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.