In this video, you’ll meet a group of medical students from all around the world and hear how they perceive the place of nutrition in their curricula, as well as …
In this video, you’ll meet your educators based all over Europe and hear how they perceive the place of nutrition in the current medical doctor curricula, as well as their …
The World Health Organization estimated that up to 30% of cancer-related deaths could be prevented by modifying lifestyle, including diet and physical activity patterns. While the link between cancer and …
In order to identify food groups with a potentially detrimental effect on health and thus be able to guide public health policies on food, different food classification systems have appeared …
Many of the health problems today are linked to poor eating habits (Figure 1). Many people eat too much saturated fat, added salt, and added sugars. Reducing their intake can …
In this article, we show you how energy is provided to the body and why a balanced energy intake is important. Calorific Values of Nutrients In principle, the intake of …
A healthy diet during all stages of life is crucial to prevent several non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs), such as obesity and diabetes. Together with physical activity, a healthy diet is …
Before being able to consume food from the comfort of restaurants, humans were hunter-gatherers. In short, we hunted for game and collected wild plants and tubers. One major revolution that …
Welcome to the course. In this video, the course presenter explores the connection between planet, humans and human health. In recent years it has become clear that the Earth is …
In this video, Matt Eastland and Lukxmi Balathasan, EIT Food staff members and co-presenters of the Food Fight podcast, have a discussion with Dr. Margherita Ronco, GP at the municipality …
The primary individuals involved in lifestyle intervention are the patient and the clinician. In this video, the course presenter explores options available to general practitioners for lifestyle interventions, from goal-setting …
In this video, you will explore the nutrition recommendations at all stages of life starting from young age to late adulthood. We’d like you to reflect on what you have …
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM), also known as non-insulin dependent diabetes, currently represents a major threat to human health, with an estimated 425 million adult patients and 4 million deaths …
The saying goes “you can’t outrun a bad diet”, however, the opposite is equally true. Physical activity and nutrition go hand-in-hand with neither being more important than the other. In …
In 2021, a Food Systems Summit has been convened by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres as part of the Decade of Action for the Sustainable Development Goals. The Summit aims …