MPH8213 Fundamentals of Nutrition

The course aims at developing basic understanding about public health nutrition, its effect on human health. This course encompasses physiological, biochemical and social aspects of food and discusses the relationship between metabolites and human health. The course also has multidisciplinary emphasis providing abroad base of knowledge and understanding of wide role of nutrition in sustaining health and preventing disease.

Course Aim

The course fundamental of nutrition is aimed to enable students to gain knowledge about interaction between food, body and health under normal and special circumstances.

Intended Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of the course students should be able to:

• Summarize and critically discuss both fundamental and applied aspects of nutrition. They will be able to explain the functions of specific nutrients in maintaining health, identify nutrient specific foods and apply principles from various facets of nutrition to solve practical world problems
• Use current information technologies to locate and apply evidence –based guidelines and protocols and get imparted with critical thinking to take leadership roles in flied of public health nutrition, die tics and nutritional counselling