Essay titles
1. The inflammatory response to injury or infection is both a “friend” and a “foe”?
2. Cirrhosis without the booze (alcohol). Discuss this consequence of obesity.
3. Obesity causes inflammation; it does not result from it.
4. Feeding the very old patient is more complicated than might seem at first sight.
5. Weight-loss during critical illness is both a marker of poor outcome and the solution
to a problem. Discuss this statement.
6. Pre-term babies in hospital are not just little adults, and their nutritional care should
reflect this fact.
7. Is atherosclerosis an “injury which never heals”? What nutritional factors should you
consider, in its aetiology and treatment?
Instructions:
 The essay length should be 2,000 words (excluding references). Over-length essays
will be penalised. The word-length refers to the text, excluding the reference list but
including reference citations in text.
 All work should be submitted in ARIAL, size 12, margins 2.5cm around, with
numbered pages.
 Please submit work with a coversheet included as the first page of the document
(not separate). This can be downloaded from Moodle.
 When uploading your essay in Turnitin, in the ‘submission title’ box enter
your candidate number only.
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