Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Nutrition and Age-Related Chronic Diseases
This course explores nutritional management and the diseases that arise from ageing. These diseases include metabolic syndrome, obesity, osteoporosis, neurodegeneration problems like dementia, and Alzheimer's disease and the mechanic of immune and inflammatory responses.
4 weeks, 2 hours per week
Yang, Suh-Ching
Professor and Director, School of Nutrition and Health Sciences, College of Nutrition, TMU
Taipei Medical University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Evaluate the dietary patterns and habits that may increase the health risk of metabolic syndrom, hypercholesterolemia, and hypertension.
- Explore the role of nutrition in the prevention and management of sarcopenia, including the essential nutrients for muscle health.
- Identify Mediterranean dietary pattern.
- Evaluate the role of nutrition in the prevention and management of osteoporosis.
- Exaplain the role of nutrition in modulating immunosenescence, including the effects of various nutrients on the immune system and the mechanisms of action.
Syllabus
- Nutritional Management of Sarcopenia
- Neurodegeneration, Metabolic Syndrome, and Dietary Patterns
- Nutritional Management for Elderly with Metabolic Syndrome and Osteoporosis
- Immunosenescenceand Nutrition
Issued on 29th May 2025
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