Syllabus
Physiological principles of nutrition
General aspects
Nutrients demand and nutrient recommendations
Basic substances and primary metabolites used in nutrition and energy production
- water
- saccharides and dietary fibre (types of saccharides and their content in food, regulation of glucose level, hypoglycaemia symptoms, dietary fibre soluble and insoluble in water)
- fats (fatty acids and fats in food, lipids, saturated and unsaturated acids, lipid digestion processes, fats and development of important diseases, modified fats)
- amino acids and proteins (content in food raw materials and food, importance) ? meat, dairy produce, emergent substances and undesirable microorganisms in animal products
Biocatalyzers ? vitamins and vitaminoids
Mineral matter including trace elements
Secondary metabolites in plant materials and food
- cereal products
- pulses
- oil seeds
- other seeds
- fruits from fam. Rosaceae
- fruits from fam. Malaceae
- fruits from fam. Vitaceae
- fruits from fam. Rutaceae
- fruits of tropical and subtropical plants
- vegetable from fam. Chenopodiaceae, Asteraceae, Brassicaceae, Alliaceae, Solanaceae
- spice plants (species from fam. Lamiaceae, Daucaceae, Zingiberaceae,...)
- seasoning additives (caffeine drugs)
Examples of compounds and their biological effect in application of alternative styles of life
- veganism
- vegetarianism
Annotation
The subject gives the basic information about nutrition useable in prevention and therapy of some diseases (cardiovascular system, cancerogenic diseases, obesity, neurodegenerative disorders), about compounds in food of plant origin. Because these substances started to play more important role after the year 2000, and namely especially in connection with the development of functional food (food supplements), ethnic and individual requirements of population and style of life (vegetarianism, veganism, on the way food, food in pregnancy), there exist the necessity to know these substances and also to quantify them.
One part of lectures is therefore focused on this theme.