The science of nutrition and healthy eating

Description:

The course lasts eight weeks, with approximately three hours of study each week. You can work through the course at your own pace, so if you have more time one week there is no problem with pushing on to complete another week’s study. You will be able to test your understanding of the course through the weekly interactive quizzes, of which Weeks 4 and 8 will provide you with an opportunity to earn a badge to demonstrate your new skills. You can read more on how to study the course and about badges in the next sections. After completing this course, you will be able to: demonstrate and understand how food is processed and then used in the body apply knowledge to understand healthy eating advice and identify how ti varies in different countries make sense of food labels and perform basic calculations of energy in food describe and know about food allergies and intolerances describe and understand possible reasons for the current obesity epidemic.