The course aims to provide students with an overview of major issues in Human Nutrition. In particular, we consider principles of nutritional epidemiology and their impact on population-level recommendations in nutrition, the occurrence of nutrients in human foods, the causes and consequences of obesity and associated diseases, nutritional toxicology and the impact of nutrition at different stages of human life (eg foetal, childhood, young adult and reproductive-age females). The emphasis of the course will be on developing skills to interpret evidence for claims about optimal nutrition for individuals and populations.