Human Nutrition

Catalog description

Three lecture. Principles of nutrition in critical periods throughout the life cycle and the essentials for the nutritional care of clients suffering from various diseases. Students will be able to: utilize a nutritional intake assessment inventory; identify the importance of sound nutritional habits and the role-modeling thereof; analyze the interrelationships between nutrients and human nutrition; apply nutritional concepts to various periods of the life cycle; identify special health problems that are influenced positively and negatively by an individual’s food intake; identify specific diseases and the special diets that contribute to their management; and evaluate a client’s current nutritional information for therapeutic usefulness.