Nutrition Therapy for Physiological Stress and Acute Diseases

Students enrolled in this course will study the dietary management of acute diseases, in which the diet plays an important role in the treatment, or in the prevention of such diseases. The course covers the role of nutrition in the management of metabolic stress conditions (e.g. burns, surgery, injuries, cancer) and the metabolic changes that occur after exposure to a metabolic stress stimulus (e.g. the production and functions of free radicals, cytokines and acute-phase proteins).