NORMAL AND THERAPEUTIC NUTRITION

1. Nutrition through Life cycle

• Infants: Growth and development, nutritional requirements, colostrum feeding, exclusive breast feeding, breast feeding, bottle feeding, comparison of human and cow’s milk, complementary foods – commercial and home prepared, infant feeding practices, IMS Act, establishment of good feeding habits
• Preschool children:  Growth and development, nutritional requirements, promoting good food habits
• School children: Growth and development, nutritional requirements, promoting good food habits
• Adolescents: Growth and development, nutritional requirements, eating disorders – anorexia nervosa, bulimia, skipping meals and snacking

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. Nutrition during adulthood and during conditions of various physiological changes

• Adults: nutritional requirements
• Pregnancy: Physiologic and biochemical changes, pre-maternal nutrition, prenatal nutrition and its impact on the growth and development of the fetus nutritional requirements, complications of pregnancy
• Lactation: Physiologic effects, socio-economic effects, psychological aspects, nutritional requirements
• Old age: Physiologic and biochemical changes, nutritional requirements, factors influencing food habits, nutrition related health problems – osteoporosis, other health problems – constipation, anemia and hypertension

Definition and role of Dietitian in Health care

4. Nutritional Care Process (NCP)

5. Types of Dietary adaptation for Therapeutic needs

6. Routine Hospital diets – Fluid diet, Full fluid diet, Soft diet

7. Mode of feeding – Oral, enteral and parentral

Pre disposing factors and principles of diet therapy for-

• GIT diseases – Diarrhoea, Constipation, Peptic ulcer 
• Liver disease  - Hepatitis

.  Pre disposing factors and principles of diet therapy for-

• Weight Management – Overweight and underweight
• Febrile diseases – Typhoid and Tuberculosis