Over the past few weeks, I have been taking a course to teach myself how to improve my nutrition. I was inspired to do this because I have become more physically active recently, but I had not yet focused on learning how to eat nutritiously on my own, without relying on others. To address this, I took a free course on Coursera from Stanford University titled Introduction to Food and Health. The lectures are delivered by Maya Adam, MD, a lecturer at Stanford who specializes in Health Media Innovation. This course was very eye-opening for me, as I had always thought of cooking and nutrition as…