The Science of Health: Based on Structure, Function & Purpose: Biological Practice, Application & Implementation

Chapter 1. Welcome to the Science of Health

• Make sense of the correlations between our current food selection and the nutrition related issues we face today such as obesity, food-related illnesses, deficiencies, and allergens.
• Explain the structural, functional, and purposeful understandings of eating to live, thrive, and survive.
• Understand the correlations between our inherited mindset and the food choices we make.
• Understand ultimate goals that impact the individual, family, culture, society, and species.
• Provide scientific understanding of physical health information to others within his/her family, culture, and/or society.

Chapter 2. Why…

• Practice, apply, and implement his/her understanding about the purpose of digestion.
• Apply the structural, functional, and purposeful understandings to science, nutrition, and health.
• Explain scientific understandings of physical health information to others within his/her family, culture, and/or society.

Chapter 3. Important Content to Understand Throughout

• Understand scientific terminology that is specific to the content of health and nutrition.
• Recognize, understand, and improve his/her own individual state of physical health.
• Apply the structural, functional, and purposeful understandings to science, nutrition, and health.
• Recognize if the foods ingested contain compatible nutrients required for growth, maintenance, and repair of the body (more specifically, cells).
• Evaluate the nutrition content of foods in order to make healthy food choices.
• Demonstrate the skill of food label interpretation.

Chapter 4. The Gastrointestinal (G.I.) System

• Apply the structural, functional, and purposeful understandings to the digestive system
• Practice, apply, and implement his/her understanding about the purpose of digestion.
• Explain how food and nutrients are processed in the body; i.e. ingestion, digestion, absorption, transportation, metabolism, and elimination.
• Identify and describe common digestive conditions, disorders, and diseases of the GI tract.

Chapter 5. The Science of Food and Nutrients

• Define and make sense of nutrients, food, and nutrition relative to the overall purpose of digestion.
• Identify, categorize, and classify the six classes of nutrients accordingly.
• Know how to calculate caloric intake from a dish to a meal.
• Break down the structural composition of foods, from meal to monomer.
• Recognize and describe the different kinds of polymers.
• Build upon nutritional terminology and scientific knowledge.
• Understand the structure, function, and purpose of the six essential nutrients.
• Identify, categorize, and classify the six classes of nutrients accordingly.

Chapter 6. The Science of Physical Activity

• Define stress and describe ways in which stress can manifest itself.
• Understand the importance of physical activity.
• Develop workout regimes that are lifestyle, career, and/or disease prevention focused.
• Implement proper posture, form, and technique during exercise routines.
• Apply the understanding of the science of breathing.
• Design and implement workout regimens that focuses on strength, function and core, aerobic fitness, muscular fitness, total fitness, and flexibility
• Understand and apply techniques to recover from physical activities and injuries.
• Assess your own health-related fitness by perform a series of tests.

Chapter 7. Time to Workout!

• Create, execute and implement physical activity routines that incorporates a total body fitness experience based on muscular strength and endurance, cardio, flexibility and core fitness.
• Practice, apply and implement physical activity routines that will get you moving and can be naturally incorporated into your daily activities.
• Incorporate a lifestyle approach in implementing physical activities that can flow with the day-to-day tasks.

Chapter 8. Auxiliary Content

• Make sense of the relationship between food and disease when it comes to preventions, cures, and treatments.
• Understand how to decode the myths, misconceptions, and misinformation of nutrition.
• Analyze the different governmental agencies who implements policies and procedures that regulate our foods.
• Evaluate different nutrition careers that are relevant to today’s job market.