20122 Nutrition 1
Credits: 3 introductory credits in Natural Sciences - General
Prerequisites: none
Recommended: General Biology I, General Biology II
The course is based on Nutrition: Food for Thought, by I. Zilber-Rosenberg (The Open University, 1996) and supplements (2006).
Nutrition is a field which combines theoretical subject matter with knowledge that can be applied in daily life. Students are acquainted with the influence of nutrition, as a dynamic environmental factor, on processes that take place in the human body. The course enables students to gain in depth acquaintance with nutrients (principal food components) and an understanding of the considerations on which the nutritional recommendations are based. It includes up-to-date information on processes related to eating in humans, on factors affecting weight gain, how nutrition research is put into practice, and how our food will look in the not-so-distant future.
Topics: A look at nutrition; Nutrients and the human body; Metabolism; Recommended diet for the healthy individual; Nutrition and diseases; Research methods in nutrition; Subjects in food technology.
1Beginning in Fall 2006, students will only get credits in Natural Sciences - General for this course, and not in Life Sciences. As a result, the credits will not count among the 72 credits in Life Sciences required for a degree in the Life Sciences.