But du cours
Understand and improve knowledge of the links between diet, nutrition, and human health.
Acquis d'apprentissage visés
Generate an innovative product idea, analyze its environment, and identify a market opportunity Develop a functional specification Design and implement a complex experimental plan Analyze technical and financial feasibility Research resources, synthesize, and present the work in English using appropriate statistical tools
Prérequis
Nutrient needs and intake
Programme
- Organization of the digestive system, fate of food from ingestion to assimilation.
- Molecular bases and modeling of human digestion: description of digestion, absorption, and metabolism phenomena involved for each nutrient group
- Benefits of prebiotics and probiotics.
- Factors influencing bioavailability, nutritional value of a food. Implications for physiological functions and the concept of nutritional strategy.
- Dynamic mechanisms of postprandial regulation, glycemia, and lipemia.
- Understanding pathologies and health deterioration linked to diet such as type 2 diabetes, obesity, hypercholesterolemia, allergies and food intolerances, sarcopenia.
Modalités d'évaluation
Continuous assessment Individual knowledge evaluation Oral presentation of group work
Supports
Course and tutorial materials provided