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Unit of Study NUTR1001 - Nutrition for Health and Physical Activity (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

Unit description

Provides an introduction to the role of nutrition for health and physical activity. The unit considers common dietary assessment and analysis methods. It also explores healthy eating guidelines and their application to support general health, well-being, and physical activity.

 

 

Unit content

  1. Nutrition planning and assessment foundations
  2. Food and nutrients: carbohydrate and protein
  3. Food and nutrients: lipids, micronutrients and alcohol
  4. Energy balance, body composition and health
  5. Nutrition advice in action
  6. Nutrition to support exercise and sport performance and recovery
 

 

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
Term3
Term3
Gold Coast
Term3
Term3
Lismore
Term3
Term3
Online
Term2,3
Term2,3

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

demonstrate a basic nutrition assessment using common methods

explain the roles of food/nutrients, energy balance and body composition in health and physical activity

apply the Australian healthy eating guidelines to provide general advice on nutrition, including strategies to support health and physical activity

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