Basic Nutrition

Catalog description

The course focuses on nutrition for health. It will help prepare students for eating healthily throughout the lifespan. Students will exit the course being able to (1) describe where the scientific literature pertaining to nutrition comes from, what it is, and how it can aid in discerning fact from fallacy; (2) describe the basics of digestion; (3) describe what carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and fluids are and what foods/ sources they come from; (4) describe how diet can be used to aid in body weight manipulation; (5) understand how environmental and public health issues affect nutrition; and (6) describe the need and function of the above-listed nutrients in health and disease for the general public.