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Diet Disease Relationships

Undergraduate | LTU-DTN301 | 2018

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Study the relationship between diet, health and disease. Analyse why food low in nutrition causes health conditions and reduces energy and performance.Discover how bacteria in food spreads, and find ways to prevent and manage diet related disease.

Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
Part of a degree
Duration
13 weeks

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Diet Disease Relationships

About this subject

  • At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

    1. analyse dietary patterns to identify foods/nutrients that may be protective in managing and/or preventing disease and explain the proposed mechanisms and evidence
    2. critically review the role of nutrition in the aetiology of given diseases to identify population groups at increased or reduced risk, and explain the associated epidemiological evidence and pathophysiology
    3. critically appraise a scientific paper examining the role of nutritional factors in the aetiology of a disease.

Entry requirements

Part of a degree

To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Core

  • LAT-HUN-DEG-2018 - Bachelor of Food and Nutrition

Prior study

You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:

Additional requirements

  • Other requirements -

    This subject is offered via Open Universities Australia. La Trobe University students can undertake this subject as part of a cross institutional enrolment under certain circumstances, and must seek approval from the Bachelor of Food and Nutrition Course Coordinator for eligibility. Due to the nature of the subject content and online delivery, enrolments are generally not permitted past the published OUA enrolment date for the study period.

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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Related degrees

Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses

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UndergraduateLAT-HUN-DEG

Bachelor of Food and Nutrition

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