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PHE 216 : Nutrition And Drugs Education In Sports

NCE2 levelMedical & Health Sciences23 topics

PHE 216 covers 23 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. OBJECTIVES 2 Credits Compulsory
  2. After studying this unit the students should be able to:
  3. Explain the meaning of nutrition, drugs, drugs used, drugs abuse etc
  4. Understand the various classes of food and their values to the athletic
  5. Define consumer health education with specific example
  6. List the classes of food and explain what bala nce diet means
  7. Understand methods of food preservation
  8. Understand classification of drugs in relation to international standard
  9. Appreciate the plight of alcoholic in the society
  10. Acquire knowledge on how to prepare nutrition for athletes as a form of career opportunity.
  11. Consumer Health; Meaning, examples of Consumer rights
  12. Meaning, Classes, types and importance of food: referenced to be made to local foodstuffs and their
  13. Balanced diet, its values and pres ervations of food; deficiency diseases; food fads and
  14. Preparation of simple meal for athletes in camp and during competitions.
  15. Nutrition for special groups e. g. School children, adolescence, and sick
  16. Pre-game meal glycogen loading techniques
  17. Effects of glycogen loading on health and performance
  18. Definition of Drugs: Classification of drugs and alcohol?
  19. Drug use and abuse in sports
  20. Alcoholism: caress and treatment therapy
  21. Importance of labels and expiry date of drugs
  22. Quacks and Quackery in drug production and dispensing
  23. Effects of the use of drugs in sports.

A sample from this course

One topic, as StudyPath teaches it.

OBJECTIVES 2 Credits Compulsory

This topic focuses on the objectives of Nutrition and Drugs Education in Sports as a compulsory course. For examination purposes, you should master why the course exists, what it aims to achieve in athletes and sports professionals, and how those aims support health, performance, safety, and ethical participation in sport.

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