HLTH 220 — Fundamentals of Nutrition (3 Credits, Fall/Spring/Summer)
This course is designed to provide a broad understanding of the scientific principles of nutrition. Students will learn the process by which the human body ingests, digests, absorbs, transports, and converts the food we eat into usable energy; and its relation to health and disease. Throughout the course, students will be exposed to cutting-edge research informing today's food conversations both in theory and in practice. Lectures, readings, activities, and discussions are designed to challenge students to examine their belief systems about what they eat, think critically about their own choices, and develop a solid scientific foundation for understanding the claims about nutrition that appear in print and the media and why what we eat matters. (This CWI course meets Idaho State Board of Education GEM competency requirements for GEM 4 - Scientific Ways of Knowing.) . (3 lecture hours, 0 lab hours, 3 credits)