- Do you want to understand the importance of nutrition and how it affects human health?
- Are you seeking an online course regarding this?

If this is the case then this package is just what you need. The package here contains a course that has been designed to teach you to understand the importance of nutrition and how it affects human health. It will also give you information about many important principles of nutrition in the context of medicine. This course will certainly help you in getting top-notch information regarding this particular subject.

What is this course and what are the benefits of taking it?

This online course is relevant not only for nursing students, but for all medical and biology undergraduates who want to understand the importance of nutrition and how it affects human health. Originally presented in the fall of 2006, this course will teach you many important principles of nutrition in the context of medicine, including how to assess a patient's dietary status, understanding how diet influences major diseases such as type 2 diabetes, cancer or hypertension, understanding how behaviour and lifestyle affect nutrition, and learning how to evaluate the adequacy of a diet.

Medical professionals and nutritionists should get benefit from the contents of this course.

Table of Contents:

- Nutrition Assessment
- Macronutrients/Carbohydrates
- Lipids/Cardiovascular Disease
- Water Soluble Vitamins
- Diabetes
- Nutrition and Cardiovascular Disease
- Nutrition and the Elderly
- Lipids/Cardiovascular Disease
- Water Soluble Vitamins
- Nutrition and Exercise

Objective of the Course

- Develop a foundation of nutrition knowledge.
- Develop skills to assess the nutritional status of your patients.
- Develop skills to counsel your patients on making lifestyle changes in eating habits to decrease risk of disease and to aid in treatment of disease.

Author Bio

Margo Woods, Joel Mason, Katherine L. Tucker, Kristy Hendricks, Anastassios G. Pittas are the instructors for this course.