Nutrition is so much more than just keeping a count on your calories and following a strict diet plan. It’s understanding what your body really needs, how the body uses up nutrients, how it functions, and what we eat daily influences energy levels, growth, metabolism, and overall well being. This course will help you learn about the key points that are related to nutrition, what the difference between macro and micro nutrients is, how our digestion process works, how absorption takes place, and it will also help you understand why a balanced nutrition plan is important in every stage of your life.

Heart health can be affected by more than just exercise and your genetic makeup. What we eat on a regular basis, how much stress we take, and our overall lifestyle choices affect our blood pressure, cholesterol levels, blood sugar, and other factors, thus creating a link to cardiovascular diseases in the long run. How we manage all these factors can make a huge difference in heart health. This particular course helps you explore the relationship between nutrition and your cardiovascular health. This course will also help you understand how to spot as well as manage common risk factors that are related to the heart. It will also inform you about your dietary patterns, and lifestyle habits so that you can make more informed choices when it comes to heart health.

A packet can say “natural,” “high protein” or “no added sugar” and still leave you with questions about what is actually inside. This course teaches you how to read food labels with a more informed eye. Learn to interpret ingredient lists, recognise different forms of sugar, understand additives and preservatives, and make sense of nutritional and health claims on packaged foods commonly sold in India.