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Graduate Catalog 2020-2021 
    
Graduate Catalog 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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MPH 575 - Nutrition Concepts


This course provides students with an understanding of the basic nutrition principles to help promote and maintain health throughout a life cycle. Throughout the semester, students learn the basic components of foods-macro- and micro-nutrients, their relationship to diet and disease and weight. Nutritional needs through the life cycle are discussed with the primary disease states associated with each age group. Issues, such as food supplementation, factory farming, genetically modified foods, the impact on the environment, and dieting are discussed. Odd Summer

3 Credits.



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