Current Concerns in Nutrition

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Principles of nutrition used to evaluate current issues and controversies. Topics include a basic overview of nutrition and nutrients, fad diets, cholesterol, sugar, megavitamins, nutrition labeling, food additives, health foods, nutrition and drug relationships, mass media and nutrition, and dietary fibers. (Not open to students concentrating in foods and nutrition or to students who have completed Home Economics or Health and Nutrition Sciences 4.)