Lifecycle Nutrition

Catalog description

This course is designed to build on the basic principles of nutrition and explores nutrition through each major life stage including, but not limited to, pre-pregnancy, pregnancy, infancy, early childhood, childhood, adolescence/teenage years, adulthood, and older adulthood. During this course, students will apply basic nutrition knowledge to evaluate the rationale for nutritional needs of normal growth and development, eating habits, and dietary cautions for each life stage. Consequences of under-or over-nutrition at critical life stages and policies, programs, and interventions that have been implemented to address these consequences will also be examined. The role of the social determinants of health and other lifestyle factors in meeting suggested nutritional requirements and guidelines at various life stages will also be discussed.