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Description of Individual Course Units
Course Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleType of Course UnitYear of StudySemesterNumber of ECTS Credits
FS06.01.04 Healthy EatingElective123
Level of Course Unit
First Cycle
Objectives of the Course
To inform the students about the negative effects of inadequate and unbalanced nutrition on students, nutrients, food groups, healthy eating models, basic principles of healthy nutrition, healthy and balanced menu to gain skills in planning.
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1Food selection is effective in hunger, appetite, taste and learn and understand the interaction mechanisms between
2Learn effective economic factors in food choice
3Individual understands models developed to make healthy choices in food selection and reviews
4Learn effective psychological factors in food choice
5Learn effective social factors in food choice
Mode of Delivery
Normal Education
Prerequisites and co-requisities
None
Recommended Optional Programme Components
None
Course Contents
Importance of healthy food choices in adequate and balanced nutrition, biological determinants such as hunger, appetite, and taste, appetite mechanism, regulation and food choice, taste preferences and food choice ( sweet, salty, sour, bitter tastes), influence of genetic taste markers on food choice, economic determinants such as cost,income, availability, physical determinants such as access, education, skills (e.g. cooking) and time, social determinants such as culture, family, peers and meal patterns , psychological determinants such as mood, stress and guilt, food neophobia and learning to choice new foods, barriers to dietary and lifestyle change and models for changing food behaviour, factors affecting purchasing behavior of consumers, food labels and nutrient profiles, food choices in childhood, food choice and taste preferences in obesity, food choices and eating disorders.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTheoreticalPracticeLaboratory
1The importance of adequate food choice and a balanced diet
2Biological factors affecting food choice (hunger, appetite, taste etc.), The mechanism of appetite and food choice
3 People's taste perception and food selection (sweet, salty, sour and bitter foods tatları- selection), genetic taste markers
4Economic factors affecting food choice (cost, price, food accessibility, etc.).
5Physical factors affecting food choice (accessibility, training, skills and knowledge of cooking time, etc.)
6Social factors affecting food choice (culture, family, friends and meal scheme, etc.).
7Psychological factors that influence food choice I (mood, stress and guilt and so on.)
8MIDTERM EXAM
9Neofobi of food
10Diet and lifestyle changes to prevent the factors, factors affecting learning new food choice
11Factors affecting food choice when buying food, nutrition labels and nutrient pattern profiles
12The food selection in Childhood
13Food choice and taste in obesity
14Food choice and eating disorders
15Psychological factors that influence food choice II (mood, stress and guilt and so on.)
Recommended or Required Reading
Victor R. Preedy, Ronald Ross Watson and Colin R. Martin, 2010. Handbook of Behavior Food and Nutrition. Springer, Electronic Book. Prof. Dr. M. Emel ALPHAN, Sağlıklı Beslenme Sağlıklı Lezzetler, Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık 2006. Richard Shepherd,Monique Raats 2006. The Psychology of Food Choice. CABI, UK.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Midterm Examination1100
SUM100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning ActivitiesQuantityWeight
Final Examination1100
SUM100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities60
SUM100
Language of Instruction
Work Placement(s)
None
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesNumberTime (hours)Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination111
Final Examination122
Attending Lectures14228
Question-Answer14228
Self Study14114
Individual Study for Mid term Examination188
Individual Study for Final Examination199
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)90
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