CFN-2 Your Food and Its Utilization

CFN-2 “Your Food and Its Utilization “deals with what happens to food in our body and its effect on our health. You will learn about the recommended dietary intakes, nutrient needs and how to meet these needs using the food guide. You will learn to distinguish the three nutritional states – normal nutrition, undernutrition and overnutrition. We will further examine nutrition through the different physiological state of life beginning with the pregnant mother and ending with the aged. Finally the importance of developing good food habits and having the right concepts of food is stressed in this course

Week

Unit Titles

Week 1

Unit-1 Food, nutrition and nutritional status

Week 2

Unit-2 Recommended dietary and nutritional status

Week 3

Unit-3 Daily food guide and balanced diet

Week 4

Unit-4 Assimilation of food into the body

Week 5

Unit-5 Growth pattern and nutritional requirements

Week 6

Unit-6 Malnutrition and health

Unit-7 Food energy, activity pattern and body weight

Week 7

Unit-8 Nutrition through the life cycle-pregnancy and foetal growth

Week 8

Unit-9 Nutrition through the life cycle-infancy

Week 9

Unit-10 Nutrition through the life cycle-preschool age

Week 10

Unit-11 Nutrition through the life cycle-the school age

Week 11

Unit-12 Nutrition through the life cycle-adolescence

Week 12

Unit-13 Nutrition through the life cycle-adulthood

Week 13

Unit-14 Nutrition through the life cycle-old age

Week 14

Unit-15 Assessment of nutritional status

Week 15

Unit-16 Our food habits

Week 16

Unit-17 Food misinformation