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Perspectives in Nutrition, 5/e
Gordon M. Wardlaw, Ohio State University
Margaret W. Kessel, Ohio State University


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Computerized Test Bank

Instructors who adopt the text may receive MicroTest, a computerized test bank package compatible with IBM and Macintosh microcomputers. This test-generation software combines a number of user-friendly aids, enabling the instructor to select, edit, delete, or add questions and construct and print tests and answer keys. ISBN: 0-07-228788-8

FoodWise 2.0

This dietary analysis software offers a variety of functions based on the latest release of the USDA database. It features a user-friendly interface and contains more than 7,500 foods. It generates a wide range of standard, easy-to-grade reports and allows the user to add their own foods to the database. Version 2.0 is Macintosh and Windows compatible. ISBN: 0-07-243775-8

PowerWeb Nutrition

Add the Internet to your course with PowerWeb! PowerWeb: Nutrition provides students with current articles from Annual Editions, curriculum-based materials, weekly updates with assessment, informative and timely world news, refereed Web links, research tools, student study tools, and interactive exercises. Preview the site at www.dushkin.com/powerweb. ISBN: 0-07-244653-6

Visual Resource Library for Nutrition 2002

Available to qualified adopters, this CD-ROM contains key illustrations from the text. The VRL also includes a book specific PowerPoint presentation. Illustrations and the PowerPoint can also be printed full size for use as acetates and may be exported for use with other programs and applications, such as the computerized test bank. ISBN: 0-07-243772-3

Transparency Acetates for Nutrition 2002

Text adopters may receive two hundred full-color transparency acetates. They feature key illustrations from Perspectives in Nutrition, as well as other McGraw-Hill Nutrition texts, with large, easy-to-read labels. ISBN: 0-07-228809-4

Online Learning Center

This site contains a variety of text and web resources correlated to Perspectives in Nutrition. As students read text chapters, they can access additional study support such as online quizzes, learning objectives, and web links directly related to the material being covered in that weeks class. Instructor resources include an Online Visual Resource Library and a correlation of all instructor supplements to the appropriate chapter. McGraw-Hill's online content can be delivered through WebCT and Blackboard.

PageOut! Course Website Development Program

PageOut enables you to develop a website for your course. This program is now available FREE to registered adopters of McGraw-Hill textbooks. Each course website includes:
  • A course home page,
  • An instructor home page,
  • A syllabus (interactive, customizable, and includes quizzing, instructor notes, and links to the Online Learning Center)
  • Web links
  • Discussions (multiple discussion areas per class)
  • An online grade boo
  • Student web pages
  • Design templates.

Nutrition Home Page (www.mhhe.com/nutrition)

This web site has been designed to be a resource to students and instructors. The three key sections are:

1) Nutrition analysis

  • FoodWorks information with nutrient data sites, suggested student activities, Frequently Asked Questions, a PowerPoint Walkthrough and links to The Nutrition Company the developer of the software
  • Links to 411 for Nutrition, Recipes, Dietary Myths, Nutrition for the Physically Active, A Body of Evidence, BMI Calculator, Phytochemicals, Vitamins for the Future, Food Sources of Nutrients, Glossary, Food Labels, Healthy People 2010 and Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2000.

2) NutriNews

  • Links to Innovations a nutrition newsletter published by McGraw-Hill with Novartis addressing nutrition issues.
  • Links to Business Week Online articles on nutrition.
  • Other nutrition articles.

3) NutriLinks: This list was developed as a convenient resource for students and instructors. We hope it will:

  • Help you stay current.
  • Develop web search skills.
  • Provide you with quick access to information that can be used in research papers.
  • Provide you with easy access to topics of general interest.

Innovations: Nutrition Applications and Updates

Innovations is a newsletter devoted to nutrition education and is jointly sponsored by Novartis Nutrition and McGraw-Hill and will be published twice yearly. It provides current information on topics that will appeal to anyone interested in nutrition and health. Available free of charge to adopters of McGraw-Hill textbooks. ISBN: 0-07-244348-0

Issues in Nutrition: Obesity and Weight Control Video Tape

This video explores obesity and weight control, including the concept of energy balance and the importance of physical activity in the energy balance equation, body mass index, and safe vs. unsafe diets. Commenting on these issues are experts in their field: Kelly Brownell, Professor of Psychology and Director, Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders; Jack H. Wilmore, Professor of Science, University of Texas at Austin; Steven Blair, Director of Epidemiology, Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas; and Susan Yanovski, Director, Obesity and Eating Disorders Program. Running time: 10 min. 34 sec. ISBN: 0-07-290692-8

Issues in Nutrition: Eating Disorders Video Tape

This video looks at three types of eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia, and compulsive overeating. Professionals define and discuss each of these eating disorders, and three people who have been in treatment for an eating disorder discuss their experiences. The professionals in this video include Dr. Arnold Anderson, Director of the Eating Disorders Inpatient Unit, University of Iowa; Dr. Janet David, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy Center for the Study of Anorexia and Bulimia; and Becky Zimmerman, Registered Dietician. Running time: 11 min. 29 sec. ISBN: 0-07-290693-6

Annual Edition Nutrition

This publication contains an assortment of previously published, contemporary articles on many topics such as nutrition through the life span, food safety, fat and weight control, health claims, and hunger and global issues. Due 01/02 ISBN: 0-07-243305-1

Daily Fitness and Nutrition Journal

This logbook helps students to track their diet and exercise program. Students don't always have access to a computer and this booklet provides the diary that helps them to log their behaviors. ISBN: 0-07-253055-3