CNS/D 611 Personalised Nutrition Interventions (2018)

This module aims to develop the student’s understanding of personalised and individualised nutrition as an approach to the prevention and management of functional imbalances and chronic disease.  Scientific research continues to emerge on the potentially devastating effects of inappropriate nutrition, environmental toxins and lifestyle factors on a wide range of issues relating to human health throughout life.  Nutrigenomics also links nutrition to the genetic expression of health and illness.   Increasingly scientific discovery unfolds a genetic basis to a range of chronic degenerative disease afflicting the Western world. Students will develop an understanding of complexity in health and explore nutritional intervention strategies to support optimal function and health aging while taking into account social, cultural and ethical factors influencing an individual’s health and wellbeing.