NUTRACEUTICALS FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

NUTRSCI 100

Overview of career paths related to human nutrition, a multidisciplinary domain that explores the complex relationship between dietary intake and health, encompassing diverse areas from scientific research, healthcare, education, product development, to policy and intervention.

NUTRSCI 550

Presents foundational principles and evidenced based recommendations for fueling active bodies and how proper nutrition relates to weight management, muscle development, recovery and performance. Integrates counseling methods and techniques used for working with active populations through readings, learning activities and expert guest lecturers. Features reading and interpreting scientific studies related to sports nutrition and interdisciplinary guest speakers representing sport performance and wellness programs.

NUTRSCI/POPHLTH 621

Techniques used to evaluate relationships of diet to health and disease in human populations; integration of knowledge gained with results of animal and clinical studies toward understanding dietary risk or protective factors for disease. Includes advanced diet assessment and basic epidemiologic approaches.

NUTRSCI 750

Integration of foundational nutrition and exercise physiology principles with sports nutrition concepts from a clinical perspective. Evaluation of the unique nutritional requirements for athletes/active individuals on body composition, performance, and timing of nutrients and hydration related to pre-activity, during activity, and post-activity recovery. Application of these concepts with clinical conditions requiring specialized sports nutrition approaches such as diabetes, gastrointestinal disorders, eating disorders, micronutrients deficiencies and life cycle populations (youth/adolescent, pregnant and masters' athletes). Analysis of sports nutrition research to utilize evidenced-based practice and recommendations around ergogenic aids/supplements and other sports nutrition topics.

NUTRSCI 618

Exploration of current challenges and research approaches related to the progress of nutritional sciences in the era of precision nutrition. Topics include limitations of population-based approaches to establishing dietary guidelines, hurdles to developing biomarkers for determining individual nutritional status, the impact of genetics, epigenetics, the microbiome, diet interactions, and other factors on nutritional and metabolic variability among people, and the ways in which precision nutrition can revolutionize how nutrition recommendations are devised and delivered to the public.