Nutrition

Catalog description

Nutrition allows students to understand how foods produce energy and supply nutrients to sustain life; how nutrient requirements are determined and fulfilled; consideration of pet animal and equine life stages and lifestyles from the perspective of energy and nutrient requirements; how to provide advice for feeding normal pets for wellness; and how to analyze commercially and home-prepared pet foods for general aspects of deficiency, excess, quality, and sustainability. Course emphasis is nutritional support of hospitalized and critical care patients and the diverse applications of therapeutic dietary management as used to improve clinical outcomes. The course also describes forage analysis, toxic plants, horse feeding, and the nutritional needs of selected species of birds, reptiles, amphibians, and small mammals.