Nutrition and wellness

1. What nutrients are important during various lifecycle stages?

2. Let's start the discussion of nutrition throughout the life cycle with pregnancy and the prenatal period? What is the "critical period" during the early prenatal period? What nutrients are important is a pregnant woman's diet?

3. As the infant grows and matures into the toddler stage what are the nutrients needed and what are the special challenges of feeding this group of children?

4. What is a chronic disease, and what role does nutrition play?

5.What are the characteristics of a chronic disease?  
6.  What are the many things that can go wrong and create chronic diseases? Who is at risk? What nutritional changes can we make to prevent and/or manage CVD problems?