Content
- Lectures: 40 hours
- Seminar: 10 hours
- Exercises 10 hours
- Independent work: 120 hours
Subject carrier
Description
Introduction into nutrition:
• Body composition and food composition
• Nutrients
• Basic concepts in nutrition
Basics of nutrition physiology:
• Digestion, absorption, distribution of nutrients in the body
The role of macro- and micronutrients in nutrition:
• Macronutrients: carbohydrates, proteins, lipids,
• meal composition
• Micronutrients: fat soluble vitamins, water
• soluble vitamins, macroelements, microelements
Water in nutrition
Alcohol
Basics of meal planning
Obesity and nontransissible chronic diseases:
• Risky nutritional habits, western diet
• Planning weigth loss
Nutrition and exercise for health:
• Mediterranean diet as an example of a healthy diet
• Role of schedules, environment, exercise and attitude to food in nutrition and regulation of metabolism.
• Health and physiological aspect of physical activity
• Biological development of child, physical, motor and health characteristics of children and youth, and the biological state of adults, elderly people and special groups of people,
• the action of the human organism in the movement in interaction with the living and working environment and the consequences of the interaction of the environment and man.
