Study Programmes 2015-2016
VETE2042-1  
Nutrition and health
Duration :
20h Th, 12h Pr, 8h Mon. WS
Number of credits :
Specialised master in specialised veterinary medicine2
Lecturer :
Antoine Clinquart, Véronique Delcenserie, Marie-Louise Scippo
Language(s) of instruction :
French language
Organisation and examination :
Teaching in the second semester
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite :
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Course 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 course :
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) :
* theoretical courses
* practical training
* exercices
Recommended or required readings :
Via e-campus
Assessment methods and criteria :
written exam and oral exam (with preparation)
Work placement(s) :
Organizational remarks :
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, Bld de Colonster, 20. Sart-Tilman, B43bis, Liège, Belgique tél : +32-4-366 40 40 40 fax : +32-4-366 40 44 E-mail : antoine.clinquart@ulg.ac.be, v(georges.daube@ulg.ac.beeronique.delcenserie@ulg.ac.be, )mlscippo@ulg.ac.be, cdouny@ulg.ac.be, christine.bal@ulg.ac.be - Website : http://www.dda.ulg.ac.be/