Nutrition and Health Part 2: Micronutrients and Malnutrition - Wageningen University

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Learn about malnutrition and micronutrients and how they impact human health. The following course, offered by Edx, will help you improve your skills and achieve your professional goals. During the program you will study different subjects which are deemed to be useful for those who want to enhance their professional career. Sign up for more information!

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Undergraduate basic biology

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  • Nutrition
  • Health
  • Nuctrients
  • Micronutrients
  • Human Health

Course programme

Food plays a central role in our society but few people actually understand what it does to our bodies. Learn more about nutrition and how our diet profoundly impacts our current and future health. The course will focus on undernutrition and micronutrients. The team of Professors from Wageningen University will introduce you to vitamins and minerals and their role in human health. The course will address the micronutrient content of foods and will cover the role of the various micronutrients in the body. In addition, NUTR102x will discuss how suboptimal nutrition may affect human health and will pay particular attention to global hunger and malnutrition. No previous knowledge needed but course adds to knowledge from NUTR101x. Join us to learn more about nutrition and health. NUTR102x is part of the Nutrition-Food for Health xSeries of Wageningen University.

What you'll learn
  • Basic chemistry of vitamins and minerals
  • Food composition
  • The role of vitamins and minerals in the body
  • The Impact of malnutrition on global disease burden
  • Nutritional strategies to improve nutritional status and combat malnutrition

Additional information

Sander Kersten Dr. Sander Kersten is Full Professor in the Division of Human Nutrition at Wageningen University and holds an adjunct professorship in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. He received his MSc in Human Nutrition from Wageningen University in 1993 and his PhD from Cornell University in 1997.  Major Works Kersten S. (2104) Physiological regulation of lipoprotein lipase. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1841:919-33. Stienstra R, Dijk W, Beek L, Jansen H, Heemskerk M, Houtkooper R, Denis S, van Harmelen V, Willems van Dijk K,...

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