ADVANCED HUMAN NUTRITION -PRACTICAL

Paper Code: 
24HFN127
Credits: 
05
Contact Hours: 
75.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable the students to –

  1. Understand various techniques nutritional status assessment.
  2. Understand Research Design and Body composition estimation.

 

Course Outcomes: 

Course

Learning outcome

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment

Strategies

Course Code

Course title

 

24HFN127

Advanced Human Nutrition-Practical

(Practical)

COFN33: Assess community nutritional status through various techniques including dietary surveys, anthropometric measurements, and the administration of standardized stress scales and cognition tests.

COFN34:

Design research plans addressing macronutrient and micronutrient deficiencies, along with overnutrition, and plan and prepare nutritious recipes tailored for emergency situations, sports and fitness, and high-altitude environments.

COFN35: Compile comprehensive practical records having exercises based on nutritional status assessment, research plan proposals and development of recipes and cultivate verbal communication skills to converse effectively with examiners

COFN36: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Power Point Presentations, demonstration

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, presentations, Field trips

Quiz,

Power Point Presentations, Individual and group projects, Semester End Examination, demonstration

 

 

 
 
Unit I: 
CONTENTS

Assessment of nutritional status in community using various techniques

  • Dietary Survey: 24 Hr Dietary recall, Food Frequency Questionnaire, Standardization of recipe
    • Anthropometry: Height, Weight, Waist Circumference, Hip Circumference, MUAC- Analysis of data using WHO Standards

Stress scale (Standard), cognition tests.

Research plan proposed or a research design

  • Macronutrient Deficiency: Protein Energy Malnutrition/ Severe Acute Malnutrition
  • Micronutrient Deficiency: Vitamin A, Iron, Iodine
  • Over nutrition or Obesity

Body Composition: Estimation, Analysis and Interpretation

Planning and preparation of various nutritious recipes for

  • Emergency conditions
  • Sports and fitness
  • High altitudes

 

Essential Readings: 
ESSENTIAL READINGS
1. Bamji, M.S., Rao, P.N. and Reddy, V. (Eds) (1996) : Textbook of Human Nutrition, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd.
2. Denis M Medeiros and Robert E.C.Wildman.(2012) : Advanced Human Nutrition. Jones & Bartlett Learning. Third Edition
 
 
 
References: 
 
SUGGESTED READINGS
1. McCollum, E.V. (1957) : History of Nutrition, Houghton Mifflin Co.
2. Waterlow, J.C. (1992) Protein Energy Malnutrition, Edward Arnold, A Division of Hodder & Stoughton.
3. Bauernfeind, J. Christopher (Ed.) (1986) : Vitamin and its Control, Academic Press.
4. Gopalan, C. (Ed) (1993) Recent Trends in Nutrition, Oxford University Press.
5. DeMaeyer, E.M. (1989) : Preventing and Controlling Iron Deficiency Anaemia through    Primary Health Care, WHO
 
Academic Year: 
2024-2025
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