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Unit of Study NUTR2001 - Nutritional Medicine (2023)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    UG Coursework Unit

  • Credit points

    12

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    On-campus students will be required to attend workshops online, and tutorials on-campus. Online students will be required to attend workshops and tutorials online. Students must have access to a computer and the internet to participate in online activities.

Unit description

Explores the fundamentals of nutritional medicine, emphasising holistic and evidence-based approaches to supporting health and wellbeing. Food and nutrients are examined via a social, ecological, biological and therapeutic lens to establish foundation knowledge and skills relevant to contemporary nutritional medicine practice. Students learn about macro- and micro-nutrients, including optimal dietary sources, recommended intakes, biochemical functions, and physiological roles in health and disease. Students also apply knowledge and skills by undertaking a dietary analysis and developing an evidence-based healthy diet plan.

Unit content

  • Food and nutrition fundamentals
  • Energy balance and systems-based overview of nutrients part A
  • Systems-based overview of nutrients part B
  • Systems-based overview of nutrients part C
  • Foundations of dietary analysis and planning
  • Contemporary issues in nutrition

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Online
Term1,4
Term1,4

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:

illustrate relationships between food, nutrition and the socio-ecological environment

recognise dietary guidelines, nutritional classifications, dietary sources of nutrients/energy, nutritional biochemistry and their roles in health and disease

implement a dietary analysis and devise an evidence-based healthy diet plan

apply knowledge of contemporary issues in nutrition to healthy eating

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment

  • Foodzone. (2022). Nutrition Experts. https://foodzone.io/

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment

  • Foodzone. (2022). Nutrition Experts. https://foodzone.io/

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.