Applied Nutrition (10 sessions)

This course will present the most up-to-date information about what we know and what we don’t know about nutrition’s role in promoting good health. Topics will include but are not limited to digestion, B vitamins, weight control, diet and cancer, osteoporosis, diabetes & hypertension, the optimal diet for longest and healthiest life, and what nutritional and health products are worthless. Participants are encouraged to bring questions for discussion

Instructor: David A. Levitsky

David, (PhD. Experimental Psychology, Rutgers) is Professor Emeritus, Division of Nutritional Sciences & Department of Psychology at Cornell. He was the Scientific Advisor to the Culinary Institute of America, and taught in the Division of Nutritional Sciences for almost 50 years.