Food for Life

Food for Life is an advanced course in food and nutrition that addresses the variation in nutritional needs at specific stages of the human life cycle: lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, and adulthood including old age. The most common nutritional concerns, their relationship to food choices and health status and strategies to enhance well-being at each stage of the lifecycle are emphasized.

Food for Life is an advanced course that addresses the variation in nutritional needs at specific stages of the human life cycle: pregnancy, lactation, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, middle adulthood and older adults. Common nutritional concerns, the relationship to food choices and health along with health strategies in the lifecycle are emphasized. This course provides knowledge for real life applications and offers students a pathway into dietetics, culinary arts, food science and other nutrition careers.