Would you like to learn a little more about solving important problems affecting oral and general health? And you would you also like to learn more about the growing world of craft beer? If your answer to both questions is YES, then sign up now!

6-8pm Tuesday, Oct 10 at Murphy Brown's Craft Beer Emporium

Nutrition in General Health & Oral Health

This course will review the role of nutrients in maintaining overall health with a focus on how nutrition is related to oral health. The first half will review macronutrients (foods ingested in gram quantities) such as, protein, lipid, and carbohydrate. The second half will review, vitamins and minerals, the micronutrients (nutrients ingested in milligram and microgram amounts). Oral conditions associated with either a deficiency and/or excess of specific nutrients will be discussed.

At the conclusion of the course, participants should be able to describe:

• The differences between the macronutrients and the micronutrients

• The role of proteins, lipids and carbohydrates in health and disease

• How vitamins & minerals play a role in health

• The role of nutrition in general health and oral health

This course is appropriate for: everyone