Nutrition Science: Lifestyle Medicine (FutureLearn)

Delving into the role of diet, physical activity, stress, and environment on preventative medication, you’ll understand how nutrition and movement can positively or negatively influence health.

Explore the relationship between diet and non-communicable diseases

You’ll unpack the critical relationship between diet and non-communicable (chronic) diseases.

This exploration of evidence-based learning will help you understand exactly how nutrition can lead to an increased risk of some diseases.

It will also give you the opportunity to learn how to evaluate a range of information including system reviews and observation studies in the research environment.

Understand the role of social and environmental factors in influencing lifestyle

As you delve further into the relationship between food and health, you’ll explore the role of social and environmental factors in influencing lifestyles, such as shift work, intermittent fasting, and sleep.

With this knowledge, you’ll understand the many contributors to health and wellbeing.

Learning from the experts and research academics at the world-leading Rowett Institute, you’ll finish the course with a deep understanding of the relationships between diet, movement, and lifelong health.

Syllabus

Week 1: Preventative role of diet and nutrition for life-long health

Week 2: Physical activity and health

Week 3: Stress and resilience on mood and food

Week 4: The influence of environment and social factors on health

What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...

- Explain the preventative role of diet and nutrition for lifelong health.

- Describe the role of physical activity and movement to positively influence health.

- Discuss the relationship between stress and resilience on mood and food.

- Discuss environmental & social factors influencing health, wellbeing and longevity.

- Evaluate a range of hierarchy of evidence from systematic reviews to observational studies as applied in the research environment as evidence-based literature.
Who is the course for?

This course is designed for anyone interested in health, including allied health professionals and those working in health care or the food system.

It will also be of interest to those looking to enhance their CPD.

If you want to further your knowledge, you may be interested in these courses, from the same provider, that share the same overall learning outcomes:

- Nutrition Science: Food Choice and Behaviour

- Nutrition Science: Obesity and Healthy Weight Loss