NUTR 202 - Nutrition Through the Life Cycle

• Describe the physiological basis for nutritional needs of normal, healthy humans as they move through life cycle stages: pre-conception, pregnancy, lactation, infancy, toddler and pre-school, child and preadolescent, adolescent, adult, and elderly.
• Describe the conditions that substantially alter/impact nutrition for each life cycle stage (e.g. food allergy, Celiac Disease, iron deficiency anemia, metabolic syndrome, obesity, eating disorders.)
• Assess the quality of diets for the life cycle stages using a variety of tools, including the use of dietary analysis software.
• Design food plans to meet the needs of humans at various life cycle stages.
• Assess nutrition issues/ conditions, and recommend nutrition intervention/ support.
• Describe federal, state and local programs that support nutrition and nutrition education at various life cycle stages.
• Explain the developmental stages of pregnancy, and identify the critical periods where the fetus is most at risk for nutritional deficiency and environmental toxicity.
• Demonstrate the ability to use CDC growth charts to track growth in infancy and childhood, and to identify problems, such as failure to thrive or obesity.
• Evaluate nutrition products for composition, quality, and appropriateness of use (e.g. infant formulas, supplements and specialty foods).
• Engage in advocacy about a course-relevant topic by researching and writing a Letter of Advocacy.
• Demonstrate the ability to use library and/or web-based data for research, analysis and presentation purposes.
• Demonstrate translation of science concepts into language understandable by the common person.

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