ADVANCED HUMAN NUTRITION -PRACTICAL (Practical)

Paper Code: 
25HFN127
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: 

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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
   
   
   

 

60.00
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: 
  1. Bamji, M.S., Rao, P.N. and Reddy, V. (Eds) 2015) : Textbook of Human Nutrition, Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. Pvt. Ltd 2nd Ed.
  2. Denis M Medeiros and Robert E.C.Wildman.(2012) : Advanced Human Nutrition. Jones & Bartlett Learning. Third Edition

 

References: 
  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

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Academic Year: 
2025-2026
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