Assignment: Nutrition Paper
Instructions
To complete this orientations assignment, you will write a very short paragraph describing how you will use what you learn in this course in your professional life as well as personal life.
The student will be able to:
1. Exhibit understanding of general nutrition principles including food choices and nutrient intake, nutrients and their functions, evaluating nutrition information, and health implications of nutrient intake.
2. Describe the purpose of nutrient recommendations purpose, application, and evaluation as related to the DRIs, choose my plate and food labeling guidelines.
3. Exhibit knowledge of structure, functions, food sources and metabolic implications of carbohydrates on physiological processes including excesses and deficiencies.
4. Exhibit knowledge of structure, functions, food sources and metabolic implications of Lipids on physiological processes including excesses and deficiencies.
5. Exhibit knowledge of structure, fun ctions, food sources and metabolic implications of proteins on physiological processes including excesses and deficiencies.
6. Exhibit understanding of the relationships of vitamins from both food and supplemental sources on health, including specific charact eristics, functions, deficiency diseases, toxicities, and specific food sources of each nutrient.
7. Exhibit understanding of the relationships water and minerals from both food and supplemental sources on health, including specific characteristics, functions, deficiency diseases, toxicities, and specific food sources of each nutrient.
8. Exhibit understanding of the relationship between the composition of nutritional intake and the outcomes of pregnancy and infant growth and development, children, early adolescents, teens and older adults.
9. Exhibit understanding of weight control principles as related to energy balance.
10. Exhibit understanding issues related to domestic and global hunger.
11. Exhibit understanding of issues related to food safety.
Use a word processing program or text editor. Spell check and grammar check all work. Format your work to include a heading which includes your name, date,course, and title of assignment. I expect college level work from ALL writing assignments regardless of point value of assignment.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.