Subject: Nutrition
Scientific Area:
Therapy and Rehabilitation
Workload:
60 Hours
Number of ECTS:
6 ECTS
Language:
Portuguese
Overall objectives:
Obtain knowledgments about human nutrition fundamentals and relationship between food, nutrition and health.
Syllabus:
1 - Nutrients and nutritional recommendations
2 - Food wheel and food groups
3 - Functional food and food additives
4 - Nutrition throughout the life cycle
5 - Nutrition and health
6 - Energy balance
Literature/Sources:
- Gonçalves Ferreira FA. Nutrição Humana. Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian; 2002.
- INSA: Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge. Tabela da Composição de Alimentos. Lisboa: INSA; 2006.
- Mahan LK, Escott-Stump S, Raymond JL. Krause?s Food, Nutrition, and Diet Therapy. 13th ed. St. Louis: W.B. Saunders; 2012.
- Ross AC, Caballero B, Cousins RJ, Tucker KL, Ziegler TR. Modern Nutrition in Health and Disease. 11th ed. Baltimore: Wolters Kluwer /Williams & Wilkins; 2014.
Assesssment methods and criteria:
The evaluation carried out in the ''Continuous Evaluation'' modality includes a test (30%), the realization of two individual works (25% each), and a group work (20%), with the possibility of a written final exam, which will focus on the totallity of the program taught, in case there is no use in the ''Continuous Evaluation" modality.