Course Description

Nutrition looks at the food people eat and its effects on health and fitness.

Students taste food, change recipes to make them healthier, learn how to evaluate a person’s diet and recommend improvements.

Students also study how food choices affect people’s wellbeing and how various factors other than taste affect food choice.

Core Topics:

• The Fundamentals of Human Nutrition
• Diet, Lifestyle and Health
• Food Selection and Dietary Evaluation
• Food, Nutrition and the Consumer

Optional Topics:

• Global Nutrition and Ecological Sustainability or
• Global Hunger

Assessment Type & Weighting

Investigations Folio	40%
Skills and Application Tasks	30%
Examination	30%

Semester Offered

Full Year