Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate knowledge of human nutritional needs and the role of nutrition in

improving individual health and the societal economic impact of food choices.

2 cups of fruits, 2 ½ cups of vegetables, 6.0 oz grains, 5 ½ protein, 3 cups of dairy daily.
Societal economic impacts on how good our food is, and what they are able to sell us,
like for example mad cow disease, is when the cow has a brain disorder disease and
can get sick anyone who eats it, making this kind of meat more expensive and not
accessible as it used to be.

2. Relate technological advancements in medicine and food production to the

advancement of the science of human nutrition.

Pesticides is one of the technological advancements making fruit and vegetables have a
longer life since bugs are not able to consume it.

3. Explain the impact that the food industry has on human food choices and the
subsequent relationship to health and disease at the individual, societal, and
environmental level.

Food industry chooses to use GMO’s and Pesticides, to make our food last longer and
better looking. They also make a lot of meat, and a lot of trucks are needed to deliver
them to every grocery store making a huge impact in the climate change, also if they
ignore when an animal is sick and they kill it instead to sell it, a lot of people can get sick
by eating the animal.

4. Provide examples of past and present nutrient and diet trends in modern
society and the positive and/or negative implications on human health and the
earth’s resources.

In the past we would be forced to drink a lot of dairy, like cows milk. But now that a lot of
people are being lactose intolerant we have a lot more plant-based options. Cow’s milk
have more calcium and protein which is a positive but a negative for lactose intolerant
people, but doctors say that milk is only for babies, so we don’t need to keep drinking
cow’s milk, we can always replace it with almond’s milk and it has calcium added and
protein and a plant-based option is always better.

5. Provide examples of positive and negative interactions of humankind with

microorganisms regarding sickness, health and food production.
 Obesity is one of the biggest interactions of humankind with food production,
leading them to death, or chronic diseases. A positive interaction would be that
thanks to medicine and research we can keep living with the symptoms or make
them disappear with better health and nutrition.

6. Address diet and nutrient issues and concerns for weight control, disease
prevention, physical activity, food availability, and biotechnology.

To control your weight, it is important to keep a balance by eating the same calories and
burning the same calories. We can always prevent a disease by eating the right amount
of micronutrients and macronutrients. Physical activity is also important to avoid a
chronic disease, which also helps giving more strength to your body to heal itself and
produce more toxins. Food availability; is really important to choose nutrient-dense food
to have in your house, which would make your food availability a lot healthier than just
choosing energy-dense food making you want to eat that instead. Biotechnology
manipulates hormones and antibiotics for industrial purposes this is what makes our
food last longer and look a lot more attractive.

Reflection

Answer the following reflection prompts:

1. Make connections between what you studied in this nutrition course with what
you’ve learned in other courses at SLCC or before. Make specific references
to your work in this class and in the other courses. How did what you learn in
the other courses enhance what you learned in nutrition, and vice versa?

This was my first nutrition class I have taken in Salt Lake Community College, and it
only gave me proof of what I have heard in the past, like everyone would say that fruits
and vegetables are good for you but they would never tell you the reason why they are
good for you, and they also talk about how vegetables and fruits helps you avoid cancer
and diseases but in the class I learned that this actually happens thanks to their
phytochemicals, and vitamins and minerals that are toxins which help free radicals
balance and not damage the DNA. And when I went to the doctor my doctor told me
that fiber didn’t absorb, and I didn’t understand the reason why it didn’t absorbed or why
we still had to take fiber even though we are not able to absorb, until I took this class.
Everything I have learned about nutrition in the past makes sense to me now, because
this class actually gave me an explanation with facts and not just opinions and I don’t
care about opinions I care about facts.
 2. Reflect on how you thought about nutrition before you took this course and
how you think about it now that the course is over. Have any of your
assumptions or understandings changed? Why? What
assignments/activities/readings were influential in this process? How will you
approach (course topic) differently in the future?

This class made Nutrition more interesting than it already was before I took this class,
when someone talks about nutrition they only think about food, but they don’t think
about the science behind it. It is amazing to understand something that we do on our
daily lives like eating food and how does our body absorb it, and how much do we need
to not get sick or intoxicated if you eat too much. It is another world, and everything
inside this new world I just discovered amazes me, because it is not just food, we can
use the food that we are eating everyday as a natural source of medicine.