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Nutrition Decisions: Eat Smart, Move More provides students with the skills they need to make eating healthy and being active attainable, no matter how busy they are. It goes beyond the facts and provides practical ways students can put their knowledge to work immediately. The text employs the Theory of Planned Behavior to empower students to make positive changes in their lives to improve their health. Special features throughout the text help students navigate some of the controversial issues in nutrition and physical activity, check their own health status, try something new, learn how eating healthy and being physically active can also help the environment, explore how policies and the environment in which they live affects their health, and help them take a small or large step towards eating smart and moving more. Nutrition Decisions is unique in that it challenges students to act to align their eating and physical activity behaviors with what they are learning. It encourages personal health behavior change for a lifetime of good habits and good health. This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to eat better, move more, and achieve and maintain a healthy weight.