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Community Nutrition & Dietetics Guide

This document discusses community nutrition and its relationship to public health. It addresses the goals of improving health, nutrition, and wellbeing within communities. Community nutrition involves three main areas: people, policy, and programs. It uses planned interventions to promote health and change behaviors through health education at various levels of intervention. Community nutritionists work to build health awareness, change lifestyles, and create supportive environments for healthy changes while behaving ethically.

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Community Nutrition & Dietetics Guide

This document discusses community nutrition and its relationship to public health. It addresses the goals of improving health, nutrition, and wellbeing within communities. Community nutrition involves three main areas: people, policy, and programs. It uses planned interventions to promote health and change behaviors through health education at various levels of intervention. Community nutritionists work to build health awareness, change lifestyles, and create supportive environments for healthy changes while behaving ethically.

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Community Nutrition

Nutrition

The process of providing or obtaining the food necessary for health and growth.

Dietetics:

The branch of knowledge concerned with the diet and its effects on health, especially with the practical application of a scientific understanding of nutrition

Community Nutrition & Public Health

Discipline striving to improve the health, nutrition, and wellbeing of individuals and groups within communities The science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals.

Three areas
People

Policy

Programs

Community Interventions
Components of health Health promotion Changing human behavior through planned interventions

Levels of Intervention

Goals Increase quality and years of a healthy life Eliminate health disparities

Community Nutritionists

Build awareness of a health problem Change lifestyles Create a supportive environment for change Behave ethically

Course Title: COMMUNITY NUTRITION AND DIETETICS Course Code: FSN-410 Credit Hours: 3(2-1)
THEORY Community nutrition: foundation, status of Pakistani masses. Community nutrition programs: key features, benefits, planning, implementation, evaluation. Factors affecting: social, environmental. Nutritional status assessment: anthropometric measurements, dietary, biochemical, clinical. Nutritional requirements and recommendations: pre-school children, school children, adolescence, adults, pregnant and lactating women, geriatrics. Community nutrition and dietetics: introduction, food composition tables, nutritional databases. Balanced diet: importance in disease prevention, immune nutrition, dietary counseling.. Therapeutic diets: routine hospital diets, pre- and post-operative diets, special feeding methods. Diet designing: nutritional requirements, ideal calorie distribution, nutrient density, exchange diets, eating disorders. Diet for specific ailments: obesity, overweight, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, stomach and liver diseases. 9

PRACTICAL
Dietary reference intakes. Interpretation of food guide pyramids. Nutritional requirements and basal metabolism. Food intake assessment. Major nutrients estimation in different diets. Diet planning for healthy and diseased people. Planning of exchange diets. Diet for school children, geriatric and healthcare centers. BOOKS RECOMMENDED Singh J. 2008. Handbook of nutrition and dietetics. Lotus Press, Darya Ganj, New Delhi, India. Boyle, M.A. 2008. Community nutrition inaction: an entrepreneurial approach. Thomson Learning Wadsworth, New York, USA. Whitney, E. and Rolfes, S.R. 2005. Understanding nutrition. Thomson Learning Inc., Belmont, U.S.A. 10

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