7378 (v.6) Nutrition and Health 288

Area:

School of Public Health

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

4.0

** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **

Lecture:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Tutorial:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly

Prerequisite(s):

1643 (v.7) Human Biology 133 or any previous version
AND
1644 (v.7) Human Biology 134 or any previous version

Syllabus:

The diet and disease relationship, nutrition misinformation, cost of diet related disease, food and nutrition policy, dietary guidelines, food and nutrition systems, food production, trends in the available food supply, public perceptions and scientific reality of hazards in foods, food law, labelling and health claims, food additives, contaminants and microbiology, variables affecting food habits, methods for assessing food, methods of evaluation food habits, food selection guides, nutrient composition,recommended dietary intakes, Australian food habits, nutritional status during the lifecycle, nutrition and health inequalities, the role of diet in diet-related disease; energy and obesity, heart disease, fat and sodium, cancer, gastrointestinal disease, micro-nutrient disease, impact of nutrition education and promotion issues for the future.

** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **

Field of Education:

069901 Nutrition and Dietetics

Funding Cluster:

06 - Computing, Built Environment, Health

SOLT (Online) Definitions*:

Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year	Location	Period	Internal	Partially Online Internal	Area External	Central External	Fully Online
2006	Bentley Campus	Semester 2	Y			Y

Area External	refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.
Central External	refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area
Partially Online Internal	refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External
Fully Online	refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External