Functional, special and ergogenic nutrition

- Understanding how functional foods interact in human nutrition
- Understanding how food interacts in our body with genes and the other way around.
- Understanding how the microbiome interacts with the human organism.
- Understanding and know-how to apply the standards of physical activity in relation to energy balance

Theoretical content:

Topic 1. New foods and novel food ingredients I.
Topic 2. New foods and novel food ingredients II.
Topic 3. Personalized nutrition (Introduction to nutrigenomics, nutrigenetics, proteomics and human microbiome).
Topic 4. Physical activity, sport and nutrition.

Practical content:
- Molecular biology techniques and their application in nutritional status studies (nutrigenetics, nutrigenomics and metagenomics studies).

- Gil, A. (2010). Tratado de nutrición. Tomo I: Bases fisiológicas y bioquímicas de la nutrición. Panamericana (Madrid).
- MATAIX, J. Nutrición y alimentación humana. Vol. I y II (2002). Ed. Ergon.
- Daniella Gordillo Bastidas y Elisabeth Gordillo Bastidas (2015). Nutrición Molecular. McGrawHill. México.

Basic skills.
CG6 - To be able to participate in the design and development of healthier foods.
CG11 - Acquire training to develop research activity, being able to formulate hypotheses, collect and interpret problem-solving information using the scientific method, and understand the importance and limitations of scientific thinking on nutrition, food security and food technology issues.
CB6 - Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context
CB8 - That students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of making judgments based on incomplete or limited information, including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.

Specific skills:
COP18 - To know and know how to apply the fundamental aspects of functional and special nutrition and ergogenic aids.

Transversal skills:
CT3 - Ability to work in a team.
CT6 - Ability to search, analyze and manage information from diverse sources.
CT11 - Capacity for autonomous learning.

Lectures.
In them the teacher will develop the content of the theoretical program reflected in this guide, using the didactic and audiovisual resources that he or she considers appropriate, and favoring the participation of the students.

Practical classes.
Practical classes in the laboratory on molecular biology techniques and their application in nutrigenetic, nutrigenomic and metagenomic studies. Preparation of a practical report.

Group or individual seminars.
Solving problems related to theoretical contents and oral presentation.

The USC Virtual Campus (Moodle), or the Microsoft Teams tool, as appropriate, can be used as a fundamental support resource for teaching. The monitoring of all activities will be carried out through the programming of deliveries and participation lists in the Virtual Campus. Direct communication between students and between students and teachers, can be carried out through the Virtual Campus forum, through Microsoft Teams or by e-mail.

The student's evaluation will include:

1. Continuous evaluation (will be 30% of the final grade: 20% expository + 10% laboratory practice). Evaluated competences: CG6, CG12, CB1, CB3, CB6
2. Written tasks and oral presentations: 40% of the final grade. Evaluated competences: CG6, CG12, CT3, CT6, CT11
3. Written exam: 30% of the final grade (a minimum of 40% of the grade of this exam will be required, that is, 4 points out of 10). Evaluated competences: CG6, CG12, CE53, CE54, CE55.

Practical sessions are compulsory.

In the case of fraudulent exercises or tests, the provisions of the "Regulations for the evaluation of the academic performance of students and the revision of grades" will be applied.
The monitoring of all activities will be carried out through the programming of deliveries and participation lists in the Virtual Campus. Direct communication between students and between students and teachers, can be carried out through the Virtual Campus forum, through Microsoft Teams or by e-mail.

The total number of hours of work of the student in a subject organized in ECTS credits is equal to 25 x nº ECTS. The presence and the hours of work of the student will be distributed as follows:

- Lectures: 16 hours face-to-face (16 x 1,5 = 24 hours of personal study)
- Practicals: 2 hours face-to-face and 1 hour of personal work
- Work and personal study (non-contact hours: 22 hours)
- Seminars: 2 hours and 4 hours of personal work
- Exams and review: 1 hour
- Total contact hours: 24
- Total hours of study and personal work: 51

-To participate actively, constructively and respectfully in classes, seminars and practices.
-To prepare and complement the contents that are working on the subject with the basic bibliography and complementary recommended.
-To Develop habits of autonomous search for scientific information.
-To take advantage of the available resources for the student, from the university library.
-To use appropriate tutorials to know in detail the teacher's recommendations and clarify any doubts that arise in the learning process.
- Regularly consult the virtual classroom of the subject and make use of it.

The subject is taught in the two official languages of the autonomous community.