Nutrition

What we eat is considered an environmental factor that influences health, in positive and negative ways. Healthy diets with an optimal balance of nutrients help people accomplish daily physical activities and mental processes. Within your diet, a deficiency or excess of certain nutrients can affect health.

The term diet refers to foods and beverages consumed over time in all settings, such as worksites, schools, restaurants, and the home. Diet also often means a specific nutritional plan or eating pattern.

Nutrition is the process of consuming, absorbing, and using nutrients from food that are necessary for growth, development, and maintenance of life.

Check out these campus resources and learn more about how you can optimize your nutrition today!

Campus Physical Resource Center

Case Western Reserve University's Physical Resource Center (PRC) offers free resources such as perishable and shelf stable food items, hygiene products, cleaning products, and clothing. Open to all students, faculty, staff, and community members. Open Mondays 4:30pm to 6:30pm, Thursdays 3:30pm to 6:30pm, Fridays 4:00pm to 6:30pm, and Saturdays from 10:00am to 6:00pm. Located in Carlton Commons (11892 Carlton Road). This resource is usually only open during the Fall and Spring academic semesters. Free parking is available by Sigma Chi House in the designated PRC parking spots. Call 216.368.1527 with any questions.

Courses for Your Shopping Cart

NTRN 200. Case Cooks: Ethnic Eats (1 cr.)
In a world as connected as ours, it is important to learn about others' cultures; and what better way to learn than through the medium of food! Something as simple as food can be interpreted thousands of ways and can serve as a link from our culture to ethnicities around the world. This half-semester class focuses on exploring cultural diversity in a way that everyone can relate to while also incorporating healthy, simple, budget friendly cooking skills. Course is geared towards the beginner skill level. Each week we will explore a different region of the world including Africa, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East! Note: Please email instructor before registering if you have food allergies.
 

NTRN 200H. Case Cooks: Healthy Lifestyles (1 cr.)
Studies say that those who frequently cook meals at home eat healthier, consume fewer calories and are happier than those who eat out. Isn't it time you learn to cook? Join your classmates for a fun, edible education. This half-semester class focuses on healthy, simple, budget friendly cooking skills to increase your confidence in the kitchen. Course is geared towards the beginner skill level. Weekly cooking topics include, Treasures from the earth, Keep it simple & Make it quick, Protein power, Grocery game plans & Mastering Student Meals, Make it lighter. Note: Please email instructor before registering if you have food allergies.
 

NTRN 200S. Case Cooks: Sports and Performance (1 cr.)
Proper nutrition and hydration have a major impact on health and sports performance across all levels of training and competition. When active individuals/sports enthusiasts/athletes want to improve their performance, whether it is strength, speed, endurance, or power, they need to train and eat with proper guidance. Investing time to develop eating plans that are mindful of your type of activity and performance goals will optimize training, refuel and rehydrate faster, and decrease risk of illness and injury. This half-semester class focuses on healthy, simple, budget-friendly cooking skills that will help develop an understanding of healthy food and fluid choices to fuel an athlete/sports enthusiast/active individuals' body before, during and after activity when training, competing, recovering or traveling. Weekly cooking topics include: Overall Athlete Nutrition, Carbohydrates, Protein, Recovery & Immunity, Antioxidants & Inflammation, Hydration & Traveling/On-The Go.

Get Ready... 😴

For the Wellness competition of the year!! Introducing March Napness, the friendly weekly trivia game on sleep, how to optimize your nighttime routine, and other great wellness tips. From the Observer, 2 out of every 3 CWRU students are unsatisfied with their current sleeping habits. You won't want to doze off on this one!

Starting next week, look out for the Round One questions in the Wellness Wednesday Newsletter. Chapter's with the most engagement and correct answers advance to the next round. Do you have what it takes to sleep like a greek?

While participation is 100% optional, we hope you will join the Greek Life community in learning more. This event is not a part of Greek Games. Check out this year's championship bracket below!