Nutrition in the Health Sector
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Nutrition in the Health Sector at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 4 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,763 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
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Nutrition in the Health Sector at FutureLearn Highlights
- Earn a certificate upon completion
Nutrition in the Health Sector at FutureLearn Course details
- On this four week course, you’ll deepen your knowledge of the relationship between food, diet, lifestyle, and health in the context of optimising practices in the health sector
- You’ll take an in-depth look at food composition and nutrients, discovering their principal roles within the body and how this changes throughout a life cycle
- You’ll investigate health inequities and nutritional challenges, and how these can be addressed
- Exploring techniques such as recipe modification, you’ll gain skills in linking healthy eating guidelines, dietary intake, food supply, and disease, as well as developing approaches to guide patients towards healthy food choices
Nutrition in the Health Sector at FutureLearn Curriculum
Food composition and nutrients
Getting started
Introduction to Week 1
Food composition and nutrients
Food group systems and dietary requirements
Life cycle nutrition
Energy requirements and nutrient calculations
Bringing it all together
Digestion, absorption and metabolism
Introduction to Week 2
What happens to our food after eating?
Energy and metabolism
Energy balance
Bringing it all together
Nutrition assessment & optimising health and wellbeing
Introduction to Week 3
Fundamentals of nutrition assessment & optimising health and wellbeing
Health inequities and nutritional challenges
Evidence-based nutrition data
Bringing it all together
Decreasing risk of chronic disease
Introduction to Week 4
Introducing chronic disease (non-communicable diseases) and minimising risk
Leading chronic conditions and dietary management strategies
Recipe modification, identifying fad diets and healthy dietary patterns
Bringing it all together
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