Students plan and evaluate a program for a specified population. NTR 455 Nutrition, Fitness, and Wellness This course develops the students' understanding of exercise physiology and how food fuels the body and affects athletic performance. Both the principles of exercise physiology and nutrition are integrated to provide the student with an understanding of how optimal fitness is achieved. This course includes a study of the basic principles of nutritional epidemiology, and enables students to understand the strengths and weaknesses of research design for epidemiological studies, to analyze and interpret nutritional epidemiological data, and to define effective and safe food and nutrient recommendations for health promotion and disease prevention. This course builds on the understanding of energy intake, transformation, and liberation.
Students learn to evaluate, create, and implement exercise programs for a variety of populations.
This course builds on NTR 455 with a critical reasoning approach to clinical situations. Students apply an understanding of how nutrition and exercise interact to influence work capacity in children and adults. This course is partially Internet-based. Students meet on site at least five times during the semester. This elective course offers the opportunity to have individual field experience in one of the areas of nutrition.