Food and Nutrition in Health (NUTR1001/NUT00214) complete notes

About These Notes

These notes were listed under the unit code NUT00214 in 2020. It is now NUTR1001. They are complete notes based on textbook and lectures. Very clean and contain a tables and a lot of graphs where necessary to aid the reader visually.

Following topics are covered:

1. An overview of nutrition, diet and health, and food as medicine
2. Planning a healthy diet
3. Dietary carbohydrates: sugars, starches and dietary fibre
4. Dietary lipids: fatty acids, triglycerides, phospholipids and sterols
5. Dietary protein
6. Energy balance and body composition
7. Fitness and diet for physically active people
8. Weight management: overweight, obesity and underweight
9. Plant foods, animal food/fish/seafood
10. Key nutrients of concern in public health nutrition
11. Consumer concerns about food: food safety
12. Fundamentals of inter-professional practice
13. Consumer concerns about food: introduction to sustainable food practices

Topic # 14 which is Life cycle nutrition: pregnancy and lactation is not included in these notes. (You have to select either Topic 13 or 14, depending on your course of study.)