Nutrition and Health: Micronutrients and Malnutrition

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Free Online Course (Audit)
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English
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$199.00 Certificate Available
Duration & workload

7 weeks long, 6-8 hours a week
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Level

Intermediate
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English

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Food, Nutrition and Health

Overview

There is an overload of information about nutrition and health, but what is the truth and what can you do to improve the health of your patients? Learn more about nutrition and how our diet profoundly impacts our current and future health. This course addresses the relationship between nutrition and human health, with a focus on health problems related to malnutrition.

In this course, Professor Sander Kersten from Wageningen University & Research will explain about the micronutrient (vitamins, minerals, and trace elements) content of foods. You will learn about their role in the body and their impact on our health. Moreover, this course will discuss how suboptimal nutrition may affect human health, with particular attention to malnutrition and global hunger. You will learn about strategies to improve and combat these problems of malnutrition. Finally, the course will make you familiar with nutritional research and research methodologies.

For whom?

This MOOC is especially useful for health care professionals and people working in the food industry with a non-nutrition background. You will develop a critical mind set by learning to better weigh and interpret information about food, nutrition and health. to improve overall health

This course, is part of the Food, Nutrition and Health Professional Certificate Program of Wageningen University & Research. Did you already complete Nutrition and Health: Macronutrients and Overnutrition? That is the first course in the Food, Nutrition and Health Professional Certificate Program. To explore other learning opportunities about nutrition, have a look at the courses

Food Risks
Human Microbiome
Nutrition and Cancer
Nutrition, Heart Disease and Diabetes

Syllabus

Module 1: Basic Principles of micronutrients
Start the course by learning about the general principles that apply to vitamins
and minerals.

Module 2: Water, minerals, trace elements
In this module you will look at the health effects of water, and will cover the various
dietary minerals.

Module 3: Fat soluble vitamins and health
Learn about the fat soluble vitamins: vitamin A, vitamin D and vitamin E.

Module 4: Water soluble vitamins and health
For this module, you'll shift your focus to a few of the water soluble vitamins: vitamin C, folate and vitamin B12.

Module 5: The global burden of micronutrient malnutrition
Discuss the prevalence and trends of micronutrient deficiencies
and their geographical distribution. We will also talk about the double burden of
malnutrition.

Module 6: Global solutions to micronutrient deficiencies
This module will outline the available strategies to alleviate micronutrient
malnutrition.

Module 7: Insight in the future of Nutritional Science (verified learners only)
In this module you will get to see some of the exciting research that is currently being
done in the field of Nutritional Science.

Taught by

Sander Kersten

Reviews

4.7 rating, based on 204 Class Central reviews

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Agustiah Agustiah @agustiah

Very informative course.
This course improved my knowledge and skill to choose better food for myself and people around me
Mohammad Damoun Dahir @damoun

I found this course quite interesting, engaging and informative. It made me learn lots of things under the umbrella of micronutrients along with answers to many questions I earlier had to understand the cause of global burden of micronutrients and work done in this field for its solution and overcome the deficiencies.

I would highly recommend this course for those who are interested or looking for building their career in subject like these.
Julius Darius Ochet

I am Darius currently finishing my undergraduate degree in Gastronomic Sciences. A couple of months ago, I shared with a friend my desire to advance my knowledge and pursue a career in nutrition and food-related behavior. She recommended for me this program...

I am Darius currently finishing my undergraduate degree in Gastronomic Sciences. A couple of months ago, I shared with a friend my desire to advance my knowledge and pursue a career in nutrition and food-related behavior. She recommended for me this program and I am very satisfied with the knowledge I got from this program. The study materials provide all the basic, even better necessary information about the this important area of micronutrients and and malnutrition. The professors are very passionate about what they do in their areas of specialization and interests; this you can tell from their personal stories they tell, the research they have done or doing and the coherence in their course presentation and delivery.

I absolutely feel lucky to have done this short course and the satisfaction that it has brought me is amazing.

Good luck for the other people that will join in for this program in future. I hope you will enjoy as much as I did. And thank you University of Wageningen via edX for this opportunity.
Anonymous

This course helps me to learn all about lipids, carbohydrates, proteins and various things, I have learned so much from the professors of Wageningen University via edX, • The videos, and the reading sections are very understandable and easy to learn. • The...

This course helps me to learn all about lipids, carbohydrates, proteins and various things, I have learned so much from the professors of Wageningen University via edX,

• The videos, and the reading sections are very understandable and easy to learn.

• The graded questions are vital to examine your knowledge about the things you have learned.

