FASTING, NUTRITION & DIETETICS

Semester: II
Sub Code: DNYT T 204
Credits: 6
Hours/Wk: 6
Total Hrs: 90
Exam Marks: 50
IA Marks: 50
Exam Duration: 3 Hrs

A Fasting:(20 hours)
•Philosophy and History, fasting versus starvation, methods of fasting, physiological effects of fasting, Indication and contra-indications of fasting.
• Method of breaking fast.
• Fasting in Health & Disease.
• Introduction to Nutrition – History of Nutritional medicine, various concepts of nutrition according to Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Homoeopathy.
• Importance of Nutrition in modern medicine.

B. Nutrition And Dietetics(40 hours )
1. Introduction to Nutrition.
History of Nutrition, Food, Nutrition/introduction and definitions, The Nutritional basis of life.

2. Components of food and their classification:
Carbohydrates, Protein, Lipids, Vitamins, Minerals and Trace elements.

3. Food groups:
Cereals, Pulses, Millets and coarse grains other vegetables Fruits Honey Green leafy vegetables Roots and tubers Fats and oils Milk and milk products Sugar and Jaggery Nuts and oil seeds Spices and Condiments.

4. Toxins in Food adulteration and health hazards.

5. Public Health and Nutrition.
• Education in Nutrition.
• National Nutritional programme.
• Balanced diet according to Naturopathy for different groups and ages.
• Eliminative, Soothening and Constructive diet according to Naturopathy.

6. Nutrition in Health
• Human nutritional requirements – When, what and how much to eat  
• Nutrition in Pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood and adolescence
• Nutrition and immunity

7. Common herbs, spices, their curative properties and how to use them

8. Nutritional management in acute and chronic diseases, healing crisis and disease crisis.

9. Nutritional management of Sports persons & body builders.