This course will enable students to get a greater understanding on Advanced Nutrition and lifespan. The Course will help the students to examine the nutritional needs of humans as they move through the life cycle stages from pre-conception through elder years. It also examines conditions that may alter or substantially impact nutrition at these stages; reviews programs which provide support for food or nutrition education at various life cycle stages; and uses case study data to assess nutrition issues/conditions. Students will assess adequacy of diets as well as design diets to meet needs during various life cycle stages. The course titled, ‘Advanced Nutrition and Life Span ’introduces the students of psychology the physiological basis for nutritional needs of normal, healthy humans as they move through life cycle stages: pre-conception, pregnancy, lactation, infancy, toddler and pre-school, child and preadolescent, adolescent, adult, and elderly. The students are introduced to locate, interpret, evaluate and use professional literature to make ethical evidence based practice decisions. The students are learned to do certain intervention to enhance wellness in a target population taking environmental, food and lifestyle choice into consideration.
Course Objectives
1. To familiarize to identify specific nutrient requirements for each stage of the life cycle.
2. To evaluate dietary intakes and feeding programs for individuals throughout the life cycle.
3. To enable the understanding of the importance of environment, feeding skills, psychosocial situations and other factors to total nutrition and eating habits through the lifecycle (development through aging).
4. To identify risk factors associated with major health problems over the life span and acquire appropriate knowledge for addressing through dietary and lifestyle choices.
- Teacher: Anjaly Renjan