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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Causes of Human Disease: Nutrition and Environment
This online course explored nutritional and environmental factors, and how these factors contribute to the development of human disease.
This course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles. By completing the course the learner has achieved 14 hours of CPD time.
2 weeks, 4 hours per week
Michael Routledge
Associate Professor of Environmental Toxicology
University of Leeds
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore how poor nutrition and diet contributes to malnutrition and disease.
- Report on the nutritional and protective qualities of specific diets.
- Investigate toxins present in food and how they contribute to human disease.
- Describe how waterborne chemical toxins can have an adverse effect on health.
- Reflect on how air pollution can contribute to the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Syllabus
- The importance of vitamins and minerals for human health.
- Protein and Energy Malnutrition (PEM): the causes, and physical and physiological symptoms.
- Obesity: its presentation, causes and consequences.
- Food toxins and the risk to health.
- Contribution of environmental toxins and the association with human disease.
- Waterborne toxins and the impact on health.
- Air pollution and its contribution to cardiovascular diseases.
Accreditation
This course has been certified by the CPD Certification Service as conforming to continuing professional development principles. By completing the course the learner has achieved 14 hours of CPD time.
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Issued on 5th February 2020
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