1Recognize the "fundamentals of nutrition".

2Discuss substances in foods needed in adequate amounts for energy, growth, reproduction and health and explain the identity, acquisition, utilization, and excretion of nutrients.

3Explain the science of nutrition which includes the action, interaction, and balance of food, nutrients and other substances within food in relation to health and disease.

4Describe nutrient ingestion, digestion, absorption, transport, metabolism, interaction, storage, and excretion.

5Show appropriate diet selection under different circumstances such as: different states of the life cycle, disease states, and in the prevention of chronic diseases.

6Develop the groundwork for future courses where information learned in this course will be applied to the design of diet therapies or diet prescriptions, design of diet recommendations for general audiences, selection of our own diets, and understanding the mechanisms of action and interactions of nutrients.