Diet Analysis Plus, 2 terms (12 months) Printed Access Card, Printed Access Code, 10 Edition by Wadsworth

Printed Access Code: 10 Edition
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9780538495080
0538495081

Publication Date: 2010-05-28
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Printed Access Code Edition: 10 Edition
Author: Wadsworth
ISBN-10: 0538495081
ISBN-13: 9780538495080

Product Description Take control. Reach your goals. Experience Diet Analysis Plus. Use Diet Analysis Plus to track your diet and physical activity and get a better understanding of how nutrition impacts your life. Use the 20,000+ food database and customizable reports to analyze your diet and adjust your habits to reach personal health goals. Amazon.com Review About This Edition From the Publisher New Features Enhanced search functionality allows users to filter food by category--improving search precision and making it easier to find certain foods. Easy-to-use instructor's page provides access to course management resources, such as setting up a course, creating course sections, and providing codes for Teaching Assistants. In addition, this new interface allows instructors to assign labs, manage users' submissions, and edit the nutrient list. "Comments" feature allows instructors and students to include feedback when submitting or grading labs and reports. "Resources" tab offers helpful tools for students, including a quick Nutrient Search, Serving Size Tutorial, and the ability to create entries for Custom Food and Recipes. "Serving Sizes" lab added to help users understand how to accurately estimate serving size. Diet Analysis Plus is integrated in all Cengage Learning Introductory Nutrition textbooks through activities in each chapter that show users how the concepts in the chapter relate to their diet and health goals. Use these activities for assignments or extra credit to extend the use of Diet Analysis Plus. The new version of Diet Analysis Plus is only available in an online format. A CD-ROM will not be produced. Additional Features The visual month-to-month calendar enables users to track food intake for up to 365 days and highlights the dates for which users have entered food and activities. The Activity Questionnaire assesses users' true activity level and more accurately determines the proper Dietary Reference Intakes. Customizable reports are available for users to print or email in PDF format. Labs provide critical thinking activities and offer opportunities for users to practice important skills, such as reading a food label, before using Diet Analysis Plus for their diet analysis project. They also can be used as assignments or extra credit to extend the use of Diet Analysis Plus throughout the semester. New "Serving Sizes" lab added. A quick start tutorial provides an audio and video walkthrough of the main features of the program, including setting up a profile, tracking diet, and printing reports like the 3-Day Average report. The improved interface provides easy navigation of Diet Analysis Plus. The homepage offers a single access point to the profile, track diet and activities, reports, and labs. In this enhancement of Diet Analysis Plus, instructors access their course information and assignments through a streamlined homepage making it even easier to manage your course. Featuring over 20,000 foods and updated twice yearly, the extensive database includes common foods, popular brands, regional favorites, international foods, and vegetarian options. Further reference for this edition: Download a for Diet Analysis Plus (10th Edition). About the Author Dr. Michelle "Shelley" McGuire teaches in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Washington State University. She is the author of several published articles, and specializes in the research of understanding of how breastfeeding and lactation influence both maternal and child health and well-being. Recent research has focused on investigating how maternal diet influences milk fat content and, thus, energy intake and fatty acid consumption of the breastfeeding child. Dr. McGuire has been teaching the basic nutrition course for several years and has a strong appreciation of the course, its goals and objectives, and the variety of student needs. This experience coupled with her strong writing and research backgr