{"id":3788,"date":"2016-01-20T14:11:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=3788"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:33:57","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:33:57","slug":"why-i-love-nutrition-at-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2016\/01\/20\/why-i-love-nutrition-at-bu\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I love Nutrition at BU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nutrition is an excellent course to pursue at BU for many different reasons. The reason I love this course is that the lecturers are extremely friendly and are easy to talk to, making you want to listen and learn much more. But putting that aside the resources available to use are excellent, there\u2019s even a library open 24\/7!<\/p>\n

In this course a range of areas are covered and not just \u2018food\u2019 as everyone seems to think! Rather than learning \u2018fruit is good and chocolate is bad\u2019, you get to find out why people love eating chocolate and other foods like it! What your mind is thinking about food and so much more. \u00a0I\u2019m no health freak or fitness craver (so don\u2019t feel intimidated by its title).<\/p>\n

Within one of the modules you could measure how much CO2 you produce during exercise, it\u2019s not too strenuous either so you don\u2019t look at it like \u2018exercise no!\u2019 In the first year you cover six modules, three in the first term and three in the second. I\u2019m just finishing the first three modules which are: Principles of Food and Nutrition, Chemistry and Research Methods. All three of them have taught me different things that I didn\u2019t know before, one of them being that I could find Research Methods fun!<\/p>\n\"Nutrition-2\"<\/a>\n

It\u2019s not all based on food in the beginning, which I thought was a good start to the course as it didn\u2019t overload you and eased you into it.\u00a0 In Chemistry we learnt the basics of science and the most interesting thing I learnt was about hand warmers, and how they work and what\u2019s happening to them, and the reaction which is occurring.\u00a0 That wasn\u2019t something I expected to learn about on this course.<\/p>\n

Within the module Principles of Food and Nutrition, I learnt the nutrients and what they do in the body, how they work together, almost as if they were a team constantly helping one another to make the body function correctly! It truly is something amazing to know as it\u2019s so complex.<\/p>\n

Next term is when it becomes even better as the modules are Human Anatomy and Physiology, Psychosocial Aspects of Health and Human Food Chain. These modules are a lot more focussed on food and the body; I\u2019m excited to see what I learn from them as I have never learnt anything like it before.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also heard from other students and lecturers that in the following years, as a lecture we get to observe mouldy food! And who doesn\u2019t want to watch food go mouldy as a lecture? That\u2019s a lot more fun than learning equations.\u00a0 If knowing you get to watch mouldy food doesn\u2019t make you love the sound of this course, I don\u2019t know what will.<\/p>\n

By Sarah Holding<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nutrition is an excellent course to pursue at BU for many different reasons. The reason I love this course is that the lecturers are extremely friendly and are easy to talk to, making you want to listen and learn much more. But putting that aside the resources available to use are excellent, there\u2019s even a… Read more » about Why I love Nutrition at BU<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1420,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1638],"tags":[877,862,130,603,48,605,604,578,69,42,40],"class_list":["post-3788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-undergraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-a-day-in-the-life","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-bsc-hons-nutrition","tag-bu","tag-health-social-sciences","tag-nutrition-degree","tag-sarah-holding","tag-students","tag-ucas","tag-uni"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3788"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3793,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3788\/revisions\/3793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}