ANT 209 NUTRITIONAL ANTHROPOLOGY
This course explores global nutrition dynamics through an anthropological lens, examining the complex relationships between food, health, and human physical and cognitive development. Topics include human subsistence strategies; food insecurity and famine; the nutrition transition and its impacts on health; methods for assessing nutritional status, including energy balance and anthropometry; environmental stress and its impact on growth; and the intersections of malnutrition, infectious disease, and chronic illness. Students will also engage with approaches to measuring the global burden of disease related to both over- and under-nutrition.
Enrollment Limit
Enrollment limited to 24 students.
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