Foundations of Nutrition II: Diet and Disease

This is a three-unit asynchronous online nutrition course that explores the relationship between diet and disease. The course is designed for current and future healthcare professionals.

Over the ten-week length of the course, students will study evidence-based nutrition guidelines in the following areas of wellness and disease:

• Nutrition screening, assessment, counseling and nutritional genomics
• Nutrition support (tube feeding and total parenteral nutrition), hospital and modified diets and food-drug interactions
• Nutrient digestion, the human microbiome and disorders of the gastrointestinal tract
• Hypertension and heart disease
• Diabetes and prediabetes
• Energy balance, weight management, overweight and obesity and metabolic syndrome
• Energy metabolism, inborn errors of metabolism, metabolic stress and respiratory disorders
• Liver and kidney disease
• Cancer and HIV/AIDS

The course is taught by a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) and Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE).

Other Credits: BRN/RD: 30 CE hrs. BRN does not award partial credits

Note: This course was formerly called Nutrition Therapy for Healthcare Professionals. It is recommended that this course is taken after Foundations of Nutrition I: Introduction to Nutrition Science

Course Number: BIOL-40321
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Integrative Nutrition

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9/23/2019 - 12/14/2019

$375

Online

Closed

• SECTION ID:

  141733

• CLASS TYPE:

  Online, Web-based instruction

• INSTRUCTOR:
  

  Ferraro, Katie, Registered Dietitian (RD) and a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) with a Masters in Public Health and is a consultant dietitian in San Diego.

  Katie Ferraro is a registered dietitian (RD) and a certified diabetes educator (CDE) with a master's in Public Health. She completed her undergraduate work at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, TX and her graduate studies at UC Berkeley. She currently works as a consultant dietitian here in San Diego.

• TEXTBOOKS:

  REQUIRED

  Nutrition in Clinical Practice 3rd
  by Katz/Friedman/Lucan
  ISBN / ASIN: 9781451186642

  You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

• POLICIES:

  No refunds after: 9/30/2019.
  

• NOTE:

• DATE & LOCATION:

  9/23/2019 - 12/14/2019
  ucsdextension.blackboard.com
  You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.