| 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) |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Avril Collinson |
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