Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Understanding Different Diets: Mediterranean, Baltic sea, and Okinawa
EIT Food and University of Turin
This online course explored the main components of the Mediterranean, Baltic and Okinawa diets and how they affect the human health. We explored how these 3 diets influence the human health status, directly or indirectly through the modulation of the gut microbiota.
4 weeks, 2 hours per week
Maarten van der Kamp
Director of Education
EIT Food
Luca Cocolin
Professor at University of Torino
University of Turin
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Summarise the characteristics and benefits of the Mediterranean, Baltic and Okinawa diets
- Identify health-related properties of foods central to the three diets
- Describe the importance of healthy food frequency consumption
- Design at least one simple healthy recipe of one of the course diets
- Describe what an environmentally sustainable diet looks like (foods that improve or worsen the sustainability) and how the three example diets relate to this
- Reflect that there are many kinds of healthy diets and that these may be composed by using different foods and cultural approaches
Syllabus
- Scientific backgrounds of the Mediterranean diet, the Baltic sea diet, and the Okinawa diet
- A deeper insight into each type of diet with regards to their healthy aspects
- Healthy source of proteins
- The secrets of carbohydrates and oils
- Sustainability of the Mediterranean diet, the Baltic sea diet, and the Okinawa diet
Issued on 16th April 2019
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