Nutrition and Disease: 3 semester hours

Catalog description

This course covers issues in public health related to how nutrition is used for chronic disease prevention. The process of effectively and efficiently identifying, reading, and synthesizing existing sources of reliable information on particular diet disease associations will be covered extensively as will applying this knowledge in a public health context. We will focus on the relation of nutrition to obesity, diabetes, coronary heart disease, hypertension, cancer, addiction-related health problems, mental illness, food-borne and water-borne diseases, and selected additional health outcomes of public health significance in the U.S. Prerequisites: PHLT 2351 .