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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3/25/2024 - 6/14/2024

$455

Online

Closed

• SECTION ID:

  180770

• CLASS TYPE:

  Online Asynchronous.
  
  This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
  You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.

• 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 Clinical Practice 4th
  by Katz,Yeh, Levitt, Essel, Joshi, Friedman
  ISBN / ASIN: 9781975161491

  You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.

• POLICIES:

  No refunds after: 3/29/2024.
  

• NOTE:

• DATE & LOCATION:

  3/25/2024 - 6/14/2024
  extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
  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.