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Basic Nutrition Online
Overview
This introductory nutrition course is designed to provide you with a basic nutrition foundation. The course will present fundamentals in macro and micro nutrients, digestion, and metabolism. It will also introduce you to diet assessment and planning skills, and the wide world of nutrition discovery and implications. After completing this course you will be prepared to delve deeper into aspects of nutrition of specific interest to you, as well has have a better understanding of your own nutrition needs.This course in Basic Nutrition should be viewed as an overview, with the opportunity to personally follow-up on issues of interest. We are providing you with a text and web links to a very substantive course that nutrition majors might take a full year to analyze/comprehend. We have omitted a few chapters and minimized a few other chapters while making the text available to you, should you wish to explore the contents. Basic Nutrition Online has a credit value of 3 credit hours.
Who should attend?
Basic Nutrition Online is appropriate for applicants to the SMS Midwifery Education Program, as well as anyone interested in obtaining college credit for an introductory nutrition course.There are no academic prerequisites to this course. Students will need basic skills in typing, computer use, and use of the Internet.
Course Content
At the completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Interpret what the scientific facts tell us about nutrition and health;
- Understand why we eat what we eat;
- Explain the nutrition standards and guidelines;
- Describe the processes of digestion, absorption, and transport;
- Describe the major nutrients, vitamins, and minerals and their roles in the body;
- Understand the concepts of energy balance and weight control;
- Explain the relationship between diet and health;
- Describe the nutritional needs at various stages of the life cycle;
- Understand the basic principles of food safety;
- Recognize the growing problem of hunger in the global economy.
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