#HC-02-53 Food and Mood: Improving Mental Health Through Diet and Nutrition
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
Deakin UniversityDescription
Learn how healthy dietary choices can improve your mental and brain health
Poor diet and poor mental health are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity worldwide. We now know that diet quality is a modifiable factor that is linked to mental and brain health across all stages of our lives.
We will explore how our daily diets may affect our mental and brain health, including the role of our immune system and gut microbiome.
The course will provide research evidence, practical examples, skills development, and collaboration on dietary intake assessment, strategies and resource sharing for dietary change.
What topics will you cover?
- The relationship between diet/nutrition and mental and brain health
- Factors influencing diet, nutrition and mental health
- Dietary styles, behaviours, guidelines and assessment
- The role of inflammation and gut microbiota for mental health
- How diet can be optimised for mental and brain health
Who will you learn with?
Doctor Tetyana Rocks is Research Fellow and Head of Translation and Education at the Food & Mood Centre, Deakin University. Tetyana is Accredited Practicing Dietitian passionate about public health.
Professor Felice Jacka is Director of the Food & Mood Centre at Deakin University, and President of the International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research
Who developed the course?
Deakin University is one of Australia’s largest universities with more than 61,000 students and over 15,000 online.
What Will I Learn?
- Describe the relationship between diet/nutrition, and mental and brain health
- Explain why diet and nutrition are important for mental and brain health.
- Explore the principles and strategies of dietary change.
Topics for this course
Welcome to Food and Mood
Diet and mental health
Defining diet and mental health
Why we eat what we eat
Really enjoyed this course. Easy to follow and some great information about healthy eating, gut health and the impact on mental health.
I really enjoyed this training and would love to do more training in relation to gut health and mental illness.
I absolutely LOVED doing this course and learning all about what I should be eating. It has changed me and my life by not only making me change my diet. But also I am so motivated now I am even looking at doing the Diploma in Nutrition now. I can't recommend this future learn course enough.
An excellent course that gave insight into how diet affects our mental and physical health. Very enjoyable.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is designed for anyone with an interest, or with experience of, good or bad mental health.
- This course will also be of interest to healthcare practitioners working with people with mental and brain health issues or in roles related to diet, nutrition and mental and brain health education.