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Dec 26, 2024
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HLTH 1070 - Nutrition Credits: 3 Hours/Week: Lecture NoneLab None Course Description: This course explores the basic principles of nutrition throughout the individual lifecycle. Nutritional choices as they relate to health and wellness will be emphasized. Personal dietary analysis is included in this course. MnTC Goals None
Prerequisite(s): None Corequisite(s): None Recommendation: None
Major Content
- Body weight and body composition
- Consumer nutrition
- Diet and disease
- Digestion
- Food planning guides
- Label reading
- Life cycle nutrition
- Minerals use in the body
- Nutrition and eating patterns in society
- Personal diet planning and analysis
- Vitamin use in the body
- Water and electrolytes
Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to:
- Identify life cycle nutritional needs.
- Analyze healthy body composition as it relates to nutrition.
- Identify food guides for diet planning and evaluation.
- Describe the digestive system.
- Identify nutrient contributions to health.
- Outline healthy consumer choices.
- Analyze personal diets.
- Analyze nutrition in society.
- Describe nutrition labeling.
- Identify the connection between nutrition and disease.
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