ES 245 - Nutrition for Health, Fitness, and Sport

This course is a foundation course in nutrition and is intended for all exercise science students. It lays a conceptual framework of nutrition principles on which future formal and informal education is based. This course has been designed to enable students to critique their nutritional intake and to distinguish valid nutritional information. The course covers terminology, nutrients, dietary guidelines, energy expenditure, food labels, weight management, eating disorders, lifecycle nutrition and disease management and prevention.

Prerequisite(s): ES 190 - Introduction to Exercise Science or concurrent enrollment in ES 190 - Introduction to Exercise Science AND Exercise Science major.
Credits: 3
NOTE:
* The Exercise Science Course Fee applies to this course.