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BRESCIA COLLEGE

Foods & Nutrition Program

 

FOODS AND NUTRITION 021 Dr L A Piché

Nutrition for Modern Living 2004-2005

 

COURSE OUTLINE

 

PURPOSE: To provide a general overview of the basic principles concerned with human nutrition and to develop a better understanding of the facts and myths that surround the subject of FOOD and NUTRITION in contemporary society.

 

FORMAT: Fourteen (14) hours per week for 6 weeks (May 14 - June 21, 2001). Lectures, typewritten assignments, oral presentations.

 

TEXT: Sizer, Frances & Whitney, Eleanor. 2003. Nutrition, Concepts and Controversies, 8th ed. West/Wadsworth Publishing Company, Belmont, CA.

 

CLASSROOM: Room 18, St. James Bldg, Brescia College

 

CLASS TIME: Monday to Thursday 9:00 am - 12:30 noon

 

MARKING:

Assignment 1, Part I, Preliminary Literature

Review Due: Mon, May 28

Assignment 2, 3-day food record 20% Due: Thurs, June 07

Mini assignments / workshops 10 random

Mid-Term 30 Thurs, May 31th

Assignment 1, Part II, Research

Report / class presentation 10 Presentations: Week 5

[Reports are due following Class Presentations]

Final Exam 30 TBA

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Total 100%

 

DEPARTMENT

POLICY: 1. Assignments are due at the time (within lecture period) and date indicated in the course outline. The mark will be reduced by 20% on assignments submitted within seven (7) days of the due date. Assignments submitted after seven (7) days will not be accepted for marking.

 

2. There will be no make-up exams for students who miss an exam except with proper documentation to show a confirmed personal illness or a death in her/his immediate family.

 

3. The professors are only available for questions and individual consultation before and after class. At other times, messages may be left with the department office (432-8353 ext. 28254).

 

 

 

 

 

LECTURE SCHEDULE:

 

WEEK TOPIC CHAPTER

 

Week 1 * Introduction & class organization,

[May 14 - 17] assignments

* Food choices and human health 1

* Natural Health Products & NHPD

 

* Nutrition standards and 2

guidelines (Stages I-IV)

* Assignment 2: 3-day food record (refer to separate guidelines)

 

Week 2 * The remarkable human body 3

[May 21 - 24] * Carbohydrates 4

 

May 28, Have Preliminary Literature Review of for Assignment I approved

 

* Lipids/Fats 5

 

Week 3 No Class May 21, Victoria Day 6

[May 28 - 31] * Protein

* Vitamins (A, C, Folate) 7

 

* Minerals (Ca, Na, Iodine, Fe) 8

and water

* Alcohol

 

May 31 (Thursday) Mid-Term EXAM (2.5 hours)

 

Week 4 * Energy balance and weight control 9

[June 04 - 07] * Nutrition and physical activity 10

 

 

LECTURE SCHEDULE:

 

WEEK TOPIC CHAPTER

 

Week 4 * Nutrition and disease prevention 11

Cont=d

 

June 07, Submit Assignment 2

 

Week 5 * Nutrition and disease prevention 11 planning

[June 11 - 14] * Class presentations (Refer to separate guidelines)

 

Submit Assignment 1 : Final Report

 

* Life cycle nutrition: mothers and 12

and infants

* Life cycle Nutrition: child, teen and 13

older adults

 

Week 6 * Food safety, Biotechnology 14

[June 18 - 21] * Hunger and the global 15

environment

 

TBA ** FINAL EXAM (2.5 hours) **

 

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