NUTR 2060 - Principles of Outdoor Nutrition

Credits: 1

This course is designed for outdoor professionals and outdoor recreation enthusiasts who desire to develop useful nutrition skills while working and recreating in the wilderness environment. Students will be instructed on the challenges varied environments have on maintaining proper nutrition and hydration. Basic nutrition knowledge will be combined with human physiology responses to extreme environments to provide nutrition support for the healthy individual working in these environments as well as appropriate nutrition for planning rations, preventing dehydration and appropriate waste disposal while in the backcountry. Students will apply knowledge acquired in lecture to practical field exercises utilizing nutrition principles in the outdoors. It is recommended students take NUTR 1020 prior to this course.

Semesters Offered: All

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