The course covers several diseases listed hereby:
Dietary recommendations and healthy diet
Obesity
Diabetes mellitus
Dyslipidemia
Kidney diseases
Malnutrition
Malabsorption
Digestive surgery
Cancer
Osteoporosis
Pregnancy
Aging
Food allergy and intolerance
This course has two main goals :
1) Present the role of nutrition in the development and prevention of the most frequent diseases. In this part, nutrition is considered at the population level.
2) Present the role of nutrition as a therapeutic tool to manage several diseases. In this part, nutrition is considered at the individual level.
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
