Data
Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2025-2026
Course director
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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: OSF-DDI-T
- 1 kredit
- Dentist
- Optional modul
- spring
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Course headcount limitations
min. 5 – max. 20
Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: ÁOK GYTK
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.
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The dangers of following and applying extreme trends.
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Low-carbohydrate diets (e.g. the Atkins diet).
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Partitioning diets (split diets, food combining).
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Intermitting fasting and time restrictive feeding.
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High protein diets (e.g. Banting diet).
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Low protein diets (e.g. Pitkin diet).
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Meal replacements.
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Mediterrean and DASH diets.
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Importance of lifestyle and BLUE zone pattern.
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General characteristics of fad diets.
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Characteristics that may lead to the suspicion that a dietary system cannot be accepted without criticism. Summary, questions, discussion.
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Practices
Seminars
Reading material
Obligatory literature
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Literature developed by the Department
Neptun.
Notes
Notizen
Recommended literature
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Conditions for acceptance of the semester
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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.