New Directions 214: SBM/Nutrition
Course Chair: Barbara A. O'Mara, MD
VA Hospital
802-295-9363

The SBM Nutrition Course is an introduction to nutrition principles and the use of nutrition in medical therapy. The purpose of the course is to stimulate a lifelong interest in nutrition. Students will analyze their own diet with the aid dietary computer software and review micronutrients in depth. Three therapeutic diets will be reviewed in detailed as examples of nutritional therapy: diet therapy for phenylketonuria, hypercholesterolemia and renal failure.

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Scientific Basis of Medicine