Nutrition Science: Obesity and Healthy Weight Loss – Online Course
Delve into the lifestyle contributors and lived experience of obesity and how to healthily promote weight loss, from the University of Aberdeen.
Who is the course for?
This course is for anyone with an interest in health, which would include allied health professionals, those working in health care or the food system, who are actively looking to enhance their CPD.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
Discuss the major lifestyle contributors to obesity and weight gain in society and the challenges for prevention and treatment.
Explain the principles of nutrition and how they impact weight loss and critically evaluate the evidence base for nutrition guidelines.
Apply knowledge of the physiological and psychological bases of obesity and weight gain and critically evaluate how they can impact weight wellness.
Explain the barriers and enablers to post weight loss management and understand their impact on longer term weight management.
Reflect on and describe the strengths and limitations of weight loss methods and evaluate these with supporting evidence.
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Nutrition Science: Obesity and Healthy Weight Loss
Delve into the lifestyle contributors and lived experience of obesity and how to healthily promote weight loss, from the University of Aberdeen.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for anyone interested in health, in relation to obesity and weight gain.
You may be a health professional, working in health care or the food system, or you could simply be looking to enhance your CPD.
If you want to further your subject knowledge, you may be interested in these courses, from the same provider, that share the same overall learning outcomes:
Nutrition Science: Lifestyle Medicine
Nutrition Science: Food Choice and Behaviour
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to…
Discuss the major lifestyle contributors to obesity and weight gain in society and the challenges for prevention and treatment.
Explain the principles of nutrition and how they impact weight loss and critically evaluate the evidence base for nutrition guidelines.
Apply knowledge of the physiological and psychological bases of obesity and weight gain and critically evaluate how they can impact weight wellness.
Explain the barriers and enablers to post weight loss management and understand their impact on longer term weight management.
Reflect on and describe the strengths and limitations of weight loss methods and evaluate these with supporting evidence.
