Nutrition Across the Lifespan

Catalog description

This course provides students with a strong focus on culinary nutrition for disease states, prevention and wellness throughout the lifespan. Students will prepare and evaluate meals in the culinary lab for various life stages, including preconception; pregnancy; lactation; infancy; toddler and preschooler; child and preadolescence; adolescence; adult; and older adult. Students will gain culinary skills and knowledge related to creating and implementing appropriate dietary interventions for prevention and treatment of nutritionally relevant conditions throughout each stage of the lifecycle.