Discuss the dietary requirements of vitamins, minerals, and water and the roles that they play in human nutrition. Recognize that diet planning guides utilizing the concept of food groups can be helpful in planning for nutrient needs throughout the life cycle by planning menus for various age groups. Appreciate the relationships between adequate nutrient intake and good health. Explain how an individual's socio-cultural influences, emotional development, and family background will affect food behavior and food choices through life. Course Introduction This course is an introductory level nutrition course designed to provide the student with an overview of normal nutrition and its relationship to health and physical fitness.
Emphasis is placed on the scientific, physiological, social, and economic aspects of nutrition.
Course Benefits to the Student Most health professionals agree that a person's diet and nutritional status influence health. However, everywhere we look, we are confronted with confusing and conflicting information about what we should or should not eat. So much nutritional misinformation is spread through quackery and lay publications that many people have trouble deciphering the truth from fiction. This course is designed to introduce the basic, scientific concepts of nutrition on which nutritionists and other health professionals agree. After you, the student, understand these concepts, you should be able to make educated decisions on this controversial and conflicting nutritional information to which we are constantly exposed.