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Nov 03, 2025
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Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG] Chemeketa Community College, Salem OR (curriculum@chemeketa.edu)
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NFM 225 Nutrition
Lecture Hours: 4
Credits: 4
Covers nutrients, their sources, and body utilization to promote optimum health. Includes development of eating patterns, current dietary trends, nutrition information in mass media.
Prerequisite: Placement into WR 115 (or higher), or completion of WR 090 (or higher) with a grade of C or better; or consent of instructor.
Student Learning Outcomes:
- Describe psychological, sociological and physiological factors influencing eating habits.
- List nutrients essential to normal body functioning and describe how each nutrient relates to body function, health and growth.
- Explain how to prepare, process, and store foods for maximum retention of nutrients.
- Describe the processes of digestion, absorption, transport, metabolism, and excretion in the nutrition cycle.
- Explain factors influencing individual nutrient requirements including Recommended Dietary Allowances (RDA)
- Distinguish among foods as relative sources of calories and the various nutrients.
- Interpret daily nutrient needs in terms of meals and snacks suited to the individual’s age, sex, size, lifestyle, culture, and income.
- Evaluate nutrition information and related consumer concerns; including current food fads, popular diets, food labeling and advertisements, and nutrient fortification of foods.
- Define current under-nutrition and over-nutrition problems in the U.S. and globally; explain and analyze programs designed to combat malnutrition.
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