NSC375
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NSC375 - Diet, Genes and Disease
Course ID
035992
Course Description
Current knowledge of human nutrition and genes has created a unique opportunity to use diet to improve quality of life through prevention and treatment of human disease. Also called Nutrigenomics, the identification and understanding of how nutrients and bioactive food components interact with the genome will be discussed, as well as how behavior and environmental actions can affect how genes work and affect disease risk. The course will cover the interaction between diet and genetically derived chronic disease risk factors like inflammation, how epigenetics may influence obesity risk, and how personal genomics may play a role in this developing field.
Min Units
3
Max Units
3
Repeatable for Credit
No
Grading Basis
GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E
Career
Undergraduate
Course Attributes
GE - T2-NATS (Tier 2 Natural Sciences), GEED - EPNAT (Gen Ed: EP Natural Scientist)
Course Requisites
May be convened with
Component
Lecture
Optional Component
No