Paper No.               Papers                 Theory     Practical    Total 
                  I      Food Science and Dietetics            75          50         125 
                 II      Family Resource Management            75          50         125 
                 III     Biochemistry                          75          50         125 
                 IV      Textile Chemistry                     75          50         125 
                 V       Developmental Psychology              100         -          100 
                 VI      Extension Education                   75          50         125    
                         Total Marks                           475        250         725 
              
                                       
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        1. Definition of Dietetics, Pre Requisite Knowledge in Diet Planning: 
          a. A revision of foods groups, food pyramid 
          b. Recommended allowances prescribed by I.C.M.R. (2010) 
          c.  Balance diet definition, what is a balance diet’s study of balance diet pattern planned 
           by I.C.M.R. to suit different activity, age groups and rules of meal planning 
        2. Planning Out Daily Menu Patterns and Weekly Menu: 
          a. Importance  of  packed  lunch  and  meals  for  office  goers.  Nursery  school  going 
           children, adolescents and labourers. Their incorporation in meal plans in relation to 
           other meal timings. 
          b. Feeding of an infant breast feeding, importance of breast feeding 
          c.  Diet  Plans  for  a  Preschool  Child:  Nursery  school  child  nutritional  requirement 
           training the child to accept the different variety of foods. Training at home and at 
           school. 
          d. Diet  in  Adolescent  Period:  Food  needs  of  the  boys  and  girls  and  nutritional 
           disorder. 
        3. Inborn Errors of Metabolism 
        4. Diet in Adults: Food needs for various occupational groups: 
          a. Very active groups,  
          b. Moderately active group  
          c.  Sedentary workers men/women  
          d. Diet for elderly person 
        5. Therapeutic Nutrition 
          a. Diet in the Treatment of Diseases: Modification and therapeutic adaptation of the 
           normal diet and routine hospital diet (clear fluid, full fluid, semi solid, solid and 
           normal diet) 
          b. Diet in Pregnancy and Lactation: Nutritional management during pregnancy with 
           special references to the third trimester and anaemic condition. 
        6. Nutritional Deficiency Diseases, Etiology and Symptoms 
        7. Dietary Treatment of the Following Diseases: 
          a. Protein calorie malnutrition                                          
          b. Disorders due to vitamin deficiency 
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                      c.  Iodine deficiency disorder 
                      d. Nutritional anaemia 
                      e.  Thyroid disorders 
                      f.  Uric acid disorder 
                   8. Dietary Treatment 
                      a. Dietary treatment in acute and chronic fever        
                      b. Dietary treatment in overweight and underweight 
                      c.  Diabetes mellitus causes, symptoms and dietary treatment 
                      d. Dietary treatment in liver and gall bladder diseases: Jaundice, Cirrhosis of liver 
                      e.  Dietary treatment in kidney diseases- nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, kidney stones, 
                         urinary tract infection 
                      f.  Dietary  treatment  in  the  gastro  intestinal  tract  disorder-  diarrhoea,  constipation, 
                         peptic ulcer, colitis 
                      g. Dietary  treatment  in  cardio  vascular  diseases  (CVD)-  atherosclerosis  and 
                         hypertension 
                      h. Dietary treatment of Tuberculosis 
                      i.  Dietary treatment of different types of cancers 
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        1. Preparing menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner. 
        2. Preparing menu and meals for packed lunches for school children, office goers and 
          labourers. 
        3. Planning and preparing normal diet for children in nursery school, primary school, for 
          adolescent girls and boys, in old age, in pregnancy and lactation. 
        4. Planning  preparing  and  serving  suitable  diets  for  disorder  viz  fever,  underweight, 
          overweight, diabetes, constipation,  diarrhoea, gastroenteritis, peptic ulcer, dyspepsia, 
          hyperactivity,  nephritic  syndrome,  nephritis,  jaundice,  hepatitis,  hypertension  and 
          atherosclerosis.     
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