First Year Courses
Nutrition in Health and Disease
Nutrition in Health and Disease The course is an overview of contemporary and clinically relevant nutrition. The topics are those relevant for first year students and explore a variety of basic areas. The basics of nutrition are emphasized and include: Nutritional requirements, macro and micronutrients, nutrition through the life cycle- pregnancy, lactation, childhood nutrition. Nutritional assessment is introduced in a pre-clinical format. Clinically relevant topics are also emphasized especially those that are commonly seen in a busy practice or those associated with major morbidity. The content areas include- obesity, nutrition and coronary heart disease and the important role of nutrition in critical illness. This course meets five days per week for four weeks of the quarter for 50-minute lectures and uses food diaries and multiple choice exams for assessment.
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