| 1 | To classify hormones and explain their mechanisms of action and to analyse the effects of insulin, glucagon, glucocorticoids, adrenal medulla hormones, growth hormone, thyroid and gonad hormones on metabolism |
| 2 | To evaluate the metabolic changes that occur during fasting, satiety and exercise and to develop comments about these changes based on scientific basis |
| 3 | To learn the biochemical processes related to water-electrolyte and acid-base homeostasis and to integrate its relationship with nutrition to clinical nutrition practices |
| 4 | To understand the functions of macro-minerals and trace elements in metabolism and to examine the effects of their deficiency and excess on health |
| 5 | To explain the link between osteoporosis or other bone diseases and nutrition |
| 6 | To develop nutritional recommendations for the prevention of nutrition-related issues such as anaemia by learning iron metabolism, heme synthesis and degradation |
| 7 | To examine the roles of fat and water soluble vitamins in body functions and to evaluate the risks of vitamin deficiency according to dietary reference intake levels |
| 8 | To make scientifically based decisions in individual nutritional planning by considering biochemical processes and to integrate these decisions into nutritional therapy |
| 9 | To create nutritional recommendations in the context of sports nutrition and medical nutrition therapy by evaluating the biochemical relationships between metabolism and nutrition |
| 10 | To examine current scientific research on nutritional biochemistry using the knowledge gained in the course |