BSc Minor Nutrition and Health

Human nutrition and our health are closely related. For studying the relationship between human nutrition/human diet and our health, one can look at many different scales. In this BSc minor students will get basic knowledge on how nutrition influences health. They will be introduced to some of the levels (population-individual-cell/molecule) and the biomedical approaches to this domain.
Students enrolling in this minor should have knowledge of at least VWO-level Biology AND Chemistry.
This BSc minor is a programme minor.

• Explain and appreciate the effect of nutrition on human health and disease

• Understand at a basic level the mechanisms underlying the effect of nutrition on human health

• Understand how this effect can be studied at the population level using epidemiological methods

• Recognize and understand the digestion and function of microand macro-nutrients in the human body

• Identify determinants of nutrition behaviour and food habits on an individual and social level.