Why Doctors Need To Know About Nutrition – The Students’ Perspectives
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 …
Course: Nutrition for Health and Sustainability
Why Doctors Need To Know About Nutrition – The Educators’ Perspectives
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 …
Diet and Cancer
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 …
Ultra-processed food and health
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 …
Nutritional Functions and Health Effects of Consuming Excess Refined Sugar, Salt and Unhealthy Fats
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 …
Calorie Values and Energy Intake From Foods
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 …
The principles of a healthy diet
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 …
Historical Eating Patterns
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 …
Why it’s important to rethink what we eat and how we produce it
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 …
Why doctors need to know about nutrition – the health specialists’ perspectives
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 menu of lifestyle intervention
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 …
How your nutritional needs change through your life
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 …
Case study: Type 2 diabetes
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 importance of physical activities
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 …
UN Food Systems Summit
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 …