Section outline

  • This knowledge area will explain the phenomenon of nutrient overdose, the consequences of nutrients overload will also be described, and students will be educated on how this can be avoided. students will also be able to discuss the subject of obesity from the following perspectives: historical perspectives, epidemiology, definition, measurement, causes of obesity and recommend the needed therapeutic treatment, to describe the causes, symptoms and measurement of obesity

    At the end of this knowledge area students will be able to discuss causes of non communicable diseases, to state the common symptoms of common non communicable and chronic diseases, to explain the effect of non communicable chronic diseases on global disease burden, to define the term of non communicable and chronic diseases, to mention the common non communicable and chronic diseases