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222.661.01
Designing Healthy Diets

Location
East Baltimore
Term
4th Term
Department
International Health
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2018 - 2019
Instruction Method
TBD
Class Time(s)
Tuesday, 1:30 - 2:20pm
Lab Times
Friday, 10:00 - 11:50am (01)
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
Contact Name
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Prerequisite

Principles of Human Nutrition (222.641), Assessment of Nutritional Status (222.642), or Nutritional Epidemiology (222.647) or equivalent classes elsewhere.

Description
Examines the factors influencing dietary patterns and food choices in the U.S. and internationally. Focuses on modifying recipes, calculation of nutritional information for foods and recipes, and on planning, analyzing and evaluating dietary choices and patterns using the Nutrition Data System for Research (NDSR) software program and food composition tables, so that they meet guidelines for overall health and wellbeing.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Translate dietary recommendations into daily food choices to meet guidelines for healthy living in a public health setting
  2. Use the NDSR software program and food composition tables to modify recipes, calculate nutritional information for foods and recipes, and plan, analyze and evaluate dietary choices and patterns
  3. Explain the underlying principles for costing and scaling-up of recipes for volume food production
Special Comments

Labs have changed from Thursday afternoon to Fridays 10a-12p. They will be held in a computer lab.