1. To ensure that students have a basic knowledge of the effects of nutrition on health by emphasizing the mechanisms of biochemical reactions and metabolism 2. Show the principles that are important to prevent nutrition-related diseases 3. Adapt knowledge about the relationship between nutrition and human metabolism to food systems

Regulation of digestion, absorption, energy metabolism; Carbohydrate, fat, protein metabolism; Vitamin, mineral, trace element metabolism, absorption, toxicity; Inorganic nutrients; Free radicals, oxidative stress, antioxidants, enzymes: molecular mechanism and health; Nutritional principles for different ages, gender, and occupational groups, anthropometric measures, infection and immune system, nutrition and cardiovascular disorders, effects of nutrition on cancer, congenital metabolic disorders; Basic metabolic problems and regulatory diets.