The course focuses on both under-nutrition and over-nutrition; the course provides students with an in-depth understanding of the practical nutritional management of these problems, at both the individual and the population level; the course provides students with knowledge of therapeutic management of both over-nutrition and under-nutrition; students consider nutritional care of obesity and cardiovascular disease; evaluate dietary approaches to malnutrition in the sick and hospitalized; and examine the care of childhood malnutrition leading to stunting and wasting; students take a global perspective and consider malnutrition problems as they affect groups and individuals in both developing and developed countries.