Short course:

11th - 13th April 2005

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• The healthy gut; digestion and absorption of macronutrients
  
• Areas of the gut involved in the absorption of specific micronutrients
  
• Adaptation of intestinal transporters
  
• Role of the colon in human nutrition; non-starch polysaccarides: definition and content in foods; starch and resistant starch: fermentation.
  
• Physiological influences of non-starch polysaccharides: plasma cholesterol lowering, modification of the glycaemic response, large bowel function, nutrient availability.
  
• Bacterial diversity in the GI tract; metabolic interactions; gas metabolism; proteolysis e.g. amine production; flora modulation by diet e.g. prebiotics and probiotics.
  
• Microflora overgrowth: candida - myth or reality?
  
• Acute and chronic gut infection; irritable bowel disease, colitis.
  
• Impaired digestion and its consequences; achlorhydria, hypochlorhydria, pancreatic exocrine hypofunction.
  
• Malabsorption syndromes: pathogenesis and management.
  
• Increased intestinal permeability; measurement of gut permeability.
  
• The gut and the immune system.
  
• Food intolerance and allergy: definitions; diagnosis; symptoms, syndromes and disease in children and adults; cows milk intolerance; atopic eczema, asthma; lactose intolerance.
  
• Allergy testing.
  
• Approaches to treatment of food intolerance: e.g. exclusion diets: use in rheumatoid arthritis etc., liabilities of exclusion diets.
  
• Diet and gastrointestinal disease epidemiology
  
• Colorectal cancer and diet: meat, non-starch polysaccharides, starch, fact, fruit and vegetables - phytoprotectants, antioxidants etc.
  
• Nutritional support for the gut: glutamine, dietary enzyme supplementation etc.
  
• Nutritional management of coeliac disease, Crohn’s disease, constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, diverticular disease, ulcerative colitis, gastrointestinal cancer (n-3 fatty acids), short-bowel syndrome.
  
• Prophylactic management of gut disease.

15th August 2006