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.