Educational guide 2013_14 Faculty of Chemistry

Learning aims

Objectives	Competences
	AC1 AC3 AC5 AC6 AR1 AR2 AR3 AR4	BC2
The main objective is to open the minds of the students to the all-pervading influence of interested misinformation based on economic gain by industrial giants.
To learn the need for a critical approach to nutritional “information”, allways looking for the actual scientific bases of the claims advertised.
To clearly distinguish the food-oriented and health-oriented information available, including the guides and norms produced by Academic Societies and Government bodies.
To discard and prove false the miracle remedies to common ailments based on food and diet manipulation.
To understand the need to learn nutrition and the long-term implication of diets and nutrients in health and disease.
To underdstand that eating is a physiological need and does not need constant checking and control, but a simple set of rules to prevent pathological situations.