NUTN 202: History of Nutrition and Concepts in Nutrition

Pre-scientific ideas about foods; investigation of carbohydrates, fats and albuminous substances; food utilization, experiments with gelatin; pioneers in nutrition; animal nutrition; respiration and calorimetry; chemical analysis of foods; The discovery of vitamins; inorganic elements; fatty acids. Definitions, Nutrition, Nutritional science, nutrition professionals (Nutritionists, Dieticians, Food Scientist etc), Nutrition and Health; foods and food values, levels of nutritional status, factors influencing food choices, under-nutrition, over nutrition, Double-burden of disease, Nutritional problems in Ghana, Assessing nutritional adequacy of diets, Nutrition in eating disorders, Nutrition for exercise and sports performance, Nutrition guidelines for health promotion; Plant based diets.