SPHU 3200 Nutrition and Chronic Disease

SPHU 3200 Nutrition and Chronic Disease
Nutrition and Chronic Disease
This course will provide students the opportunity to explore the complex relationships between diet, obesity and chronic disease outcomes particularly cardiovascular disease and cancer. The emphasis of the course will be through case studies and through the shared experience of experts in various areas. The course will focus on the causal pathway from diet and inactivity to obesity to negative chronic outcomes with over-nutrition being the pivotal mechanism to disease.
credit hours: 3