# NUTRI 300: Nutrition

- By: Rose Giordano
- Publisher: Folsom Lake College
- Source: [LibreTexts](https://med.libretexts.org/Courses/Folsom_Lake_College/NUTRI_300%3A_Nutrition_(Giordano))
- Licence: CC BY-NC-SA
- Read at LibreTexts: https://med.libretexts.org/Courses/Folsom_Lake_College/NUTRI_300%3A_Nutrition_(Giordano)
- PDF: https://downloads.libretexts.org/api/v1/download/med-14768/pdf

This course examines nutrition as a science and the chemical properties of nutrients in foods, the sources and functions of the nutrients in all stages of the life cycle, as well as nutrition as a world problem, and consumer problems related to food. Topics emphasized include nutrient metabolism, weight loss, sports nutrition, food safety, the diet-disease relationship, global nutrition and analysis of special nutritional requirements from the prenatal period through the geriatric years.