Nutrition for Weight Loss

CONTENTS

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Here's what is covered by each leson:

There are nine lessons in this course as follows:

1. Understanding Obesity

• Types of Obesity 
• Dietary Trends and the Incidence of Obesity
• Factors Influencing Food Intake and Habits
• Physiological factors which determine food intake
• Environmental and behavioural factors which determine food intake:
• Causes of Obesity (Genetics, Lifestyle, Exercise, Eating habits, Water intake, Changing metabolism through life, Medical conditions and disease, Psychology)
• Health Risks of Obesity
• Understanding Weight
• Body composition
• Evaluation Techniques – Body Mass Index (BMI)

2. Nutrition Basics

• Why we need food
• Nutrient Reference Value (NRV)
• Understanding Digestion and Absorption
• How we process food
• Basic Roles of Major Digestive Organs
• Food Composition (Carbohydrates, Protens, Fats, etc)
• Fibre
• Need for Fluids
• The Glycaemic Index (GI)
• Calculating Energy Requirements
• Basal Metabolic Rate
• Food Pyramid and Recommended Daily Intake (RDI)
• What is the recommended intake of nutrients?
• New food pyramid and normal eating patterns
• Childhood Obesity

3. Diets -Fads, Fiction and Fact

• A Review of Popular Approaches to Weight Loss and Control
• Vegetarian Diets
• Starvation
• Very Low Calorie and Liquid Diets
• Commercial Low Calorie Meal Substitutes
• Commercial Low Calorie Meal Substitutes
• Blood type diet
• Food combining
• Detox Diets
• Low carbohydrate diets
• Low Glycaemic index diet (low GI)
• Sweeteners
• Low fat diets
• Fat Substitutes
• Fat burning diets
• Supplements
• Guidelines for Childhood Weight Loss

4. Preventing Obesity

• Introduction
• Metabolism – Keeping the Metabolic Rate Stable
• Making the best food choices
• Nutritional Education
• Teaching Healthy Eating Habits to Children
• Health Initiatives Targeting Obesity
• Public Health Information
• Legislative controls

5. Treating Obesity

• Methods that Work
• Assessment of Clients or Patients
• Modifying Behaviour
• Prescribing Diets
• Life Coach and Personal Trainer
• Weight Loss Hypnosis
• Self-help Groups
• Health Clubs, Health Farms and Holiday Retreats
• A Holistic Approach
• Supplements

6. Modifying Eating Behaviour

• Key Stages in Behaviour Changes
• Cultural food patterns
• How to Make Lifelong Changes
• Assess Current Diet (patterns and nutritional value)
• Plan for Change
• Seek Motivation and Support from Others
• Improving Health Through Food
• Diseases Linked to Obesity
• Changing Unhealthy Habits

7. Restricting Calorie Intake

• Understanding Energy and Metabolism
• Metabolism
• Energy Metabolism
• Age (Growth and Aging) and Metabolism
• Activity and Metabolism
• Calorie Restricted Diets

8. Medical Conditions: Hormones, Drugs, Eating Disorders

• Nutrition During Disease
• Childhood Diabetes
• Link between Medication and Diet
• Drugs and Hormones Prescribed for Weight Management
• Diet Pills
• Thyroid hormone
• Somatropin (Growth Hormone
• Weight Loss Surgery
• Lipoplasty (Liposuction)
• Abdominoplasty (Tummy tuck)
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Bulimia Nervosa

9. Planning a Diet

• A major Problem Based Learning Project

Duration of this Course:  100 hours.... study at your own pace from anywhere in the world. The average student might take 3 or 4 months to complete this, but if you apply yourself, it can be done in 1 month; or you can spread it out over a year or more.