Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description



CODE EHL5612

 
TITLE Dietetics 1 and 2

 
UM LEVEL 05 - Postgraduate Modular Diploma or Degree Course

 
MQF LEVEL 7

 
ECTS CREDITS 5

 
DEPARTMENT Food Studies and Environmental Health

 
DESCRIPTION Learning Objectives

- To enable students to apply the principles of dietary management to disease conditions as well as special circumstances where nutrition management is required

Session Titles

- Food Sensitivity and Food Allergy
- Vegeterianism
- Diabetes and its management
- Hyperlipidaemia and its management
- Modified consistency diets
- Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition – Nutrition Support
- Hypertension
- Obesity and its Clinical management
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- Cancer, prevention and treatment
- Nutrition and athletic performance
- Eating Disorders
- Disorders of the mouth and oesophagus
- Disorders of the stomach and duodenum
- Intestinal surgery
- Disorders of the pancreas and liver
- Aids and HIV
- Renal disease
- Gout and renal stones
- Paediatric Nutrition

Reading List

- Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics
- Gable J. Counselling skills for dietetitans. Blackwell Bookshops
- Byrom SE (2002) Pocket Guide to Nutrition and Dietetics. Churchill Livingstone.
- Thomas B. Manual of Dietetic Practice 4th Edn (Jacki Bishop Editor)

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Examination Yes 100%

 
LECTURER/S Avril Collinson

 

 
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