About Course
This basic nutritional science course is designed to quickly and effectively teach the fundamentals of healthy eating, physiology, dietetics, and modern diagnostic techniques. The course program is built around talking points, diagrams and practical examples. Participants gain knowledge that enables them to advise people on healthy eating, diet formulation and maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Course objectives
1. To provide basic knowledge of nutritional science, dietetics and physiology of nutrition.
2. To teach to prepare individualized diets in accordance with the physiological and pathological needs of the client. 3. To familiarize with modern methods of diagnosing metabolic and micronutrient disorders.
3. To familiarize with modern methods of diagnostics of metabolic and micronutrient disorders.
4. To prepare students for professional activity as consultants on healthy nutrition.
Course Tasks
– To analyze physiological and pathophysiological processes in the human body related to nutrition.
– To provide knowledge about the role of vitamins, minerals and macronutrients in human health.
– To familiarize with modern approaches to the correction of metabolic syndrome, diabetes, obesity, etc.
– To teach how to use methods of assessing the microelement composition of the body.
Course Content
Week 1: Fundamentals of Physiology and Nutritional Science
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1. Introduction to nutritionology and dietetics
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2. Physiology and pathophysiology of nutrition
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3. Metabolism and energy cycles
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4. Practice: methods of testing food intolerance