This course provides an overview of nutrition issues that affect pregnant and post-partum women, females in reproductive age, infants and children. It is a deep examination of behavioral, physiological and public health issues that have an impact on dietary and nutritional factors that support normal growth and development.

The content of this course focuses on early stages of the lifecycle starting from gestation, lactation, infancy, preschool, school age and adolescence. Topics in this course will or should include but not limited to:

-        Fetal programming hypothesis.

-        Growth and nutritional requirements.

-        Breast and formula feeding of infants

-        Infants weaning

-        Eating behaviors that lead to normal growth, growth faltering, and pediatric obesity