• Practice questions makes your graded exam much easier I would say. And I will definitely apply each and every thing in my daily routine which I have learned from this course.

• After completing the course I have sufficient knowledge that how to calculate my Dietary Score, which is also a huge part of your diet.

I would strongly recommend you guys to try courses from Wageningen University in whatever field you are interested in, I am 100% sure their other courses will also be quite fascinating.
Anonymous

A good course worth doing because of the wealth of information disseminated in easy to read, hear and understand modes. Will be able to understand the importance of adequate nutrition and components needed to consumed to achieve it. The impact of micronutrients in the world's malnutrition scenario is well explained and appreciated.
Anonymous

I thoroughly enjoyed the course on Micronutrients and Malnutrition especially all the interviews presented by professionals in the field of Nutrition. I liked listening to the the experiences from different Professors who spent years out in the field doing research studies of Micronutrients in countries like Ghana, Guatemala and Bangladesh. This course opened my eyes to the challenge of preventing malnutrition on a global scale. I highly recommend this course to anyone who is interested in helping others to improve their health and how to better interpret information released on social media sites about health, nutrition and types of food.
Anonymous

I love this course. It's very informative and easy to understand.
Before I took this course, I was not fully interested and understanding about micronutrients. However, the course not only changed my opinion but also gave me a lot of insightful and valuable information about how I should eat and look at foods and how I can maintain my diet and health better. I shared the information from the course with my husband, and it also helped my husband. He told me that he does not feel much stress anymore! Thank you!
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Great job! I found the course very informative. It's also very well structured. I personally hold a degree in Linguistics and Management and I'm passionate about Nutrition Science. I was really concerned if I should take the courses on Macro and Micronutrients...

Great job!
I found the course very informative. It's also very well structured. I personally hold a degree in Linguistics and Management and I'm passionate about Nutrition Science. I was really concerned if I should take the courses on Macro and Micronutrients as I believed it would be very difficult to grasp completely new and difficult topics. And although some topics are quite challenging, overall the team did an excellent job of providing the information so that it's understandable and easy to remember. What I also appreciate is the quality and quantity of references for additional reading. Last but not least, the course's objective is worth mentioning: to empower the audience to think critically about Nutrition and related topics. I believe this goal is well achieved. For the above reasons, I highly recommend this course.
Thanks a lot!
Anonymous

After taking up this course, I better understand micronutrients, how and why people need them, and how it affects our body. I have learned a lot about the benefits of all the different types of vitamins and understand who should take them. Furthermore, the understanding Malnutrition that can cause different kinds of sickness. I am glad that I have enrolled on this course to gain knowledge of Food, Health and Nutrition.
Anonymous

I really enjoyed learning the micronutrients and malnutrition course. The course was challenging at times but also very interesting. I appreciate professors are supportive and making this course enjoyable. The course has a tons of valuable information, and I learned so much. I look forward to continue taking another course (Macronutrients) and working toward the professional certification.
Anonymous

Actually so many of our country people are suffering with micronutrient deficiency but we don't have proper guidance to do research . This course is excellent ,i felt happy to see Mr, Zimmerman ,my INSPIRATION so many things i learned from his books, Thank you for this great opportunity.

Sairam
Dr.Padmavathy.
Anonymous

I thought it was super well explained and educational for anyone with an entry level or intermediate level of nutrition and that even if you do it in a rush as a last minute qualification you'll get something out of it
Anonymous

I have learnt a lot from the renowned experience faculty and guest lectures from outside the university. I thank the Edx and Wageningen University for the learning opportunity.

Dr Narasimha Rao Gaddamanugu
Hiba YACOUB

the course was great with a content of quality, I've learned a lot on the vitamins and minreals topic; though I would have loved if we had more content developed on trace elements as well.
Ashton Taylor

This course was amazing, the information was easy to follow, the teacher was funny, and for once I actually was happy to learn about something. This is the best course I've taken so far.
Anonymous

Excellent course. I would recommend for all the practitioners in nutrition and health sectors across the globe please pursue this course. Your knowledge level certainly will improve
Anonymous

I thought it was very good in general. It would be nice to see more interviews from local organizations and people working in developing countries.
Anonymous

Yes, I already talked few friends of mine about this program and they are very interested. Thanks for lot for this amazing course
Anonymous

I really enjoyed doing this course. I like the format and the way they are explained.
I do think that it needs to be updated.
Anonymous

It has allowed me to update and review my knowledge on nutrition as the same time that I am working full time in topics related to fortification and amino acids