This course is designed as a foundational course in micronutrient nutrition. The course will focus on specific vitamin and mineral functions, requirements and factors that influence them, methods for assessing vitamin status in individuals and populations, and the health consequences of deficiency or excess. The clinical and public health implications of micronutrient nutrition will be emphasized.

Mainly for candidates for the Master of Science degree who do not write a thesis. Original research expected. Two bound copies of a written report of the study required by the department. Credit, 3-6.

Metabolism of nutrients and dietary constituents and its integration into biochemical mechanisms. Critical reviews, evaluations and discussions of current research papers involving topics of nutrient metabolism and biochemistry relevant to human health and metabolic disorders.

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Physiological and metabolic bases for nutritional care and the application of this knowledge to the treatment of specific diseases. Topics include: surgery, burns, infections, cancer, liver diseases, renal failure, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and alternative modes of feeding. Also includes application of nutrition knowledge to specific diseases and problems encountered in the practice of clinical dietetics (medical nutrition therapy).

This class is designed to help you reflect and integrate what you have learned from your nutrition coursework as well as that from your Gen Ed courses and other experiences that have contributed to your development on the way to your final year at UMass. The goal of this course is for students to develop insight into the epidemiologic, physiologic, biochemical and nutritional complexities of major diet-related diseases in the United States. It satisfies the Integrated Experience requirement for BS-Nutrition majors.

This course is designed to build skills and techniques required to effectively plan, implement and evaluate nutrition education in diverse communities. This course is also a Service Learning course, and as such provides an opportunity for students to apply nutrition knowledge through team-based projects, in collaboration with community partners.

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