NUTR 360 Lifestyle Rx
Lifestyle Rx will provide an overview of major health issues affecting the US population and how lifestyle medicine, an emerging evidence-based discipline, is being utilized to prevent and treat these noncommunicable diseases. Health interventions will be explored considering barriers to behavior change such as socio-economic, cultural, and environmental factors. The course uses various learning strategies, class discussion, group work, case studies, video and problem-solving activities and includes an intensive focus on the practice of motivational interviewing. Junior standing or consent of the instructor required.