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): Must be an Exercise Science or Health Science major and have a grade of ‘D’ or higher in ES 190 - Introduction to Exercise Science or HLTH 255 - Introduction to Community and Public Health.
Credit(s): 3
Missouri Higher Education Core Curriculum Transfer (CORE 42) Course Number: MOTR LIFS 150L - Nutrition for Health, Fitness and Sport
(For additional information: https://dhe.mo.gov/core42.php)