Course curriculum

  • 1

    The Six Major Nutrients

    • There are Six Essential Nutrients

    • Video - Importance of Water

    • First Quiz
  • 2

    Factors Affecting Nutrition in the Elderly

    • Nutritional State of Older Patients

    • Video - Malnutrition in the Elderly

    • Second Quiz
  • 3

    Nutritional Challenges Due to Diseases

    • Health Problems & Nutritional Challenges

    • Congestive Heart Failure Diet Video

    • Third Quiz
  • 4

    Artificial Nutrition and Feeding Tubes

    • Artificial Forms of Nutrition

    • Video - Bolus Feeding Tube

    • Fourth Quiz
  • 5

    Liquid Diets

    • Clear Liquid Diet Versus Full Liquid Diet

    • Hospital Diets Overview Video

    • Fifth Quiz
  • 6

    Therapeutic Diets and Mechanically Altered Diets

    • Types of Special Diets

    • Soft Diet Video

    • Sixth Quiz
  • 7

    References

    • Works Cited

    • Seventh Quiz