HLTH355 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sustainable Diet, Dietitian, Center For Nutrition Policy And Promotion
17 Sep 2018
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Course overview: explore the fundamentals of nutrition, with an emphasis on the potential to reduce disease risk and improve health through eating patterns. Comment from course evaluation in a prior year: what i learned is that nutrition is complicated! Objectives: describe the key principles of a healthy diet in your own words, summarize key elements of dietary guidance in canada and elsewhere and influences on that guidance. Objectives: critically appraise evidence on nutrition and the influence of diet on the health of individuals and the planet, apply the social-ecological model and systems thinking to critically reflect on interventions to promote healthy and sustainable eating patterns. Objectives: communicate clearly on issues of significance to public health and the public nutrition. Course overview: public health nutrition, what is diet, what is a sustainable diet, what influences out eating patterns, how do we support healthy eating, fundamentals of nutrition.
