EXSC 3232 - Nutrition and Fitness for Women

Credit Hours: 3

This course provides students with foundational knowledge about the unique female energy, nutrition and fitness issues compared to their male counterparts. The student will become familiar with the most common nutrition issues including the required energy to meet the demands of sport, activities of daily living, and reproduction while choosing the appropriate foods to support physical activity, building and repair of bone and muscle and overall health. Students will create meal plans, reflect on the influence of various forms of media on female body composition and nutrition choices and formulate meal plans that foster a healthy female gut microbiome. Offered spring, annually.