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Human Nutrition and Dietetics

Data

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

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 24 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 24 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OXF-ETA-h-T
  • 2 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Optional modul
  • both
Prerequisites:

-

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 30

Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: ETK TTK

Topic

Medical students may find that this course will help them to coordinate their knowledge of the biological, physiological and clinical aspects of human nutrition.

The lectures will include the following topics:

Physiology of nutrition, general description of the foods most commonly eaten by man. Diet and physiological status (pregnancy, lactation, childhood, old age, exercise, sport and athletics). Clinical nutrition.

The course will be divided into 5 parts:

Part I gives an account of the physiology of nutrition

Part II gives a general description of the foods most commonly eaten by man

Part III describes those diseases that are known to be primarily due to faulty nutrition

Part IV deals with the role of defective diets in contributing to the onset of general diseases which are not primarily nutritional in origin

Part V deals briefly with the modifications necessary in normal diets to meet special circumstances of pregnancy, lactation, childhood, athletic training.

Lectures

  • 1. Energy metabolism - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 2. Energy balance - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 3. Digestion, absorption - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 4. Digestion, absorption - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 5. Carbohydrates - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 6. Carbohydrates - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 7. Fats - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 8. Fats - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 9. Proteins - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 10. Proteins - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 11. Vitamins - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 12. Vitamins - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 13. Minerals - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 14. Minerals - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 15. Water and body fluids - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 16. Alcohol - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 17. Nutrition during pregnancy and lactation - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 18. Nutrition for growth and development - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 19. Nutrition and physical fitness - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 20. Nutrition and physical fitness - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 21. Nutrition and weight management - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 22. Eating disorders - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 23. Written test - Vértes Zsuzsanna
  • 24. Written test - Vértes Zsuzsanna

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

-

Literature developed by the Department

lecture notes

Notes

-

Recommended literature

Garrow James: Human Nutrition and Dietetics

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

-

Mid-term exams

Small presentations

Making up for missed classes

As above

Exam topics/questions

Written test

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

Rólunk