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

2. 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

3. 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  

8. Pre disposing factors and principles of diet therapy for-
•    GIT diseases – Diarrhoea, Constipation, Peptic ulcer 
•    Liver disease  - Hepatitis
 

9.  Pre disposing factors and principles of diet therapy for-
•    Weight Management – Overweight and underweight
•    Febrile diseases – Typhoid and Tuberculosis