Unit I:
Introduction to nutrition
·Food exchange list
·Principles of planning diet
·Steps involved in planning diet
·Food guide pyramid
·Growth and development
·Nutritional requirements
·Advantages of breast feeding
·Artificial feeding or bottle feeding
·Infant milk substitute act 1992
·Preterm baby and nutritional requirements
·Feeding problems
·Weaning and supplementary foods
Nutrition during preschool age
·Growth and Development
·Growth monitoring
· Brain development in preschool age -Effect of nutrition
·Nutritional requirements
·Dietary guidelines
·Infection and nutrition related problems
Nutrition during school age
·Growth and development
·Nutritional requirements
·Dietary guidelines
·Factors influencing food intake
·Packed lunch
·School lunch programme
Nutrition during Adolescence
·Growth and development
·Nutritional requirements
· Dietary guidelines
·Eating disorders: Anorexia nervosa, Bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder
·Teen age pregnancy
Nutrition during Adulthood
·Nutritional requirements
·Dietary guidelines
·Importance of weight management
·Nutrition during menopausal stage
Nutrition for elderly
Demography of aging
·Process of ageing
·Nutritional requirements
·Dietary guidelines
·Nutrition related problems: osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, chronic diseases and complications
·Drug- food and nutrient reaction in elderly
Nutrition during Maternal stage
·Physiological changes
·Developmental stages of pregnancy
·Nutritional requirements
·Dietary guidelines
·Pica
·Complications of pregnancy and its management
Nutrition during Lactation period
·Physiology of lactation
·Prolactin reflex
·Let down reflex
·Nutritional requirements
·Human milk composition
·Lactational amenorrhoea
·Effect of breast feeding on maternal health
·Lactogogues