{"id":2,"date":"2024-08-14T13:51:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T13:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/highschoolnutrition\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:11:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T19:11:29","slug":"index","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/highschoolnutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition Resources for Tennessee High Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello, Tennessee High School Nutrition Teachers!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PowerPoint notes for\u00a0all Chapters of the <a href=\"https:\/\/mtsu.pressbooks.pub\/nutrition2\/\">I<em>ntroduction to Nutrition and Wellness<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>Pressbook have been updated to the 2nd Edition of the book. The content aligns\u00a0with Tennessee&#8217;s\u00a0State Standards for Nutrition Across the Lifespan\u00a0and coincides with MTSU&#8217;s True Blue Core class,\u00a0Introduction to Nutrition and Wellness.<strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong> (True Blue Core is MTSU&#8217;s general education.) This site includes updated PowerPoint notes, study sheets, teacher answer sheets, plus a variety of activities and assignments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-3e41869c wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-mtsunavy-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/mtsu.pressbooks.pub\/nutrition\/\" style=\"border-radius:5px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Introducing MTSU&#8217;s&nbsp; 2nd Edition of <em>Introduction to Nutrition and Wellness&nbsp;<\/em>Digital Textbook&nbsp;<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After completing the <strong>Nutrition Across the Life Span<\/strong> high school course, students may earn <strong>three hours of college credit<\/strong> by passing the <strong>MTSU Dual Credit Challenge Exam<\/strong>. Successful students receive credit for <strong>NFS 1240: Introduction to Nutrition and Wellness<\/strong>, which fulfills an <strong>MTSU True Blue Core (General Education)<\/strong> requirement and counts toward most degree programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-3e41869c wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-mtsunavy-background-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scientia.global\/cultivating-health-conscious-high-school-students-through-nutrition-education\/\" style=\"border-radius:5px\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read more about our Dual Nutrition Credit options.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you have questions,&nbsp; please contact Janet Colson at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:janet.colson@mtsu.edu?subject=Email%20Address\">Janet.Colson@mtsu.edu<\/a>&nbsp;or call 615-898-2091.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello, Tennessee High School Nutrition Teachers! The PowerPoint notes for\u00a0all Chapters of the Introduction to Nutrition and Wellness Pressbook have been updated to the 2nd Edition of the book. The content aligns\u00a0with Tennessee&#8217;s\u00a0State Standards for Nutrition Across the Lifespan\u00a0and coincides with MTSU&#8217;s True Blue Core class,\u00a0Introduction to Nutrition and Wellness.\u00a0 (True Blue Core is MTSU&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/highschoolnutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/highschoolnutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/highschoolnutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/highschoolnutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/highschoolnutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/highschoolnutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/highschoolnutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mtsu.edu\/highschoolnutrition\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}