Short Course in Basic Nutrition & Health - Special Offer below!

We are all aware of the importance of sensible eating habits and the need for eating healthy foods.  Indeed, a good diet is central to overall good health.  But which are the best foods to include in your daily eating plan, and which are the best avoided - and why?

This new comprehensive home study course is ideal for anyone who wants to learn more about nuutrition and how diet influences health and vitality.  Based on sound knowledge and principles this course provides  clear, concise no-nonsense information and teaches you the important facts about health and nutrition.  This beautifully written, simplified material will help you to improve or maintain your own health and that of your family and friends.   

This course is also ideal for any healthcare practitioner who wants to expand his/her knowledge of nutrition and health in order to enhance their practice.

Course Outline:

Module 1 - The Basics    (approx. 80 pages)

Part I - The Principle Bulk Nutrients and their Food Sources.  This covers the basic science of the bulk nutrients carbohydrates, protein and fats, the suppliers of our food energy, essential amino acids and fatty acids.  A good understanding is important if you are to manipulate them with skill. 

Part II - Cellular Energy - The Origin of our Health and Vitality.  Simply put, our overall energy and ability to maintain health depends on the energy that every single cell of our bodies generate.  Here you learn how this energy is generated (the principles, not the chemical detail!) and what functions the cell must perform with this energy.  It explains calories as units of energy measurement and the dynamic role of enzymes in the cells. 

Part III - Creating and Maintaining Health and Vitaility.  This explains the importance of controlling the environment within each of our body cells if we are to achieve overall health and vitality.  This is truly developing an understanding of health from the 'grass roots'.

Part IV - Cleansing and Detoxifcation.  This stresses the need for the cell to excrete waste and toxic materials if it is to remian vital and active and to maintain the integrity of its energy systems and enzymes.  Once this waste is released, you will then learn the importance of the liver in excreting them from the body.  You will find explained here the key principles upon which well designed 'detox' programmes are based.

Module 2- Vitamins and Minerals     (approx 70 pages) 

Part I - The Minerals.  This emphasises and explains the importance of the minerals contained in our foods.  It shows them in their role as enzyme activators and how they contribute to energy production and maintaining vital cellular function.  It explains the key roles and characteristics of individual minerals.

Part II - The Vitamins.  This explains how vitamins activate enzymes, contribute to energy and increase vitality.  It explains their differing functions and characteristics.   

Module 3 - Digestive Health and Making Educated Food Choices     (approx. 80 pages)

Part I - Bowel Flora and its Importance to Health.  This explains how the complex population of bacteria in the intestines contribute to maintaining vitality and health.  As the ancient Greek physician Hippocrates wrote "death sits in the bowels" - how these bacteria aid cleansing and the maintenance of a good environment, so essential to good health within the body, cannot be over emphasised.  Includes how to nurtutre your own bowel flora.

Part II - Eating for Health and Vitality.  This identifies foods that help the body to cleanse and detoxify - and those that interfere with the smooth running of the body in this respect.  You will also learn the foods to choose in order to maintain balanced blood sugar levels - a simple concept that is very powerful when put into practice, helping eliminate unpleasent symptoms such as daytime fatigue, irritability, cravings and loss of concentration. 

Part III - The Composition of Foods.  This provides a great deal of data on the composition of foods, their content and the main differences between them.  This is a working mass of information to enable your own design of health-giviing diets.

Part IV - Allergies, Intolerances and Sensitivities.  This introduces you to the highly topical (and often confusing) area of allergies - what they are; their signs and symptoms; the most frequent allergies; their causes (food, chemical, emotional and mental); stages of allergy, the different types, food additives and chemicals; allergy testing and its limitations - and most importantly how best to manage them.

Module 4 - Pulling it All Together     (approx. 50 pages)

Part I - Designing Diets.  This provides clear guidance on designing maintenance nutritional diets that, compared to most ordinary diets, should improve health.

Part II - The Use of Supplements - Principles and Guidance.  This explains and demystifies the subject of vitamin and mineral supplements and their use.  It enables you to design simple maintenance and health-giving programmes of supplementation.   

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Please note that this course does NOT entitle the student to become a practising nutritonal therapist and/or charge members of the public for advice.  Students may, however apply for a place on our therapist programme and receive a discount of £200 in recognition of their successful completion of this Certificate in Basic Nutrition.