrange them in the order you teach.
• Add Your Own Material - Up to 20% of your text can come from other sources, whether it's your writing or third party materials.
• Quality - Your custom text is digitally printed from electronic files, not photocopied, and in the same full four-color as your text.
• Free Evaluation Copy - Request a free evaluation copy to see your book before you decide. Full four color evaluation copies arrive in 2-3 weeks.
• Cost Savings - Students pay only for what is used in your course. Package your custom text with other Pearson Education texts for a student discount.
• Quick Turnaround - Your four color text will be delivered in 6-8 weeks from the time we receive the bookstore order.
• Titles available in the database in early Spring 2009, and Thompson/Manore, Nutrition for Life available by April 2009.

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