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HL30515: Nutrition and health

[Page last updated: 03 May 2022]

Academic Year: 2022/3
Owning Department/School: Department for Health
Credits: 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits]
Notional Study Hours: 120
Level: Honours (FHEQ level 6)
Period:
Semester 2
Assessment Summary: CW 40%, EX 60%
Assessment Detail:
  • Coursework Lab Report (CW 40% - Qualifying Mark: 1)
  • Examination (EX 60% - Qualifying Mark: 1)
Supplementary Assessment:
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
Requisites:
Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit students will be able to demonstrate:
* Conceptual understanding of how the metabolism of different substrates are integrated.
* Systematic understanding of the different nutritional needs of a variety of populations.
* Critical evaluation of the impact of amount and patterns of food intake on human health.

Aims: To understand how nutrition impacts upon health and disease and identifying healthy nutrition behaviours.

Skills: Knowledge and understanding (taught, facilitated and assessed)
Intellectual skills (taught, facilitated and assessed)
Professional practical skills (taught and facilitated)
Written communication (facilitated and assessed)
Numeracy (facilitated and assessed)
Data acquisition, handling, and analysis (taught, facilitated and assessed)
Information technology (facilitated and assessed)
Working independently (facilitated and assessed)
Working in a group (facilitated)

Content: Substrate metabolism, Meal patterns and health, under- and over-nutrition, nutrition in specific populations (pregnancy, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, older individuals, ethnically diverse populations), nutrition and immune function.

Programme availability:

HL30515 is Optional (DEU) on the following programmes:

Department for Health
  • UHHL-AFB21 : BSc(Hons) Health and Exercise Science (Year 3)
  • UHHL-AKB18 : BSc(Hons) Health and Exercise Science with Professional Placement (Year 4)

Notes:

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