Nutrition For Weight Loss Level 3 Certificate Course

There are 9 lessons:

1. Understanding Obesity

   • What is obesity

   • Types of Obesity Hyperplasia or Hypertrophy of Fats Cells
   • 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

Your learning experience with ADL will not only depend on the quality of the course, but also the quality of the person teaching it. This course is taught by Juliette Harris. Your course fee includes unlimited tutorial support throughout. Here are their credentials:

Juliette Harris - Nutritional
BSc Hons Biology (University of Sussex)

Juliette has over 10 years experience in teaching and private tutoring. As an undergraduate, she contributed to published research on the behaviour of an endangered bat species, though her main areas of interest and specialisation are genetics and cellular biology. After 7 months in the rainforests & reefs of Central America, Juliette began her teaching career at prestigious private school, Brighton College. She soon returned to Central America, heading up a field-trip for A-level students. She has been private tutor & exam coach to a range of students with very diverse backgrounds, aptitudes and expectations.More recently, Juliette has enjoyed working with adults with learning difficulties and enormous barriers to education. Juliette currently splits her time between England and Bulgaria, where she works as a teacher and missionary.