Nutrition for Life

Essentials of nutrition as they relate to diet, health and disease, risk-reduction, stress, and nutritional deficiencies. Topics include: developments and discoveries in the field of nutrition, nutrients essential for human health, disease consequence and prevention, eating disorders, obesity, dieting, nutritional fads and fallacies, vitamins and supplements, and changing nutritional needs across the lifespan. Use of sound consumer nutritional information in the development of an individual health plan. Transfer: CSU; UC