Nutrition and Wellbeing Course - University of Aberdeen
Online, United Kingdom
Course
DURATION
4 weeks
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
Key Summary
About: This free online course from the University of Aberdeen demystifies messages about nutrition, health and lifestyle. You’ll learn scientific foundations of human nutrition, weekly themes on healthy diets, food choice, disease, myths and fads. By the end you can describe healthy-diet components, assess your dietary intake, calculate BMI, evaluate evidence, and discuss controversies. Tutors: Dr Alexandra Mavroeidi and Dr Alexandra Johnstone.
Career Outcomes: Course can support roles in health promotion, nutrition education, wellness coaching, community health or research assistant, and support study in dietetics, public health or nutrition science. Skills include diet assessment, evidence appraisal, BMI calculation, behavior insight.
Demystify the complex and conflicting messages we hear about nutrition, health and lifestyle today, on this free nutrition course.
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?
When would you like to start?
Most FutureLearn courses run multiple times. Every run of a course has a set start date but you can join it and work through it after it starts.
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What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to:
- Describe components of a healthy diet.
- Identify the 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 behaviours.
- Identify current nutrition controversies.
- Discuss their own views on food and eating.
Who will you learn with?
Alex Mavroeidi and Alex Johnstone
Dr Alexandra Mavroeidi is an expert in exercise, nutrition and bone health.
Dr Alexandra Johnstone leads research on appetite across the life course, with recent emphasis on high protein diets.
Who developed the course?
University of Aberdeen
The 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.
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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 the 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 is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone interested in nutrition courses or food and wellbeing.
