#HC-04-24 Nutrition and Wellbeing
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- Course level: All Levels
About Course
University of AberdeenDescription
Gain skills to evaluate nutrition information and apply it to your own diet
This nutrition course will help you understand the scientific basis of human nutrition, and current nutrition concepts and controversies.
Each week you’ll look at a different theme:
• The makings of a ‘healthy diet’: Which components of your diet can promote wellbeing and reduce the risk of diseases?
• Why do we eat what we eat? What are the ‘drivers’ that influence our food choices?
• Food and disease: Can you really eat your way to health?
• Nutrition fads, myths and the plain truth: Are our genes to be blamed for our current nutritional habits?
What topics will you cover?
By the conclusion of the course, learners will be able to:
- Identify the principle constituents of food, along with foods and dietary patterns that meet current UK based dietary recommendations and are associated with reduced risk of common chronic diseases.
- Understand and evaluate nutrition information, advertising, and news in the media.
- Apply nutrition knowledge to personal food choices and dietary patterns
Who will you learn with?
Dr Alexandra Mavroeidi is an expert in exercise, nutrition and bone health.
Dr Alexandra Johnstone leads research on appetite across the lifecourse, with recent emphasis on high protein diets.
Who developed the course?
University of Aberdeen is the 3rd oldest Scottish and 5th oldest UK University. With 14500 students from 120 countries, it is a world leader in medical research, energy, environment, law and business.
What Will I Learn?
- Describe components of a healthy diet
- Identify principles of healthy eating
- Apply principles learned to assess their own dietary intake
- Develop an understanding of good examples of evidence based research
- Calculate their own Body Mass Index (BMI)
- Explore the influences on food choice and eating behaviors
- Identify current nutrition controversies
- Discuss their own views on food and eating
Topics for this course
Welcome to the course
Welcome to the course!00:01:44
Food diary
Diet through the centuries
Components of the healthy diet
Nutrients in food
Summary
In this course we learn why we eat what we eat, right? What are the "drivers" that influence our food choices? It's a great course for us to learn more about life and diet.
My favorite section on what constitutes a "healthy diet" : what components of your diet promote your health and reduce your risk of disease. This section is perfect for how I regulate my diet to keep my family healthy.
This course introduces us to the scientific basis of human nutrition, as well as current nutrition concepts and controversies. How to eat to stay healthy, too useful lesson.
In this course we learn how to assess nutritional information and apply it to our own diets. Very practical course.
Material Includes
- Official Certificate
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Target Audience
- This course is designed for anyone interested in nutrition courses or food and wellbeing.