Loredana Quadro, Ph. D.

Food and Health (11:400:104, undergraduate, 3 credits). This course is designed to elucidate the link between nutrition and health. Lectures provide students with a basic understanding of the biochemistry of food components, their functions in the human body throughout the life cycle and of the diseases in which nutrition plays a crucial role. The basics of food processing, food labeling and dietary guidelines for optimal health are also be outlined. The goal of this course is to enable students to take a critical look at what they eat and give them a new perspective on how food affects the health of their body. This course fits the natural interest of the students in their body, their health, their weight and their success in sports.