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ADVANCED HUMAN NUTRITION (THEORY)
Paper Code:
HFN 124
Credits:
03
Contact Hours:
45.00
Max. Marks:
100.00
Objective:
This course will enable the students to -
• Understand the body composition and patterns of growth and its relationships with nourishment levels.
• Get acquainted with nutritional requirements in special conditions.
• Understand interrelationship of nutrients.
• Evaluate and interpret parameters of nutritional status assessment.
10.00
Unit I:
Body Composition
• Significance
• Technique
• Changes during life cycle
10.00
Unit II:
Growth and development
• General aspects of normal human growth and development from the viewpoint of physical growth. Cellular growth maturation and adjustment made at birth.
• Gerontology – the ageing process and altered nutrition.
• Prenatal and postnatal malnutrition.
10.00
Unit III:
Assessment of Nutritional Status using various methods
• Clinical examination for signs and symptoms of nutritional deficiencies and excesses.
• Biochemical estimation.
• Anthropometry.
• Dietary survey.
5.00
Unit IV:
Nutritional management in special conditions
• Emergencies such as draught, famine, floods and earthquakes.
• Astronautics
• High altitudes
• Sports nutrition
10.00
Unit V:
Nutritional interrelationships
Nutritional interrelationships
• Concept of nutritional relationship – proteins – energy, carbohydrates – fat, naicin – typtophane , pyridoxine relationships.
• Effect of carbohydrates, fats and protein on vitamin requirements
• Nutrient adaptation to low intake of energy, protein, vitamin A, calcium and iron.
Non nutritive food components with potentials health effects –
polyphenols, tannins, phytate, phytoestrogens, carcinogenic compounds, lectins and saponins.
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