To improve metabolic health, it is critical to reduce excess body fat. In this course, you will examine what's needed for sustained fat loss. Which is more effective: diet or exercise? You will explore the answer to that question and gain skills that will help you design a diet based on the scientific evidence.

Since losing weight is not the only indicator of good health, you will identify how dietary choices can improve overall health, even when weight loss is not the main goal. Advances in nutrition research point to new ways to achieve metabolic health, and you will discover how the innovation of precision nutrition could prove to be the most effective approach.

• Foundations of Metabolic Health
• Assessing the Effects of Obesity