2023-2024 / VETE2042-1

Nutrition and health

Duration

20h Th, 12h Pr, 8h Mon. WS

Number of credits

 Advanced Master in Specialised Veterinary Medicine (Registrations are closed)2 crédits 

Lecturer

Antoine Clinquart, Véronique Delcenserie, Caroline Douny, Marie-Louise Scippo

Coordinator

Marie-Louise Scippo

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the second semester

Schedule

Schedule online

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

  • Introduction
 
  • Main nutriments
  • Nutritional needs
  • Probiotics
  • Main components of food
  • Pathologies linked to food
  • Diet excluding food from animal origin
  • Functionnal food / Novel food / Food supplements
  • Tools used in nutrition education
  • Nutriotionnal labelling, health and nutritionnal claims

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

The aims of this course are the following : - training to background knowledge about the management of nutritional quality of food ;
- introduction to the legislation about main components of food from animal origin, and to their analytical methods;
- introduction to the legislation about nutritionnal labelling (composition of food, health and nutritionnal claims), novel food and food supplements; - relationship between health and food from animal origin consumption;
- presentation of some tools used in education to health

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

This master can be followed, after drawing up a file, to veterinaries os students with an equivalent graduation level. For questions in relation with admissions, please see the following link : http://www.ulg.ac.be/cms/a_15711/admissions

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Practical training in laboratory about analytical methods to measure humidity, proteins and lipids (etc) content in food

Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)

* theoretical courses
* practical training
* exercices

Recommended or required readings

Via e-campus

written exam and oral exam (with preparation)

Work placement(s)

Organisational remarks and main changes to the course

Contacts

Pr. Antoine Clinquart, en charge de l'enseignement · Pr. Véronique Delcenserie, en charge de l'enseignement · Pr. Marie-Louise Scippo, en charge de l'enseignement · Caroline Douny, assistante · Christine Bal, secrétaire Université de Liège, Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire, Département des sciences des denrées alimentaires,Quartier Vallée 2, Avenue de Cureghem 10 (B43b), 4000 LIEGE Belgique tél : +32-4-366 40 40 40 fax : +32-4-366 40 44 E-mail : antoine.clinquart@ulg.ac.be, veronique.delcenserie@ulg.ac.be, mlscippo@ulg.ac.be, cdouny@ulg.ac.be, christine.bal@ulg.ac.be - Website : http://www.dda.ulg.ac.be/

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