The Core Curriculum for Nutritional Sciences Majors

Your core curriculum will include introductory courses in chemistry, biology, organic chemistry,
biochemistry, physiology, math and the social sciences. You also will complete five core courses
in nutritional sciences:

 NS 1150: Nutrition, Health and Society

 NS 2450: Social Science Perspectives on Food and Nutrition
 NS 3450: Introduction to Physicochemical and Biological Aspects of Foods
 NS 3310: Nutrient Metabolism
 NS 3320: Methods in Nutritional Sciences

In addition, you will take at least three advanced level courses in nutritional sciences and courses
to meet the general education requirements for your college. You may choose from a broad range
of advanced courses including:

 NS 3060: Nutrition and Global Health

 NS 3150: Obesity and the Regulation of Body Weight
 NS 3220: Maternal and Child Nutrition
 NS 4250: Nutrition Communications and Counseling
 NS 4410: Nutrition and Disease
 NS 4450: Toward a Sustainable Global Food System: Food Policy for Developing
Countries
 NS 4500: Public Health Nutrition
 NS 4570: Health, Poverty, and Inequality: A Global Perspective

https://www.human.cornell.edu/dns/academics/undergraduate/nsmajor.

Through collaborations with many educational and industry partners, we have developed several
models that can be used to integrate our knowledge of feed, intake, and digestion and passage
rates upon feed energy values, escape of dietary protein, and microbial growth
efficiency. Mathematical nutrition models can be valuable tools for estimating animal
requirements and nutrients derived from feeds in each unique farm production scenario, and thus
can have an important role in providing information that can be used in the decision-making
process to enhance the feeding system (Tedeschi et al., 2005b). By accounting for farm-specific
animal, feed, and environmental characteristics, more accurate prediction of dietary nutrient
requirements for maintenance, growth and milk production of cattle and nutrient excretion in
diverse production situations is possible (Fox et al., 2004).

https://nutritionmodels.tamu.edu/
Sir Kenneth Blaxter
Rowett Research Institute
Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

Sir Kenneth Blaxter has spent virtually the whole of his career in the British Agricultural Research
Service. Nevertheless, he has disseminated his discoveries and ideas through the media of
international conferences, farming meetings and via the many visiting scientists who have
worked with him at his research institutes. He is particularly distinguished for the precise and
detailed studies he has made on the energy requirements of ruminants and the ways once the
necessary energy has been supplied to the diet, that it is utilized in the animal´s metabolism. This
has lead to a new understanding, both of the nutritional needs of the animal and of the most
effective ways in which the diet may be made up and varied, and utilized most efficiently by the
ruminant to produce more meat, milk or both. Thus the farmer can now control this aspect of the
animal´s environment with far greater efficiency to give a higher yield at the most economical
price.
His approach and practical proposals have been widely adopted throughout the world and,
because he has enunciated the fundamental principles so clearly, it has proved possible to adapt
or modify them to a diversity of farming system.

http://www.wolffund.org.il/index.php?dir=site&page=winners&cs=269&language=eng

LEONARD MAYNARD

Professor of Biochemistry and Nutrition; director of the School of Nutition,1941-1955; special consultant to
the U.S. Interdepartmental Committee for Nutrition and National Defense.
After receiving his Ph.D. in chemistry from Cornell University in 1915 Leonard Amby Maynard was
appointed assistant professor in the College of Agriculture there. In 1934 he served as visiting professor at the
University of Nanking, China, and assisted in a survey of the nutrition of the Chinese farm family. At Cornell
he directed the Animal Nutrition Laboratory and the U.S. Plant, Soil, and Nutrition Laboratory. He was named
commissioner in charge of nutrition for the New York State Emergency Food Commission during World War
II., and late in 1947 was appointed to a new food commission established by Governor Thomas E. Dewey. He
wrote ANIMAL NUTRITION (1937); coauthored BETTER DAIRY FARMING with Elmer S. Savage; and
wrote numerous publications on biochemistry and nutrition.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMA00292.html
 Classification of Feeds and Fodders
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The various feeds and fodders used in livestock feeding are broadly classified as: A) Roughages; B)
Concentrates; C) Feed supplements and Feed additives. Roughages – Roughages are the feed stuffs which
contain more than 18 percent crude fiber and less than 60 percent Total Digestible Nutrients. Due to higher
crude fiber content, they are more bulky and have low digestibility as compared to concentrates. 1)
Maintenance type – Containing 3-5 percent DCP e.g. Green maize, oat. 2) Non-maintenance type – containing
less than 3 percent DCP e.g. Straw, kadbi. 3) Production type – containing more than 5 percent DCP e.g.
Berseem, lucerne. (DCP – Digestible Crude Protein) The roughages are further classified into two major group
as: 1) Green / succulent roughages – They contain about 60-90 percent moisture eg. Pastures, cultivated
fodders, tree leaves, root crops and silages. 2) Dry roughages – They contain about 10-15 percent moisture
e.g. Straw, Hay and kadbi.
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 1 Concentrates

 2 Feed Supplements

 3 Feed Additives

 4 Fill in the blanks

Concentrates
These are the feedstuffs which contain less than 18 percent crude fibre and more than 60 percent TDN. They
are less bulky and have higher digestibility. They are concentrated source of nutrients and therefore, they have
higher nutritive value than roughages. The concentrates are further classified as: 1) Energy Rich Concentrates
– e.g. Cereal grains, cereal grain byproducts, Roots and tubers. 2) Protein Rich Concentrates – i) Plant origin
e.g. Oilseed cake, pulse chuni, Brewer’s grains and yeast. ii) Animal origin e.g. Fish meal, Meat meal, Blood
meal

Feed Supplements
Feed supplements are the compounds used to improve the nutritional value of the basal feeds so as to take
care of any deficiency. Commonly used feed supplements are 1) Vitamin supplements e.g. Rovimix, Vitablend,
Arovit etc. 2) Mineral supplements e.g. Minimix, Milk min, Nutrimilk, Aromin etc.

Feed Additives
Feed additives are the non-nutritive substances usually added to basal feed in small quantity for the fortification
in order to improve feed efficiency and productive performance of the animals. Some commonly used feed
additives are as below: 1) Antibiotics e.g. Terramycin, Zinc bacitracin, Flavomycin etc. 2) Enzymes e.g.
Amylase, lipase, protease, pepsin etc. 3) Hormones eg. Estrogen, progesterone, hexosterol etc. 4)
Thyroprotein e.g. Iodinated casein. 5) Probiotics e.g. Microbial species. Lactobacillus. 6) Biostimulators e.g.
Extracts of living organs like spleen, liver, ovary, chick embryo etc. 7) Antioxidants e.g. Vitamin E
(Tocopherols), BHT ( Butylated hydroxy toluene). 8) Mold inhibitors e.g. Propionic acid, acetic acid. 9) Pellet
binders e.g Gur, meal, molasses, sodium bentonite. 10) Coccidiostats e.g. Amprolsol powder, Furasol powder.
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1) are the feedstuff which contain more than 18 per cent crude fibre. 2) are the feedstuff which contain less
than 18 per cent crude fibre. 3) are the compounds used to improve the nutritional value of basal feeds. 4) are
non nutritive substances used in basal feed to improve feed efficiency. 5) Dry roughages contain percent
moisture.

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