This concludes the course on the 
fundamentals of human nutrition. 
Over the past ten weeks, you've developed 
the background for continued learning in 
nutritional science. 
This course is not only illustrated how 
food is essential to life. 
but also how our food is literally a part 
of us. 
You looked at food at the microscopic 
level and discovered how elements then go 
on to function at the macroscopic level. 
Look back at your mind map. 
Do you think there are more branches you 
could add as you learn more about the 
nutrition, the nutritional science? 
You've created a map in the shape of a 
person. 
So imagine, adding more complex concepts 
to the head, the body, and all of the 
limbs, creating details in your mind map. 
So that the very words of your mind map, 
every detail of nutrition, becomes the 
muscle tissue, the nervous system, the 
cardiovascular system of our human model. 
When you compared your mind map to those 
of your classmates, how were they 
different? How might the similarities and 
differences in your mind map outline and 
parallel the nutritional similarities and 
differences between individuals? In this 
course, you've had the opportunity to 
study nutrition concepts that are the 
same for all humans, 
as well as compare nutritional science 
and dietetics across the globe. 
You travel to another country, you try to 
eat well while abroad and learned how 
nutrition recommendations differ from 
country to country, even though, our 
overall nutritional requirements and how 
our bodies use nutrients is pretty much 
the same. 
I began this course stating that we are 
what we eat. 
And now, you can understand how this is 
literally true. 
When we consider the aspects of human 
growth, development, health, disease 
prevention, and longevity, nutrition's at 
the center of it all. 
You've learned that nutrition is science. 
But it is by no means simple. 
Although we're biochemical organisms, the 
choices we make, our history, 
backgrounds, cultures, traditions, 
environments, resources, situations and 
even futures play a role in how we eat. 
We might be able to simplify nutrition to 
basic scientific facts. But in reality, 
preventing malnutrition is not 
necessarily simple. 
As research in nutritional science and 
clinical nutrition progress, we'll likely 
continue to make new discoveries, 
refer to our history, and be faced with 
novel challenges. 
During this course, 
you are the clinician. Reviewing medical 
information and making a nutrition 
diagnosis and a recommendation. 
And future physicians might do best to 
follow suit. 
Collaborate with nutrition professionals 
and consider their patient's nutrition. 
And they're diagnosis. 
Perhaps, you took this course to educate 
yourself. 
Maybe it's a first step in a career path 
in nutrition, or maybe you're looking to 
incorporate nutritional science and 
education into what you already do. 
Whatever your reason, I encourage you to 
pass it on. 
Be educated and become the educator. 
Finally, as you continue to learn about 
nutrition, come back to the basics and 
beware of misinformation. 
Better yet, be a nutrition, be a 
nutrition myth buster. 
When researching and reading, always 
consider the source. 
Beware of extremes, and think critically. 
If you go on to teach others, either 
clinically or personally, remember, think 
of your audience, share good information, 
dispel the bad information, and strive to 
promote viral learning so that knowledge 
of good nutrition continues to spread. 
Thank you.