ODSC 511V Nutrition
This course provides the student with a basic understanding of nutrition and its context in lifestyle. They will become familiar with the role of nutrition in health and disease, as well as dietary reference intakes (DRI), energy requirements, metabolism, and acceptable macronutrient distribution ranges. Other topics include the essential chemical structure, biochemistry, and metabolic functions of the macro- and micro-nutrients as well as some important non-nutrient components of foods, regulation of gene expression by specific nutrients, drug-nutrient interactions, nutritional immunology, food allergy, brief review of impact of nutrition of oral health, and assessment of methods of nutritional status.
Offered
Fall.