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Fun in Health Science

University of Macau via XuetangX

Overview






This course introduces important topics related to health in daily-life including the effect of environment, nutrition, and genetics on health, healthy aging, and mental and physical well-being. Biotechnology innovations and lifestyle modifications that can impact human health will be presented with the underlying scientific basis provided. The course will be taught from a health science perspective. Students will also participate in educational activities related to health sciences that illustrate and enforce the concepts learned in class. These will include a virtual laboratory tours, virtual visits to restaurants, and exercise videos. The course content includes instructional videos which have been designed specifically for this course. After the course, students should be able to understand how factors affect their health, design interventions and lifestyle modifications to improve their health and well-being, and finally to have tools to be able to implement changes that will lead to a longer and healthier life. 

 

 






Syllabus

  • Module 1: Introduction - Factors
    • Lecture 1.1. What factors affect your health ?
    • Lecture 1.2. Genes, Environment, Lifestyle
  • Module 2: Introduction - Exercise
    • Lecture 2.1.What happens to our body when we exercise ?
    • Lecture 2.2 What are the benefits of exercise ?
  • Module 3: Introduction - Sleep
    • Lecture 3.1 The Science of sleep
    • Lecture 3.2. Getting good sleep
  • Module 4: Introduction - Nutrition
    • Lecture 4.1 Basic Nutrition
    • Lecture 4.2 Planning a Healthy Diet
  • Module 5: Nutrition Labels
    • Lecture 5.1 Nutrition Labels
  • Module 6: Introduction – Fad diets
    • Lecture 6.1 Calculate Body Mass Index
    • Lecture 6.2 Nutrition – Fad diets
  • Module 7: Nutrition - Fake meats
    • Lecture 7.1 Nutrition - Fake meats
  • Module 8: Nutrition - Sirtuins
    • Lecture 8.1 Nutrition - Sirtuins
  • Module 9: How to maintain your weight ?
    • Lecture 9.1 How to maintain your weight ?
  • Module 10: Introduction - Happiness
    • Lecture 10.1 Science of Happiness
    • Lecture 10.2 How to make myself more happy ?
  • Module 11: How to measure happiness ?
    • Lecture 11.1 How to measure happiness ?
  • Module 12: Introduction - Mental Health
    • Lecture 12.1 What is Depression ?
    • Lecture 12.2 How to treat Depression ?
  • Module 13: Introduction - Youth Health
    • Lecture 13.1 Health Risks for Youth
    • Lecture 13.2 Social Media and Health
  • Module 14: Youth Health statistics - Pedometer
    • Lecture 14.1 Youth Health statistics - Pedometer
  • Module 15: Introduction - Aging and Longevity
    • Lecture 15.1 Science of Aging and Longevity
  • Module 16: Extending lifespan
    • Lecture 16.1 Extending lifespan
  • Module 17: Skin Health
    • Lecture 17.1 Skin Health
    • Lecture 17.2 Protecting your skin
  • Module 18: Introduction – A Healthy Life
    • Lecture 18.1 Summary and Conclusion

Taught by

Garry Wong

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