Campus Moncloa
Campus of International Excellence
Valoración nutricional de individuos y colectivos. Metodología y aplicaciones
Main research lines
- Valuation of the nutritional condition of diverse groups
Objetives: Study of the nutritional status in diverse groups of the Spanish population: elders, sportsmen, women pregnants , children and adolescents
Methodologies: Accomplishment of dietetic surveys, indicators biochemistries. corporal composition, indirect calorimetry, bioimpedance. - Improvement and validation of tools used in nutritional studies
Objetives: Analysis of the methodology to using to evaluate and to improve the nutritional status of the individuals
Methodologies: Nutritionals objetives, study antropometric, dietetically, recommended dietary allowances, tables of food composition, data bases of food composition. - Study of the repercussion of the nutritional imbalances in sanitary and functional aspects
Objetives: The nutritional evaluation can detect subclinical signs before diseases appear with biochemical, hematologic and functional alterations
Methodologies: Functional capacity, biochemical index, cognitive function, mood, strengh, breast milk composition. - Nutritional education: Utilization of the knowledge in the nutritional improvement of the population
Objetives: Promote food correct habits for every group, group of age.
Methodologies: Nutritional education, guide of alimentation, nutritional intervention, detected ignorance. - Evaluation of the efficiency and safety of compounds bioactivos/functional food
Objetives: Design of clinical tests of dietetic intervention to evaluate the beneficial effects of this type of food of preventive and therapeutic form on diverse pathologies.
Methodologies: Clinical tests, functional tests, biochemical parameters, psychological test.. - Educational innovation
Objetives: Design tools that improve student learning - Analytical Chemistry
Objetives: Desing tools for determing biochemical parameters
Top
Head:
Rosa María Ortega Anta
UCM reference: 920030
Keywords:
Nutritional status.
dietary surveys.
biochemical parameters.
anthropometry.
eating/foos habits.
calorimetry.
collective.
instrumental techniques.
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