Food, Nutrition, and Health
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Course Description
COURSE CONTENT
- Functional foods
- Human defence mechanisms
- Sustainable nutrition
- Health claims
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- identify mechanisms involved in organism defence (redox, inflammation, immunity) and their connection with diet
- choose proper foods in modulation of oxidative stress and inflammation
- recognise the role of proper dietary principles, foods and supplements in prevention of degenerative diseases
- define and choose specific biomarkers and experimental models in intervention research involving human participants
- estimate ecological footprint and development of sustainable food in nutritional assessment research