After completing this course, you should be able to

  1. discuss human nutrition for healthy adults.
  2. discuss the role of diet in causing and preventing various diseases, particularly chronic diseases.
  3. describe methods used to assess nutrition status.
  4. explain how dietary recommendations are formulated.
  5. describe the methods used to carry out nutrition research.
  6. distinguish sound nutritional information from unreliable nutritional information.
  7. describe a healthy diet and food choices, and explain why such choices will help prevent health problems.