Nutrition: Science and Everyday Application
This book is quite comprehensive in its coverage of basic nutrition topics. The table of contents is very user-friendly and appropriately detailed and there is an option to 'search in book,' if you are looking for a specific term.
The content in this book appears to be accurate, error-free and unbiased.
The content is very up-to-date. One of the first things I noticed was the section called 'Updates Made to OER,' which provides a table describing the important updates made 8 months ago due to the chance in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Additionally, there is a 'Note to Educators' in the Introduction that mentions that an instructor will be notified if there are any updates. The way the book is arranged, in small sections, makes me believe updates should be fairly easy to integrate.
This textbook was written very clearly for a college-aged audience with a basic science background. Keywords are provided in bold type and then defined either before or after.
The book was very consistent in terms of formatting. Each unit started with an introduction of that particular topic and then flowed through topics, typically from basic to more specific. I will say that I felt the chapters in the macronutrient units could have been arranged a bit more consistently between carbohydrates, lipids and protein.
There are 11 units, which easily could be arranged as 1 unit per week of class in a semester. Also - the text is easy on the eyes in that it is broken up nicely with headings, pictures and videos.
The topics in this textbook are presented in a way that makes sense as you move through important basic topics of nutritional science.
Navigation was seamless and smooth.
I did not come across any grammatical errors.
The text does not seem to have any culturally insensitive or offensive material. The pictures provided throughout the textbook represented many different races and ethnicities.
This was a very enjoyable textbook to navigate. The integration of videos truly plays to a new generation of tech-savvy students as well as to various learning styles. It would be nice if the authors could think about creating a follow-up textbook that covered nutritional science in various conditions and disease states.