- Fluid functions and requirements
- Fluid choices, sources and UK guideline recommendations
- Methods for avoiding dehydration
- The concept of Hyponatremia
- Macronutrient and micronutrient functions and requirements
- Food choices, sources and UK guideline recommendations
- Sports drinks
- Structure of digestive system
- Function of digestive system
- Metabolic processes
- Energy balance - intake and expenditure
- Dietary UK guideline recommendations
- Population factors
- Health considerations
- On-going changes and legal requirements of food labelling
- Dietary assessment techniques and analysis of findings

A range of formative and summative assessment methods will be used which are appropriate to the teaching and learning delivery method, mode of attendance and proposed weighting criteria used for this module, and as reflected within the Scheme and Award specifications.
Group discussions, group and individual tasks and activities to reinforce the module learning outcomes.

1. Timed assessment (addressing LO's 1and 2)

2. Case study (3000 words) (addressing LO's 3, 4 and 5)

Students must attempt all assessments and achieved an overall pass grade for the module

Formative feedback will be provided in a variety of forms, including written feedback on proposed titles, outline assignment plans and full drafts
Feedback may take place via full-class, group and individual tutorials

Book lists and reference resources will be located in module handbooks and updated annually (amendments confirmed at the Annual Planning Event)

Food Standards Committee - Manual of Nutrition (Stationery Office Books, 2008) ISBN 978011243116
McArdle, W.D., Katch, F.I. and Katch, V.L. (2009). Sport and Exercise Nutrition. Third Edition. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.
McArdle, W.D., Katch, F.I. and Katch, V.L. (2006). Exercise Physiology, Energy, Nutrition, and Human Performance. Sixth Edition. Baltimore, MD: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.
Schlenker, E. D. and Long, S. (2007). Williams¿ Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy. Ninth Edition. Mosby: St Louis, Missouri.
Wilmore, J. H. and Costill, D. L. (2004). Physiology of Sport and Exercise, 3rd edition. Human Kinetics: Champaign, Illinois.

WEBSITES:
- Australian Institute of Sport - www.ausport.gov.au
- The British Association of Sport and Exercise Science www.bases.org.uk
- British Nutrition Foundation www.nutrition-org.uk
- British Heart Foundations Statistical Website www.heartstats.org/homepage.asp
- Chief Medical Office-¿ Department of Health www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/MinistersandDepartmentLeaders/ChiefMedicalOfficer/index.htm
- Diabetes UK www.diabetes.org.uk/
- Department of Health: www.dh.gov.uk/en/index.htm
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: www.defra.gov.uk
- Food Standards Agency www.foodstandards.gov.uk
- Heart Statistics: www.heartstats.org/homepage.asp?id=6
- Institute of Food Research www.ifrn.bbsrc.ac.uk
- Medical dictionary: www.medic8.com/healthguide/dictionary.htm
- World Health Organisation - www.who.int/en/

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Guided Independent Study: (228)