RecordedNutrition Science: All You Need to Know
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.
RecordedWhat you’ll actually learn
- Learn about the basics of nutrition science and how it can support our body's daily functions, growth, repair, and overall well-being.
- Know about all the essential nutrients that your body needs like carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, and even water.
- Learn about the history of nutrition science, different food guides, and what their shortcomings are.
- Understand what are the different factors that affect our body, what the negative health outcomes can be, and how we can combat them using food and diet.
- Learn about the importance of a balanced diet and how different food groups work together to meet the body’s nutritional needs.
Who’s this for?
This course can be helpful for nutritionists, healthcare professionals, fitness trainers, students and even for people who are interested to learn how nutrition affects the body. Yoga and wellness coaches, as well as homemakers who want to learn how to feed their families better can also enroll in this course. This particular course can be a good starting point for people who want to explore nutrition in a more serious way before they decide to pursue it as an advanced study or in a more clinical way.
Why this course
is important
- Detailed explanations of all the topics
- Curated and taught by leading experts in Functional Nutrition
- Certification of Completion
- Lifetime access to recordings
- Online and self-paced learning
- Downloadable PDFs of learning material
Where it leads
Having a strong and thorough foundation in the field of nutrition science can help to support and expand learning in areas like clinical nutrition, sports nutrition, public health nutrition, wellness, and even specialised dietary approaches. It can also help fitness professionals and health-focused people to understand the relationship between food, physical activity, and everyday well-being even better. This particular course can strengthen your foundational knowledge.
Topics
- Introduction to Nutrition Science
- History of Nutrition Science
- Major Classes of Nutrients
- Factors Affecting Health Outcomes
- Updated Guidelines for a Healthy Life
- Bonus Lecture: How to Plan a Diet
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Things You’re Probably Wondering
Nutrition science studies how food and nutritional components affect our body, including digestion, absorption and other bodily functions.
