Women's Wellness: From Food and Nutrition to Reproductive Health and Aging

Catalog description

An understanding of the impact and role of food, nutrition and one's lifelong dietary and lifestyle patterns is essential to positively impact and optimize the health and well-being of women across the lifespan. In this course, students will be immersed in learning about the importance of these factors on an array of women's wellness topics that range from fad diets, weight management and dietary supplements to reproductive health, healthy aging, female athlete concerns, and mental well-being, stress/anxiety. This course is intended for undergraduate students of all majors, class rank and gender. Counts as a Full-Semester Wellness/Non-movement course. Counts as a Human Diversity & Commonality course.