BIOL 2260 - Nutrition

3 Credit(s)

In this course, students will explore the composition, breakdown and utilization of food by the body and how it relates to health and maintenance. As a result of this course, students will gain a deeper understanding of nutritional guidelines, food chemistry, metabolism, supplements, vitamins, minerals and their role in maintaining health, as well as preventing or inducing the disease state. Students will learn to assess and predict the outcome of dietary choices as they relate to health. They will learn to analyze food in light of given boundary criteria for health or nutritional goals. Students will learn to assess dietary and nutritional claims commonly encountered in media and information outlets for their biological and chemical accuracy. Students will gain perspective in placing diets and nutrition in a larger context of medicine, health, agriculture, economics, society and psychology.

General Education Natural sciences general education.
Prerequisite(s): BIOL 1100 or BIOL 1111 with C- or better.