NUTRITIONAL HYGIENE
IGIENE DELLA NUTRIZIONE
A.Y. | Credits |
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2016/2017 | 8 |
Lecturer | Office hours for students | |
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Giuditta Fiorella Schiavano | To be agreed with the teacher after lesson, via e-mail or telephon (0722-303546) |
Teaching in foreign languages |
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Course with optional materials in a foreign language
English
This course is entirely taught in Italian. Study materials can be provided in the foreign language and the final exam can be taken in the foreign language. |
Assigned to the Degree Course
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Learning Objectives
Educational goals:
- To give knowledge of the relevance of feeding and nutrition for human health
- To give knowledge on impaired health due to dietary deficiency, excess, or imbalance.
- To acquire knowledge on food quality and control and on italian and EU legislation.
Program
Program:
- Definitions and purposes of Hygiene Nutrition
- Nutritional epidemiology: general concepts, association and
effect measurement, bias, error; observational and experimental studies
- Feeding and Nutrition
- Food Pyramid
- The nutritional surveillance as a means of prevention: Diet and chronic degenerative diseases;life style risk factors for the development of chronic degenerative diseases.
- Body Mass Index (BMI)
- Epidemiology of obesity
- Cardiovascular Diseases
- Diabetes
- Cancer
- Osteoporosis
- Iodine deficiency
- Iron Deficiency Anemia
- Tooth Decay
- Nutritional safety and food quality
- Voluntary and involuntary food additives and contaminants
- Food and nutrition: impact on the immune response
- Adverse reactions to foods: allergies and intolerances
- Microbiota, probiotics, prebiotics and symbiotic
- Food contamination and its prevention
- Catering: systems and types
- Labelling legislation
- EU regulations.
- National Committee for Food Safety
- Healt claim: Regulation
- Microbial analysis and food safety management:GMP and HACCP systems, ISO guidelines
- Food safety legislation
- HACCP and practical application
- Codex Alimentarius
- Tracking and tracing,
- Indoor environmental hygiene (air, surface..) and food safety
- Detecting of foodborne pathogens: microbiological analysis, immunological techniques and modern methods based on molecular biology techniques like PCR, RFLP, DNA microarray assay.
Laborary experieces will complete the program with basic and advanced information.
Teaching Material
The teaching material prepared by the lecturer in addition to recommended textbooks (such as for instance slides, lecture notes, exercises, bibliography) and communications from the lecturer specific to the course can be found inside the Moodle platform › blended.uniurb.it
Supporting Activities
Lectures and Laboratory experiences.
Teaching, Attendance, Course Books and Assessment
- Teaching
Classroom lectures. For some special topics will be programmed some laboratory activities.
- Attendance
Students are highly advised to attend the course.
- Course books
- - Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases.Principles and Practices. Lee W.Riley. ASM PressWashington,
- - Molecular Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases. Editors: Wild C, Vineis P, Garte S.Wiley&Sons,Ltd.
- - Alimentazione e nutrizione umana. A.M.Costantini, C.Cannella, G.Tomassi. Il Pensiero Scientif
- - Nutrizione Individuo Popolazione. P.Binetti , M. Marcelli, R. Baisi. Società Editrice Universo
- Igiene degli alimenti e nutrizione umana. Roggi-Turconi. Edizioni Mediche Scientifiche Internazionali
- Assessment
Oral examination.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
Additional Information for Non-Attending Students
- Teaching
Students will follow the same directions given for those attending.
Classroom lectures. For some special topics will be programmed some laboratory activities.
- Course books
- - Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases.Principles and Practices. Lee W.Riley. ASM PressWashington,
- - Molecular Epidemiology of Chronic Diseases. Editors: Wild C, Vineis P, Garte S.Wiley&Sons,Ltd.
- - Alimentazione e nutrizione umana. A.M.Costantini, C.Cannella, G.Tomassi. Il Pensiero Scientif
- - Nutrizione Individuo Popolazione. P.Binetti , M. Marcelli, R. Baisi. Società Editrice Universo
- Igiene degli alimenti e nutrizione umana. Roggi-Turconi. Edizioni Mediche Scientifiche Internazionali
- Assessment
Oral examination.
- Disabilità e DSA
Le studentesse e gli studenti che hanno registrato la certificazione di disabilità o la certificazione di DSA presso l'Ufficio Inclusione e diritto allo studio, possono chiedere di utilizzare le mappe concettuali (per parole chiave) durante la prova di esame.
A tal fine, è necessario inviare le mappe, due settimane prima dell’appello di esame, alla o al docente del corso, che ne verificherà la coerenza con le indicazioni delle linee guida di ateneo e potrà chiederne la modifica.
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