NUTR 406: Nutrition in Developmental Origins of Health and Diseases

Course Description

Credits 3.
3 Lecture Hours.Overview of the connection between maternal nutrition and the Developmental Origins of Health and Diseases (DOHaD); focus on prenatal and perinatal nutrition and how it affects DOHaD; examination of the discovery of the DOHaD concept and how exposure status is remembered in the body over the long term; exploration of the associations between DOHaD-related diseases and specific nutrients; discussion of how genetic variation and sexual dimorphism influence these disease outcomes.Prerequisites:NUTR 301,NUTR 366, andNUTR 367;GENE 301orGENE 302; junior or senior classification, or approval of instructor.