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Certificate of Achievement

Randal Oulton

has completed the following course:

Food as Medicine

Monash University

This online course explored the different types of foods that are essential for health and wellbeing, and how food can play an important role in treating/preventing disease. Applying the latest research, the course enabled learners to improve their personal food choices and nutritional intake.

3 weeks, 4 hours per week

Gary Williamson

Professor, Head of Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food, Monash University

Monash University

100%
overall score

Transcript

Learning outcomes

  • Describe what is meant by the term ‘food as medicine’ and list a number of examples of how foods have been used as medicine in the past.
  • Identify how and which types of foods are essential for health and wellbeing, and play an important role in treating/preventing disease.
  • Identify current evidenced based, nutrition related public health guidelines and apply these to improve personal eating habits and nutritional intake.
  • Identify foods/components of food that have an effect on different body systems, weight and appetite, fertility and pregnancy, and the genome.

Syllabus

  • History of food as medicine
  • Food and its role in prevention and treatment
  • Macronutrients, micronutrients, phytochemicals and antioxidants
  • Nutrition complexities and controversies, and the importance of evidence
  • Food and the gut
  • Food and the brain
  • Foods, fertility and pregnancy
  • Food and weight
  • Food and our genome
  • Public health nutrition guidelines

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Issued on 22nd March 2021

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Free online course:

Food as Medicine

Monash University