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| CATALOG INFORMATION
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| Discipline and Nbr:
FDNT 61 | Title:
NUTRITION ISSUES |
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| Full Title:
Nutrition Issues |
| Last Reviewed:1/22/2018 |
| Units | Course Hours per Week | | Nbr of Weeks | Course Hours Total |
| Maximum | 1.00 | Lecture Scheduled | 1.00 | 17.5 max. | Lecture Scheduled | 17.50 |
| Minimum | 1.00 | Lab Scheduled | 0 | 6 min. | Lab Scheduled | 0 |
| | Contact DHR | 0 | | Contact DHR | 0 |
| | Contact Total | 1.00 | | Contact Total | 17.50 |
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| | Non-contact DHR | 0 | | Non-contact DHR Total | 0 |
| | Total Out of Class Hours: 35.00 | Total Student Learning Hours: 52.50 | |
Title 5 Category:
AA Degree Applicable
Grading:
Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:
00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
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Formerly:
Catalog Description:
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Current nutrition concepts and controversies. The changing American diet and its relation to longevity and quality of life. Safety and nutrition value of processed foods and government agencies responsible for food safety. A critical evaluation of U.S. dietary goals, health foods, and food advertising.
Prerequisites/Corequisites:
Recommended Preparation:
Eligibility for ENGL 100 or ESL 100
Limits on Enrollment:
Schedule of Classes Information
Description:
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Current nutrition concepts and controversies. The changing American diet and its relation to longevity and quality of life. Safety and nutrition value of processed foods and government agencies responsible for food safety. A critical evaluation of U.S. dietary goals, health foods, and food advertising.
(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:
Recommended:Eligibility for ENGL 100 or ESL 100
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION
| Associate Degree: | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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| CSU GE: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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| IGETC: | Transfer Area | | Effective: | Inactive: |
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| CSU Transfer: | Transferable | Effective: | Fall 1981 | Inactive: | Fall 2022 |
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| UC Transfer: | | Effective: | | Inactive: | |
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Certificate/Major Applicable:
Major Applicable Course
COURSE CONTENT
Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:
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Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Describe how environmental circumstances influence food choices and patterns of eating.
2. Recognize the need for today's citizen to learn about nutrition and assume responsibility for good nutritional choices.
3. Discuss the pros and cons of establishing national dietary guidelines.
4. Explain what types of diets are considered dangerous or useless.
5. Explain effective methods for weight control and obesity prevention.
6. Distinguish the validity or lack thereof of claims made by purveyors of supplements.
7. Discuss the possible roles of diet in the etiology of cancer, and develop a personal strategy to reduce cancer risk.
8. Discuss the dietary guidelines for cancer risk reduction as formulated by the National Cancer Institute.
9. List dietary factors related to coronary heart disease (CHD) and describe diet and lifestyle factors that might reduce CHD risk.
10. Discuss the roles of calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium in hypertension and formulate personal strategies to make practical dietary modifications, if needed.
11. Discuss the pros and cons of "organic" foods.
12. Evaluate individual daily diet according to the Recommended Dietary Allowances and the Senate Dietary Guidelines and formulate personal strategies to make needed modifications.
13. Discuss the benefits and concerns of genetically modified food.
14. Perform research specific to the discipline and use appropriate citation style.
Topics and Scope
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1. Changing American diet
a. Identification
b. Relationships
2. Dietary Goals: a response to the changing American diet
a. Explanation
b. Critical evaluation
c. Practical application with specific foods
3. Fad diets/nutrition fads
a. Definition
b. Evaluation
4. Weight control and obesity
a. Prevention
b. Health risks of popular weight-loss methods
c. Effective methods for weight control
5. Cancer and foods
a. Nutrition and cancer relationships
b. Current recommendations for reducing risk
6. Coronary heart disease and nutrition
a. Concepts
b. Controversies
c. Practical applications
7. Hypertension and nutrition
a. Concepts
b. Controversies
c. Practical applications
8. Organic foods
a. Definition
b. Evaluation
9. Personal nutrition study
a. 3-Day Dietary Intake Record
b. Computer analysis of calories and nutrients
c. Practical application
10. Food safety
a. Causes of food-borne diseases
b. Prevention
c. Pros/cons regarding safety of genetically modified food
11. Introduction to discipline-specific research tools, including seminal books, important periodicals, major indexing sources, professional or trade organizations, standard reference tools, discipline specific tools and major web sites.
Assignments:
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1. Reading chapters and answering assigned questions of approximately 10 pages per week
2. Completing 3-day food record and analysis on computer
3. Written evaluation of 3-day food intake with changes indicated
4. Written report based on Internet search of selected nutrition topic
5. Class presentation
5. Quizzes (2 to 3)
Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.
| Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing. | Writing
20 - 40% |
| Assigned questions; research report | |
| Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills. | Problem Solving
20 - 30% |
| Food record, computer diet analysis | |
| Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams. | Skill Demonstrations
0 - 20% |
| Class presentation | |
| Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams. | Exams
20 - 40% |
| Quizzes: completion, short answer | |
| Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories. | Other Category
0 - 0% |
| None | |
Representative Textbooks and Materials:
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Annual Editions: Nutrition, McGraw Hill/Dushkin) (most current edition, as this is updated annually)
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