CHS 265: Nutrition through life cycle

Course Description

Learning nutrition feeding styles during the different stages of human growth and daily nutritional requirements, and the physiological changes in each stage from gestation period until elderly 

Course Objectives:

By the end of this course, students should be able to:

• Identify and describe the nutritional needs of persons in the various life-cycle stages i.e. pregnant, lactating, infants, toddler, and childhood, adult and elderly.
• Illustrate the dietary intake of Calories & nutrients needs using appropriate methodologies for specified circumstances.
• Identify the changes in dietary intake standards based on the physiological state of each stage during the life cycle.
• Recognize the nutrition principles to plan one day meal menu for a healthy individual in each life stage.