Food is Medicine I

Catalog description

This course is the first of a two-semester series exploring the role that diet has on health and wellness and providing graduate students with a framework to provide patients during future clinical practice. Students explore trends in diet utilized in treatment and in health promotion and disease prevention of common disease including cardiovascular disease, diabetes, gastrointestinal disease, cancer and obesity. This course takes an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to bridge knowledge-deficiencies that exist in traditional healthcare. Lecture and laboratory sessions are designed to improve understanding of how nutrition may impact health and wellness in the patients of the future healthcare providers while providing insight into the barriers to following a particular diet plan. The final project for the course sequence is to develop a customized menu to address health requirements of a disease presented in the class.