The course aims to provide students the principles and practice on the fundamentals of nutrition science and its interactions with stresses in modern society. Topics including (1) Types of nutrients; (2) how different nutrients constitute the metabolism; (3) principles of metabolism regulation; (4) malnutrition, metabolic disorders and diseases; (5) types of stresses and their impacts on human health; (6) the interactions between nutrients and stresses (7) principles of stress management, and (8) proper nutrition in stress management. Throughout these topics, special attention will be paid on how to achieve balanced nutrition and metabolism, as well as how nutrition science facilitates stress management in modern society locally, nationally and internationally.