HLTH 1070 - Nutrition

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab None
Course Description: How do your personal nutritional choices relate to your personal health and wellness? This course introduces the principles of nutrition, including required nutrients, calorie requirements throughout the lifespan, and food safety. Topics include personal dietary analysis as well as healthy consumer strategies that lead to health and wellness.
MnTC Goals
None

Prerequisite(s): None
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: None

Major Content

1. Nutrition and eating patterns in society
2. Nutrients
   1. identification
   2. functions
   3. recommendations
   4. guidelines
3. Digestive Cycle of Nutrients
   1. digestion
   2. absorption
   3. transport
   4. elimination
   5. metabolism
4. Nutritional Needs through Lifespan
5. Energy Requirements and Healthy Balance
6. Nutrition and Disease
7. Nutrition Information
   1. reliability
   2. labels
   3. guides/apps/programs
8. Personal Nutrition analysis

  9. Food Safety

10. Healthy consumer strategies

a. menu planning based on healthy eating goals, nutritional needs and personal nutrition analysis.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, students will be able to:

1. Analyze nutrition in society.
2. Describe digestion, absorption, transport, eliminations, and metabolisms of nutrients.
3. Identify and describe the function, recommendations and guidelines for nutrients.
4. Evaluate the reliability of nutrition information.
5. Track and analyze personal nutrition.
6. Identify the connection between nutrition and disease.
7. Identify nutritional needs throughout the lifespan.
8. Calculate energy requirements and discuss energy balance for health.
9. Identify strategies for making healthy choices as a consumer, including menu planning.
10. Describe consumer concerns related to food safety.

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