FB2NED-Nutritional Epidemiology and Dietary Assessment

Module Provider: Food and Nutritional Sciences
Number of credits: 10 [5 ECTS credits]
Level:5
Terms in which taught: Autumn / Spring term module
Pre-requisites:
Non-modular pre-requisites:
Co-requisites: FB2NS Nutritional Science
Modules excluded:
Current from: 2023/4

Module Convenor: Prof Gunter Kuhnle
Email: g.g.kuhnle@reading.ac.uk

Type of module:

Summary module description:

Dietary assessment is the bedrock on which nutrition research rests and it is therefore crucial to understand the methods currently used. Nutritional epidemiology is one of the key techniques used to investigate associations between nutrition and health, and it is important to understand the underlying methodology. This module introduces dietary assessment methods and uses current data to demonstrate different techniques of nutritional epidemiology.Ìý

Aims:

The aim of this module is to introduce various dietary assessment methods and their application in nutritional epidemiology.

Assessable learning outcomes:

On completion of the course, students will be able to assess diet and lifestyle using different assessment methods. Students will also be able to select the most appropriate methods and assess their advantages and disadvantages. Moreover, students will be able to understand and appraise different methods used in nutritional epidemiology. In particular, learning outcomes are:

• Understand food composition data


• Understand concepts of dietary assessment


• Assess dietary intake with different methods


• Interpret results from dietary assessment


• Interpret results from epidemiological studies

Additional outcomes:

Students will have an understanding of the difficulties of dietary and lifestyle assessment and therefore a better appreciation of strengths and limitations of different modules.

Outline content:

In this module, students will learn to use different dietary and lifestyle assessment instruments. They will use different assessments and assess their strengths and limitations.

Global context:
Nutrition is an important modifiable risk factor for many chronic diseases, and the accurate assessment of diet and lifestyle factors is extremely important.

Brief description of teaching and learning methods:
This course comprises mainly practical's, seminars and self-directed learning.