Master's Degree - Dietetics

2024 Spring Course Info
StatisticsResearch MethodsCurrent Issues or TrendsAdvanced Nutrition: Nutrigenomics, Nutrigenetics & Advanced Lipid Metabolism in Human NutritionClinical Aspects of Nutrition SupportMicronutrients in Human NutritionPublic Health NutritionNutrition Education in the Community
2023 Fall Course Info
StatisticsResearch MethodsCurrent Issues or TrendsAdvanced Medical Nutrition TherapyNutrition: A Focus on Life StagesNutrition & Human PerformancePublic Health NutritionObesity Across the LifespanPediatric Clinical NutritionNutrition & ImmunologyNutrition Therapy for Eating Disorders
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Course Information
Maternal and Child Nutrition
Course Description
This course is a critical examination of behavioral, physiological, and public health issues impacting dietary and nutritional factors that support normal growth and development. The course content focuses on the early stages of the life cycle: gestation, lactation, infancy, preschool, school age, and adolescence. Topics include the fetal programming hypothesis, growth and nutritional requirements, breast feeding and formula feeding of infants, infant weaning, and eating behaviors that lead to normal growth, growth faltering, and pediatric obesity.
Contacts
Instructor

Danielle Christifano
dchristifano@kumc.edu

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Disability Support Services

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Textbooks

Life Cycle Nutrition. An Evidence-Based Approach
Edelstein, Sari
Edition: 2nd
ISBN: 978-1284036671
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Your Child’s Weight: Helping Without Harming
Satter, Ellyn
ISBN: 0967118913
Publisher: Kelcy Press

Course Access
 
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  1. If this is your first course through KUMC, a new account will be created.  You will receive an initial email from tlt@kumc.edu with instructions on how to open a secure email, followed by the secure email which will provide your login instructions and the title of the course(s) you are enrolled in.
  2. If you have taken a course through KUMC and your account is still active, usually having taken a course within the past year, you will receive an email from tlt@kumc.edu informing you of the course(s) you are enrolled in, your username, and who to contact if you forgot your password.
  3. If you have taken a course through KUMC before and it has been a year or longer, your account will most likely need to be reactivated.  You will receive a secure email from accountmanagement@kumc.edu with your login instructions.

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Exam Proctor

This course does not require an exam proctor.

Synchronous Components

This course does not include synchronous components.

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