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The study guide provides students with a detailed review of chapter material, reiterating chapter objectives and key concepts. The guide challenges students with crossword puzzles and matching exercises reviewing glossary terms from the chapter, and probing short answer and essay questions to test the students' overall grasp of the material. Included is a sample test for each chapter, as well as helpful study tips.
Each Study Guide chapter includes Chapter Objectives; Key Concepts; Study Aids; and approximately 20 Summing Up questions (fill-in-the-blank paragraph format), 10 chapter study questions (short essay format), 10 short answer questions, 3-5 problems (calculations), and 20 multiple choice (sample test questions). Total of 60-70 questions per chapter. Answers are provided at the end of each chapter for all types of questions.
"What is food studies? How did it come about as an academic field? Where is it going and what's its impact? Faculty members and former graduate students of the NYU Food Studies program answer by sharing their experiences, their research, and their ideas about what's next. This collection of essays contributes to the reflection about the ongoing dialogue between food studies, the humanities, social sciences, and hard sciences, while mapping paths for intellectual and social engagement with food systems and its most urgent issues"--
Abstract: A comprehensive reference text for college nutrition students, dietitians, clinical nutritionists, and other health professionals presents detailed, authoritative, colorfully-illustrated material on a variety of practical areas involving interactions between nutrition and health. Topics addressed by the 25 text chapters include: nutrition-health interaction concepts; diet planning guides; the characteristics and requirements of each of the major nutrietn classes; nutritional needs at different life stages; nutrient digestion, absorption, and in vivo transport; weight control; food safety; nutritional assessment and care strategies; hospital dietetics; nutritional and drug therapy; nutritional intervention in stress due to surgery, infection, and burns; nutritional interactions with system and organ disorders (gastrointestinal tract; liver; exocrine pancreas; gallbladder; heart and blood vessels; kidneys); and nutritional care of cancer patients. Ancillary data and information (including food composition data, RDA's, biochemical pathways, supplements, and enteral formulas) are presented in 12 appendices.