Nutrition: Health & Disease

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Nutrition: Health & Disease introduces the basic concepts of nutrition, the functions of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water in the body, and the role of diet in health and disease. Health topics include heart disease, obesity, hypertension, diabetes, protein energy malnutrition, disordered eating and food safety. The content material of HSC 253 Nutrition: Health and Disease overlaps with the content of CHM 110 Food Chemistry I, CHM 111 Food Chemistry II and CHM 112 /112L, EPH 360 and BIO 219 Basic Nutrition (USCI Legacy BS 219).