Science and Nutrition

The article, Choice, Control, and Change is an excellent article relating science and nutrition. Without science, nutrition would undoubtedly be more difficult to understand, if not impossib... See More

The article, Choice, Control, and Change is an excellent article relating science and nutrition. Without science, nutrition would undoubtedly be more difficult to understand, if not impossible to understand. Science is truly the backbone behind nutrition, and the reason we are able to understand and explore deeper into exactly how science and nutrition are interrelated. In this particular article, a specific module unit developed at Teachers College Columbia University which shares the same name as our article, Choice, Control, and Change, is discussed. This curriculum is based upon the driving question, “How can we use scientific evidence to help us make healthy food and activity choices?” This unit teaches us about the immense importance of science and nutrition and the contributions that both make to our daily life. The basis behind this curriculum, as well as this article, which is how to use scientific evidence to promote healthful food and activity choices, may perhaps change one’s life and/or peak their interest into scientific realms that they were unaware of. The fact that a science-education approach to childhood obesity is even an option, is quite astonishing to me and should be promoted with much greater emphasis!