 | | Basic concepts of human nutrition including a brief account of nutrients and their food sources as well as their body requirements in the different stages of the life cycle. Planning the balanced and healthy diet and its role in human health and disease. Malnutrition as influenced by local food habits and a brief account of the world food problems. Food safety and sources of food contamination. | BSc, All levels |
| | Basic concepts of nutrition, nutrients and their metabolism in the living body, focusing on the fate of nutrients and their interrelationships, energy release and disease symptoms of malnutrition. | BSc, Second year |
| | Applications of human nutrition concepts emphasizing the integration of the effect of nutrient and nutritional status of metabolic and physiological function at cellular, tissue, organ and whole body level in humans as related to health and disease; regulation of metabolic homeostasis; health claims and their nutritional implications; dietary standards and their methods of determination under different physiological conditions; drug- nutrient interactions and nutrition and physical fitness. | BSc, Third year |
| | Application of the basic human nutritional principles in the selection of normal and therapeutic diets, emphasizing the elements of nutritional care process, concepts of dietary guides, criteria of the healthful diet, interviewing and counseling techniques and role of the dietitian, common hospital therapeutic diets and major disease requiring diet therapy. | BSc, Third year |
| | An advanced level study of the biochemical aspects of carbohydrate, lipid, and protein utilization by man, with emphasis on their interrelations and uniqueness of individual organs and tissues in metabolism, as well as their homeostatic regulation. | MSc |
| | An advanced level study of the defects of normal biochemical and physiological regulatory processes in nutrient-based disease states, emphasizing the pathophysiological changes in disease - affected organs. These states include obesity, diabetes (metabolic syndrome), selected gastrointestinal diseases, cardiovascular diseases, liver and pancreas diseases, with focus on most recent practices of nutritional status assessment and dietary planning, especially in chronic diseases and organ transplant.
| MSc |
| | Oral reports and discussions of current research and developments in nutrition, designed to broaden understanding of problems and stimulate research. | MSc |
| | Oral reports and discussions of current research and developments in nutrition, designed to broaden understanding of problems and stimulate research. | PhD |
| | An advanced study, based on the physiological and biochemical principles of protein digestion, absorption, metabolism and regulation; certain physiological, biochemical, and nutritional problems concerned with proteins and amino acids such as use of amino acids as supplement in health and disease; brief account of protein biosynthesis; study of various methods used in the nutritional evaluation of food proteins, taking into consideration human protein requirements. | PhD |
| | An advanced level study of the physiological molecular and biochemical aspects of lipids including digestion, absorption and metabolism and their regulatory aspects. It also involves the study of the regulatory and metabolic aspects of the cell membrane on both structural and functional levels as well as the study of certain lipid-related physiological, genetic and biochemical problems. | PhD |
| | Fundamentals related to nutrients and energy with respect to digestion, absorption, metabolism, functions, dietary sources, diseases of malnutrition and requirements throughout the life cycle; assessment of nutritional status, formulation and planning of diets in the management of common diseases of different body systems, nutrition counseling, and use of therapeutic diets and selected chronic diseases of affluence. | BSc, Third Year |
| | Study of the basics of scientific research; identification of research problem; formulation of its hypothesis, data collection and statistical analysis; ethics in scientific research; training in writing a research proposal. | MSc |
| | An advanced level study of the physiological, molecular and biochemical aspects of carbohydrates including digestion, absorption and metabolism and their regulatory aspects; as well as the study of
certain carbohydrate-related physiological, genetic and biochemical problems. | PhD |
| | This course promotes effectiveness of scientific readings and oral communication, increases knowledge of scientific research, and reviews content information in selected topics in human nutrition and dietetics. It explores how scientific articles are constructed, how scientific arguments are developed, and how research findings are presented, discussed and interpreted. Students learn to engage the scientific literature critically, to read and analyze efficiently, and to cite and report works of others responsibly and accurately. | BSc, Fourth Year |
| | An advanced level study of substrate and thermodynamics in metabolism; molecular, cellular and whole body energy metabolism and its regulation and methods of measurement; regulatory aspects of energy intake, energy expenditure, and body energy stores; white and brown adipose tissue cellularity and metabolic activity; thermogenic mechanisms and their hormonal regulation;
biochemical and physiological aspects of fed-starve cycle and its nutritional interaction and metabolic consequences; homeostasis of body weight regulation; thermogenic defects in obesity and
the effect of relevant polymorphism, dieting and exercise. | PhD |
