| Responsible Department | Department of Human Nutrition | ||||||||||
| Course Dates | 3 June to 14 June 2013. | ||||||||||
| Course Abstract | The objective of the course is to give an introduction to various nutrition research challenges. In this context the course will give insight into the methodologies used in human nutrition research. Teaching at the course will be based on relevant debates in the nutrition research which are used as an approach to give knowledge about current intake, recommendations, functions, metabolism of nutrients as well as methods behind the present knowledge. | ||||||||||
| Course Registration | By email to Marianne Støckel mas@life.ku.dk. | ||||||||||
| Deadline for Registration | 2 April 2013. | ||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||
| Level of Course | PhD course | ||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||
| Restrictions | Minimum MSc. Target group: PhD students and post docs working with topics related to Human Nutrition and using research methods varying from human intervention studies, nutrition epidemiology, human nutrition animal models, in vitro cell cultures. | ||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||
| Topics covered are: - Quantitative and qualitative methods in estimating food intake and preferences - Nutrient recommendations - Metabolism and function of dietary nutrients - Evaluation of evidence related to diet and health - Dietary intake vs requirements and recommendations - Content of nutrients in food. Factors affecting nutrient content, methods used to determine content. Use of food databases vs chemical analyses - Animal and cell studies in human nutrition research - Evidence based research. Common challenges and pitfalls using observational and experimental human studies - Common recommendations or Individualised diets. (Nutrigenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, age, sex, race) - Low fat, low carb, high protein or other dietary religions - Total fat vs fat quality - Dietary supplements, food enrichment or varied diets - Fetal programming, diet and microbiota - Five-a-day. Polyphenolics or fibre? - Information campaigns vs sensory and psychological barriers - Ethics and dissemination to the public of human nutrition science results | |||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||
| Teaching will be in the form of lectures, student presentations, seminar discussions, group work and journal clubs. | |||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||
| Please see course abstract. | |||||||||||
| Course Material | |||||||||||
| Relevant material will be provided to course participants. | |||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||
| Susanne Gjedsted Bügel, shb@life.ku.dk, Department of Human Nutrition/Bioactive Foods and Health, Phone: 353-32490 Lotte Lauritzen, ll@life.ku.dk, Department of Human Nutrition/Paediatric Nutrition and International Nutrition, Phone: 353-32508 Camilla Trab Damsgaard, ctd@life.ku.dk, Department of Human Nutrition/Paediatric Nutrition and International Nutrition, Phone: 353-32221 | |||||||||||
| Other Lecturers | |||||||||||
| Permanent staff members, post doctoral students and PhD students from Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports , SCIENCE, University of Copenhagen and external contributors. | |||||||||||
| Course Fee | |||||||||||
| No fee for PhD students under the Open Market in Denmark and NOVA-partners. Other participants are to pay a course fee of 1,000 EUR. All participants have to pay 150 EUR for course costs. | |||||||||||
| Course Costs | |||||||||||
| 150 EUR for course material. | |||||||||||
| Type of Evaluation | |||||||||||
| Presentation of relevant issues regarding own research. Critical presentation of relevant paper within own research field. Group discussions and evaluation of scientific input in a plenum discussion. | |||||||||||
| Work Load | |||||||||||
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| Other Remarks | |||||||||||
| A minimum of 10 participants will be required to run the course. | |||||||||||