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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
This course covered the components of food and how they are digested using enzymes. It looked at food labelling and how energy obtained from food is measured. It considered healthy eating advice in the UK and elsewhere and why there are ever increasing levels of obesity in the world. The course took a scientific approach, covering some basic physics, chemistry and biology, and a little maths. There were some optional experiments to do, using easily available materials, to support understanding.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Dave Hall
University Secretary
The Open University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Demonstrate and understand how food is processed and then used in the body.
- Describe and know about food allergies and intolerances.
- Apply knowledge to understand healthy eating advice and identify how it varies in different countries.
- Interpret and understand the basic components of food.
- Discuss and be able to make sense of food labels and peform basic calculations of energy in food.
- Describe and understand possible reasons for the current obesity epidemic.
- Be able to conduct simple experiments using easily available materials.
Syllabus
- Basic chemistry of protein, fat and carbohydrate components of food
- Basic biology of the digestive system, how enzymes function and how products of digestion are used
- Measurements of nutrients in prepared food and interpretation of food labels
- Measurement of the energy available from food
- Constituents of a healthy diet and analysis of dietary advice
- The obesity epidemic and aspects of different diets throughout the world
Issued on 24th February 2017
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