Nutritional Requirements (27460) - Index
Total Topic Time: 1 hour 23 mins
Segment 1 What Is Nutrition? (10:21 mins)
- What is nutrition?
- What are carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, and minerals?
- Why is nutrition important?
- Nutritional needs throughout life
- Feeding issues and dietary requirements
Segment 2 Dietary Requirements (12:12 mins)
- How a person’s dietary requirements are made up
- Different types of dietary requirements
- How the Personal Plan impacts care
Segment 3 Healthy Eating (12:59 mins)
- How do we know what to eat?
- Food groups, serving sizes, and daily requirements
- Hydration, serving sizes, and daily requirements
Segment 4 Life Stages (13:11 mins)
- Birth to infancy: 0-23 months
- Child: 2 to 18 years
- Adult: 19 – 64 years
- Older adult: 65+ years
Segment 5 Health Impairment (15:52 mins)
- Eliminating or increasing certain foods
- Aging and health status
- Food for diabetics, heart failure, and blood pressure problems
- Food intolerances
Segment 6 Nutrition and Weight (9:27 mins)
- Low fat diets
- Weight reduction diets
- High calorie diets
- High protein diets
- Use of supplement feeding
Segment 7 Diet and Culture (9:00 mins)
- How religion and personal beliefs influence what a person can and cannot eat
- How culture dictates what a person eats
- How to support a person to eat to their beliefs and customs