This Open Learning Environment unit of study is designed to provide its students with a basic understanding of factors that affect weight regulation in humans. Weight regulation is an area of growing interest of significance and urgency, as over and undernutrition remain serious public health concerns. The unit will cover basic physiology involved in body weight regulation and will explore basic key factors that can override these physiological mechanisms, including eating behaviour psychology, genetic influences and impact of the environment. These factors will be discussed with reference weight dysregulation (obesity and eating disorders). This unit of study has been developed by academics in the University�s Charles Perkins Centre, an interdisciplinary education and research hub where researchers produce novel solutions to chronic disease.
Unit details and rules
Unit code | OLET1518 |
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Academic unit | |
Credit points | 2 |
Prohibitions
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None |
Prerequisites
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Corequisites
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Assumed knowledge
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None |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | No |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | Timothy Gill, tim.gill@sydney.edu.au |
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