iii About the Author Carol Byrd-Bredbenner, PhD, RDN, FAND, is a nationally recognized author and nutrition educator. Carol received her degrees in Home Economics Education and Nutrition from Florida State University and Pennsylvania State University. She is a registered dietitian and a member of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly American Dietetic Association), and Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior. In addition to being the author of Adventures in Food and Nutrition, Carol has written several classroom nutrition education and food safety curriculum guides and teaching kits for preschool, elementary, middle school, and high school students. She also writes nutrition education computer software, a college-level textbook, and has contributed nutrition articles to various family and consumer sciences publications as well as the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior and the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. She is actively involved in designing new methods to teach people of all ages how to improve their diets and health. Carol has extensive teaching experience at both the secondary and university levels. As an active lecturer and consultant, she frequently conducts workshops for family and consumer sciences teachers and dietitians. She has made nutrition education presentations at national meetings of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (formerly American Dietetic Association), and International Congress of Nutrition. She has served as the Director of the Nutrition Information and Resource Center at Pennsylvania State University. Currently, she is a nutrition teacher and researcher at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. For her expertise and significant contributions to the field of nutrition education, she has been named a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She also has received the Outstanding Nutrition Educator award from the Society of Nutrition Education and Behavior, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, American Society for Nutrition, and US Department of Agriculture.