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Bioenergetics 366 (310.366) [HM]

BIOENERGETICS IN EXERCISE AND NUTRITION

This unit provides a molecular level understanding of fuel metabolism in relation to exercise, sports nutrition and metabolic diseases. On completion, students understand how the different stores of fuel are mobilised and utilised during physical activity, and how fuel metabolism is affected by training and metabolic diseases. Moreover, students develop an appreciation of the biochemical principles underlying several key issues of sports nutrition (e.g. carbohydrate loading, vitamins and exercise performance, muscle growth, weight control and obesity). Evaluation consists of weekly assignments and one written examination.

Lectures: 3 hrs per week; project work: 25 hrs

Unit Co-ordinator: Dr P. Fournier

Prerequisites: Exercise Physiology 261 and 262 (Exercise Physiology 260, effective from 2003), and at least 6 points of second-year human movement units; or 12 points of second-year physiology, biochemistry or anatomy and human biology units; or one of Physiology 200, Physiology 250, Biochemistry 210; or Invertebrate Zoology 201 and Vertebrate Zoology 202