Nutrition and Supplements

Code: DES14873M

3 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours

Scientific Area: Human Kinetics

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English, Spanish

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Saúde de qualidade - Assegurar uma vida saudável e promover o bem-estar para todos, em todas as idades.

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Igualdade de género - Alcançar a igualdade de gênero e empoderar todas as mulheres e meninas.

Reduzir as desigualdades - Reduzir as desigualdades dentro dos países e entre eles.

Learning Goals

Objectives:
- To know the dietary guidelines for health promotion
- Know the different weight management strategies
- Know the main effects of supplements from the perspective of physical exercise.
- Understand the mechanisms behind the various physiological adaptations that consuming different types of supplements can bring about.
- Collect and critically interpret relevant scientific information on the topics covered;

Competences:
- Develop competences with regard to knowledge of appropriate nutrition for health promotion with different populations
- Develop skills to apply correct dietary patterns and supplementation before, during and after physical exercise.
- Use methods to assess food intake and nutritional status in order to detect erroneous eating habits and modify behaviours for weight management.
- Identify and recommend legal and appropriate sports supplements

- Practical aspects for consulting information on the nutritional content of foods
- General metabolism/energy substrates
- Specific metabolism in exercise
- Specific foods before, during and after exercise/training/competition
- Energy regulation for weight control or weight loss
- Energy balance
- The relationship between diet and exercise
- Hydration
- Types of food supplements used and their effects
- Phosphocreatine, creatine, proteins, L-Carnitine

Teaching Methods

We advocate teaching centred on student learning and learning centred on the development of skills, which will focus on group discussion and interaction between students and the lecturer, namely carrying out practical tasks during teaching sessions and using the computer programmes provided, where they will develop skills that are transversal to other courses. Classes value information research, the interpretation of experimental results and a critical attitude and scientific rigour in students, and students must actively participate in the preparation and execution of work, in the group discussion of their results and in the preparation of individual work reports. Digital resources will also be used to manage communication through the Moodle platform, which is used to organise and make available materials relating to the teaching and learning process.

Assessment

Assessment will focus on the self-regulation of students' learning, where they receive feedback on their performance at different times throughout the lessons. The assessment includes questions asked in practical laboratory classes to stimulate reflection and the presentation and discussion by students of scientific articles relevant to the content worked on (30% of the grade), and the completion and discussion of a piece of work in which appropriate nutrition knowledge is applied to health promotion and appropriate dietary and supplementation patterns before, during and after physical exercise, in a population to be chosen by the student (70% of the grade). The work will essentially be carried out using resources available on Moodle.
Passing the course requires a final mark of 10 or more on the proposed tasks, on a scale of 0-20. The appeal assessment requires the completion and discussion of an assignment with 100% of the grade.