CFN-2 Your Food and Its Utilization

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Free Online Course: CFN-2 Your Food and Its Utilization provided by Swayam is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 16 weeks long. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from Swayam. CFN-2 Your Food and Its Utilization is taught by Prof. Deeksha Kapur.

Overview
  • CFN-2 “Your Food and Its Utilization “deals with what happens to food in our body and its effect on our health. You will learn about the recommended dietary intakes, nutrient needs and how to meet these needs using the food guide. You will learn to distinguish the three nutritional states – normal nutrition, undernutrition and overnutrition. We will further examine nutrition through the different physiological state of life beginning with the pregnant mother and ending with the aged. Finally the importance of developing good food habits and having the right concepts of food is stressed in this course

Syllabus
  • Week

    Unit Titles

    Week 1

    Unit-1 Food, nutrition and nutritional status

    Week 2

    Unit-2 Recommended dietary and nutritional status

    Week 3

    Unit-3 Daily food guide and balanced diet

    Week 4

    Unit-4 Assimilation of food into the body

    Week 5

    Unit-5 Growth pattern and nutritional requirements

    Week 6

    Unit-6 Malnutrition and health

    Unit-7 Food energy, activity pattern and body weight

    Week 7

    Unit-8 Nutrition through the life cycle-pregnancy and foetal growth

    Week 8

    Unit-9 Nutrition through the life cycle-infancy

    Week 9

    Unit-10 Nutrition through the life cycle-preschool age

    Week 10

    Unit-11 Nutrition through the life cycle-the school age

    Week 11

    Unit-12 Nutrition through the life cycle-adolescence

    Week 12

    Unit-13 Nutrition through the life cycle-adulthood

    Week 13

    Unit-14 Nutrition through the life cycle-old age

    Week 14

    Unit-15 Assessment of nutritional status

    Week 15

    Unit-16 Our food habits

    Week 16

    Unit-17 Food misinformation