NS-210 Nutrition in the Life Cycle
This course stresses the practical application of the various nutritional concepts from pregnancy and birth throughout the life span into old age (pregnancy, infancy, children, adolescents, adults, and elderly adults). Strategies for handling nutrition related problems, obesity issues, eating disorders, the use of nutritional supplements, sports nutrition, gender differences, physical activity, growth, food guides and standards and label reading are among the subjects investigated. This course carries SUNY General Education Natural Sciences (and Scientific Reasoning) credit.
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Course Outline
Department
Health Science and Human Performance
Course Description
This course stresses the practical application of the various nutritional concepts from pregnancy and birth throughout the life span into old age (pregnancy, infancy, children, adolescents, adults, and elderly adults). Strategies for handling nutrition related problems, obesity issues, eating disorders, the use of nutritional supplements, sports nutrition, gender differences, physical activity, growth, food guides and standards and label reading are among the subjects investigated. This course carries SUNY General Education Natural Sciences (and Scientific Reasoning) credit.
Credit Hours
3Semester(s) Course Will Be Offered
Fall, Spring
SUNY General Education Course
- Natural Science and Scientific Reasoning
Course Learning Outcomes
- Analyze why an individual's nutrient needs change during each stage of the life cycle
- Identify nutritional risk factors that may lead to chronic disease at various stages of the life cycle
- Apply appropriate nutritional interventions for a variety of diseases/disorders that can occur throughout a person's life cycle
- Create appropriate nutritional plans for the different phases of a person's life cycle based on current nutritional guidelines
Topic Outline
- 1. Nutrition basics
- a. Functions of macronutrients
- b. Functions of micronutrients
- 2. Conception and pregnancy
- a. Nutrition for optimizing successful conception
- b. Nutrition during pregnancy
- i. Vitamin usage for healthy fetal development
- ii. Use of nutrient-dense foods for healthy fetal development
- iii. Consequences of poor nutrition on fetal and maternal health
- c. Nutrition during lactation
- i. Initial maternal nutritional choices and their impact on infant development
- ii. Maternal nutritional requirements during breastfeeding
- 3. Lifespan development
- a. Infant nutrition
- i. Introduction of foods for healthy development
- ii. Parent-feeding to self-feeding transitions
- b. Toddler and preschool nutrition
- i. Teaching good nutritional choices at a developmentally appropriate level
- ii. Continued proper nutrition for appropriate neurological and physical growth
- c. Child and preadolescent nutrition
- i. Learning how to foster lifelong good nutrition habits
- ii. Continued proper nutrition for appropriate neurological and physical growth
- iii. Exploring obesity's connection to nutritional choices
- iv. Examining eating disorders in this age group
- v. Examining child autonomy and nutritional needs
- d. Adolescent nutrition
- i. Examining eating disorders in this age group
- ii. Continued proper nutrition for appropriate neurological and physical growth
- iii. Transition to autonomous food planning and preparation
- iv. Exploring obesity's connection to nutritional choices
- v. Examining nutritional needs for specific activities, such as sports
- e. Adult nutrition
- i. Exploring obesity's connection to nutritional choices
- ii. Nutrition for maintaining health and delaying disease
- iii. Exploring nutritional choices as a contribution to quality of life
- iv. Objectively understanding information sources on nutritional advice
- f. Nutrition and older adults
- i. Exploring obesity's connection to nutritional choices
- ii. Nutrition for maintaining health and delaying disease
- iii. Exploring nutritional choices as a contribution to quality of life
- iv. Objectively understanding information sources on nutritional advice