Module Title
Nutrition and the Life Cycle
Keywords
Dietary sources, dietary requirements, children, adolescence, adults, elderly, energy balance, nutritional assessment, dietary variants |
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Prerequisites for Module
Successful completion of HS1036
Corequisite Modules
None.
Precluded Modules
None.
Aims of Module
To provide the student with the ability to understand functions of nutrients, the relationship between diet and disease, the varying nutritional needs of individuals throughout the life cycle and the dietary means to satisfy these.
Learning Outcomes for Module
On completion of this module, students are expected to be able to:
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Explain nutritional concepts relevant to macronutrients and micronutrients, including those of energy balance, and identify dietary sources.
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Explain the nutritional requirements at key stages of the life cycle and for different client groups.
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Explain the effect of the relationship between diet, physical activity and chronic disease.
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Determine dietary intake and energy expenditure.
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Devise, calculate and interpret recommended diets for different client groups.
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Indicative Module Content
Carbohydrates, lipids, essential fatty acids, protein, and nitrogen balance, essential and non-essential amino acids. Energy values of macronutrients, estimation of nutritional requirements. Nutritional requirements throughout life with particular reference to those during childhood, adolescence, adulthood and senescence. Nutritional assessment. Dietary variation; vegetarianism, ethnic variability, food allergy. Diet and chronic disease, cancer, cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes.
| Indicative Student Workload
Contact Hours
| Full Time | Lectures
| 20 | Tutorials
| 6 | Practicals
| 26 | Supervised Assessment
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Directed Study
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| 20 |
Private Study
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| 76 |
Mode of Delivery
Theoretical material is delivered by lectures, supplemented by practicals and discussed in tutorials.
Assessment Plan
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Learning Outcomes Assessed
| | Coursework | 1,2,3,4,5
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Coursework consists of a written report based on practical work.
Indicative Bibliography
| 1. | DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, 1991. Dietary reference values for food energy and nutrients for the United Kingdom. London: HMSO.
| | 2. | GARROW, J.S. & JAMES, W.P.T. & RALPH, A., 2000. Human nutrition and dietetics. 10th ed. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
| | 3. | SADLER, M.J., STRAIN, J.J. & CABALLERO, B., 1998. Encyclopedia of human nutrition. Volume 1, 2 & 3. London: Academic Press.
| | 4. | BARASI, M.E., 2003. Human nutrition: a health perspective. London: Arnold.
| | 5. | SHETTY, P., 2002. Nutrition through the life cycle. Surrey: Leatherhead Publishing.
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