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Fashion Diets – Fashionable Diets Review

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

  • Lelovics Zsuzsanna

    associate professor,
    Department of Public Health Medicine

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 12 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OAF-DDI-T
  • 1 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Optional modul
  • spring
Prerequisites:

-

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 20

Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: ÁOK ÁJK BTK GYTK TTK

Topic

With the increasing rate of obesity worldwide, new fad diets are regularly appearing alongside healthy weight loss diets. Weight loss diets that are considered healthy are characterised by being free of extremes, trying to maintain the proportions of the dietary recommendations, encouraging moderate weight reduction. In contrast, fad diets tend to have a specific, defining character that makes them clearly distinguishable from general dietary habits and dietary recommendations accepted in nutrition science, and their spread is fashionably rapid. It is not uncommon for a fad diet to be associated with a person who is known as its founder, its 'inventor' - whether or not they are a specialist in nutrition science, although, more often, they are not. Specialists are careful to take into account the physiological needs of the body, ratio of energy-giving nutrients, as well as scientifically proven lifestyle, not ideology. Many fad diets are in vogue among the general public and their popularity grows for a while, before being replaced by newer, more promising ones.

Lectures

  • 1.

    Introduction. The healthy weight loss diet and its features.

    - Lelovics Zsuzsanna
  • 2.

    The dangers of following and applying extreme trends.

    - Lelovics Zsuzsanna
  • 3.

    Low-carbohydrate diets (e.g. the Atkins diet).

    - Nemeth Laura Gabriela
  • 4.

    Partitioning diets (split diets, food combining).

    - Nemeth Laura Gabriela
  • 5.

    Intermitting fasting and time restrictive feeding.

    - Nemeth Laura Gabriela
  • 6.

    High protein diets (e.g. Banting diet).

    - Nemeth Laura Gabriela
  • 7.

    Low protein diets (e.g. Pitkin diet).

    - Nemeth Laura Gabriela
  • 8.

    Meal replacements.

    - Nemeth Laura Gabriela
  • 9.

    Mediterrean and DASH diets.

    - Nemeth Laura Gabriela
  • 10.

    Importance of lifestyle and BLUE zone pattern.

    - Nemeth Laura Gabriela
  • 11.

    General characteristics of fad diets.

    - Nemeth Laura Gabriela
  • 12.

    Characteristics that may lead to the suspicion that a dietary system cannot be accepted without criticism. Summary, questions, discussion.

    - Nemeth Laura Gabriela

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

–

Literature developed by the Department

Neptun.

Notes

Notizen

Recommended literature

–

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

–

Mid-term exams

Written test.

Making up for missed classes

As discussed with the lecturer.

Exam topics/questions

Midsemester grade. No exam in exam period.

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

  • Nemeth Laura Gabriela
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