CFN-2 “Your Food and Its Utilization “deals with what happens to food in our body and its effect on our health. You will learn about the recommended dietary intakes, nutrient needs and how to meet these needs using the food guide. You will learn to distinguish the three nutritional states – normal nutrition, undernutrition and overnutrition. We will further examine nutrition through the different physiological state of life beginning with the pregnant mother and ending with the aged. Finally the importance of developing good food habits and having the right concepts of food is stressed in this course
Overview
Syllabus
Week
Unit Titles
Week 1
Unit-1 Food, nutrition and nutritional status
Week 2
Unit-2 Recommended dietary and nutritional status
Week 3
Unit-3 Daily food guide and balanced diet
Week 4
Unit-4 Assimilation of food into the body
Week 5
Unit-5 Growth pattern and nutritional requirements
Week 6
Unit-6 Malnutrition and health
Unit-7 Food energy, activity pattern and body weight
Week 7
Unit-8 Nutrition through the life cycle-pregnancy and foetal growth
Week 8
Unit-9 Nutrition through the life cycle-infancy
Week 9
Unit-10 Nutrition through the life cycle-preschool age
Week 10
Unit-11 Nutrition through the life cycle-the school age
Week 11
Unit-12 Nutrition through the life cycle-adolescence
Week 12
Unit-13 Nutrition through the life cycle-adulthood
Week 13
Unit-14 Nutrition through the life cycle-old age
Week 14
Unit-15 Assessment of nutritional status
Week 15
Unit-16 Our food habits
Week 16
Unit-17 Food misinformation
Taught by
Prof. Deeksha Kapur
