Healthy and dietary
education includes a wide vision of educational strategies and environmental
support to encourage the adoption of healthy and sustainable food options and
eating patterns and go beyond giving information to enhance healthy options, as
well as integrated measures to facilitate and empower healthy food behaviours
and environments. It also includes nutritional education and health behaviours
for dealing and raising ransom, safety conditions and food environment, the
diseases caused by food and the importance of healthy nutrition in the
different stages of life.
Intended learning outcomes
The student will be able to:
Defines health and nutrition education
programs in all areas of home economics.
Distinguish between types of food in terms of
quality and nutritional value.
Compare positive and negative eating habits.
Apply
methods of obtaining healthy balanced food.
Deduces the role of food, health and the
environment in avoiding infection with many diseases
Teaching and learning methods
Theoretical lectures based
on presentation and discussion
Methods of assessments
Written tests, Relative
weight 50%-year work, final exam 50%