HL ED 180 - Food and Health

Credits: 3
Explores diet and its relationship to the health and vitality of the individual. Provides practical information necessary for evaluating nutritional needs, obtaining essential nutrients, gaining strategies for improving dietary intake, practicing food safety, and understanding food labeling. Also focuses on diet and weight control, body image, and eating disorders, along with diet and disease.

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Demonstrate an enhanced awareness of the relationship between food and health.
Understand the recommended intake and function of specific nutrients such as carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals and water.
Define how nutrition impacts weight status, eating disorders, body image, and lifestyle risk factors for chronic disease such as diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and cancer.
Identify lifestyle risk factors for chronic disease such as osteoporosis, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer.
Develop strategies to reduce their risk of chronic disease such as osteoporosis, diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
Track and analyze their dietary intake.
Evaluate their personal health.

Program Outcomes

Participate in academic and physical activities that address various goals of Healthy People 2020. Goals include physical activity, nutrition and weight status, diabetes, heart disease and stroke, and cancer.
Apply training principles or rules of the sport in fitness- and skill-related classes.
Identify and/or practice lifetime health and fitness skills that reduce risk of chronic disease and improve or maintain fitness and skill.

College-wide Outcomes

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.
Responsibility - Responsibility encompasses those behaviors and dispositions necessary for students to be effective members of a community. This outcome is designed to help students recognize the value of a commitment to those responsibilities which will enable them to work successfully individually and with others.