has achieved a FutureLearn Award for the following program
Using Food as Medicine in Healthcare Practice
Monash University
This set of flexible courses for healthcare professionals (including GPs, nurses and midwives) improved your knowledge of a range of nutrition and health topics, and gave you practical skills for providing simple nutrition and food based advice to patients.
Certificates of Achievement
Certificates of Achievement for the courses on this program:
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Learning outcomes
Completing the Food as Medicine in Healthcare program will enable you to:
- generate a holistic, multi-disciplinary approach to managing a range of conditions impacted by diet and nutrition
- provide evidence-based food recommendations for optimising the management of nutrient related gene expression, gut health, inflammation, weight loss, fertility, pre-conception health and nutrition during pregnancy
- develop strategies to engage effectively with patients on sensitive issues including weight loss, fertility, genetics, and diet
- apply your knowledge of gastrointestinal symptoms, food, weight loss and management, genes and the human genome, fertility and pregnancy, the immune function and inflammation to respond to common nutrition and dietary questions
- describe the key factors that exacerbate exercise-induced gastrointestinal syndrome, prevent weight gain and contribute to weight loss
- evaluate the complexity and variability of inflammatory responses in non-communicable diseases and discuss the complex interplay between nutrition, immune function and inflammation.
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