Scientific American Nutrition for a Changing World

Updated with the Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2020-2025, Nutrition for a Changing World, Second Edition is now available in Macmillan Learning’s breakthrough online platform, Achieve—a comprehensive set of interconnected teaching and assessment tools co-designed with instructors and students using a foundation of learning research and rigorous testing.

Written and illustrated in the style of Scientific American magazine, Nutrition for a Changing World engages students like no other nutrition textbook. Chapters focus on real stories—about real people and real science—bringing context and relevance to the core science. Infographics serve as “science storyboards,” guiding students step by step through essential processes and concepts. Coverage of timely topics—gluten-free diets, the diabetes epidemic, global nutrition—exemplify the book’s contemporary approach to nutrition science.

Nutrition for Changing World is also the only product for the course to offer AnalyzeMyDiet, a diet tracker with personalized, auto-graded diet analysis activities, freeing instructors from hand-grading these projects.