The assignments for this course are designed to help you develop the skills you will employ in daily life as a nutritional scientist these include presenting an academic poster, producing a paper and critical evaluation of a case-study research proposal. Lectures and practical classes on nutritional status that covers body composition, dietary assessment and energy expenditure and metabolism, as components of energy balance.
By the end of the course students should have a deep understanding of the following:
- Methods used to assess body composition and principles and application principles and assumptions relating to methods of assessing nutritional status
- The composition and nutritional analysis of foods and diets, with the use of food composition tables. Principles and assumptions and application of methods of dietary assessment and the validation of dietary intake data.
- The use of indirect calorimetry to measure resting energy expenditure and how to estimate RMR; alternative methods to assess physical activity
- Components of energy balance, energy expenditure, energy requirements and bioenergetics.
