BSc Home Science Clinical Nutrition Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

This is the Semester 6 syllabus under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2026-27. The University still examines the earlier Choice Based papers alongside it: her third-year timetables name that scheme, so check which scheme your exam form names before you revise.

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Syllabus for Clinical Nutrition

Major · Semester 6 · Third Year - Foods, Nutrition and Dietetics · 4 credits · 100 marks

Module I: The Nutritional Care Process, The Hypercatabolic State and Weight

Management
1 Nutritional Care Process and Principles of diet therapy
i Team work in nutritional care
ii Review of Normal diet and Standard hospital diets
iii Overview of Nutritional Care process and counseling
2 The Hypercatabolic State
i Surgery and Burns- An overview
ii Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
3 Weight management
i Regulation of food intake: Short term and Long term regulation, Set point theory
ii Obesity and Overweight: Classification, Etiology and assessment, Complications and Management (Nutrition and lifestyle, Pharmacological, Surgical and Behavioral)
iii Juvenile obesity (in brief) Underweight and eating disorders

Module II: Diabetes Mellitus, Cardiovascular Diseases and Nutrition in Infections

1 Diabetes Mellitus
i Etiology, Classification and Diagnosis
ii Long and short term complications (brief) Management (Dietary Management, Insulin Therapy, Exercise, Pharmacological)
iii Overview of special conditions: Diabetes in Childhood, Pregnancy
iv Role of Nutrition in Prevention
2 Cardiovascular diseases
i Overview of Metabolic Syndrome
ii Hypertension: Oetiology and Risk factors, Pathophysiology, Management
iii Pathophysiology and Management of Atherosclerosis
iv Angina Pectoris, Myocardial Infarction Congestive cardiac failure
3 Nutrition in Infections: Typhoid, Tuberculosis, HIV

Module III: Diseases of the Gastro Intestinal System, Food Allergies and Intolerances

Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Cancer
1 Diseases of the Gastrointestinal System
i GERD, oesophagitis
ii Acute and chronic gastritis and peptic ulcer disease (gastric and duodenal)
iii Diarrhoea, constipation, flatulence, Lactose intolerance
iv Gluten induced enteropathy
v Inflammatory bowel diseases
vi Irritable Bowel Syndrome
2 Food Allergies and intolerances A Brief Overview
3 Inborn Errors of metabolism - A Brief Overview
i Phenylketonuria
ii Wilson’s disease
4 Cancer – Role of nutrition in the aetiology, prevention and its management – an overview

Module IV: Diseases of the Liver, Biliary System and Pancreas; Renal Diseases

1 Diseases of the Liver, Biliary system and Pancreas
i Viral Hepatitis (brief), Alcoholic liver disease, Cirrhosis, Hepatic encephalopathy
ii Biliary System: Cholelithiasis, Cholecystitis
iii Pancreatic diseases: Pancreatitis (acute and chronic)
2 Renal diseases
i Nephritis – acute and chronic
ii Nephrotic syndrome
iii Renal failure- Acute Kidney Injury, Chronic Kidney Disease, Dialysis, Renal Transplant
iv Nephrolithiasis
3 Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease- An Overview

Reference Books

1 Srilakshmi, B. (2007). Dietetics. India: New Age.
2 Brown, J. E. (2019). Nutrition Through the Life Cycle. Cengage Learning.
3 Clinical Nutrition Handbook. (2022). India: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers.
4 Longvah, T., Anantan, I., Bhaskarachary, K., & Venkaiah, K. (2017). Indian Food Composition Tables. India: National Institute of Nutrition, Indian Council of Medical Research.
5 Nix, S. (2021). Williams' Basic Nutrition and Diet Therapy. United States: Elsevier — Health Sciences Division.
6 Nutrition in Critical Care. (2014). United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
7 Raymond, J. L., & Morrow, K. (2022). Krause and Mahan's Food and the Nutrition Care Process (16th ed., e-book). United States: Elsevier.
8 Raymond, J. L. (2020). Krause and Mahan's Food and the Nutrition Care Process (15th ed.). United States: Elsevier — Health Sciences Division.
9 Sizer, F., & Whitney, E. (2020). Nutrition: Concepts and Controversies. Cengage Learning.

Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.Sc. (Home Science) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2026-27. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.

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