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Feb 10, 2025
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HLTH 1070 - Nutrition Credits: 3 Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 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
- Nutrition and eating patterns in society
- Nutrients
- identification
- functions
- recommendations
- guidelines
- Digestive Cycle of Nutrients
- digestion
- absorption
- transport
- elimination
- metabolism
- Nutritional Needs through Lifespan
- Energy Requirements and Healthy Balance
- Nutrition and Disease
- Nutrition Information
- reliability
- labels
- guides/apps/programs
- Personal Nutrition analysis
- Food Safety
- Healthy consumer strategies
Learning Outcomes At the end of this course students will be able to:
- analyze nutrition in society.
- describe digestion, absorption, transport, eliminations, and metabolisms of nutrients.
- identify and describe the function, recommendations and guidelines for nutrients.
- evaluate the reliability of nutrition information.
- track and analyze personal nutrition.
- identify the connection between nutrition and disease.
- identify nutritional needs throughout the lifespan.
- calculate energy requirements and discuss energy balance for health.
- Identify strategies for making healthy choices as a consumer.
- describe consumer concerns related to food safety.
Competency 1 (1-6) None Competency 2 (7-10) None Courses and Registration
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