Our distance learning Nutrition Advisor diploma course provides graduates with the skills and knowledge to offer safe and effective basic advice regarding diet and lifestyle. The prime role of a Nutrition Advisor is to educate individuals/consumers about dietary advice to help them achieve optimal health. From the very first module you’ll know how to help people overcome a number of today’s commonly encountered health problems through dietary adjustments
In 2004 The World Health Organisation (WHO) Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health highlighted the potential for improving health through measures that reduce the major risk factors for most illnesses in developed countries. Most of these risk factors are closely related to the unhealthy and excessive diets and physical inactivity that, in the early years of the 21st century, have led to the escalation of major disorders such as type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and certain types of cancer. The WHO placed the onus on individual governments to take steps to redress these problems
WHO Global Strategy on Diet, Physical Activity and Health
Mounting scientific evidence of the relationship between diet, micronutrient status and the development of disease will contribute to establishing optimum
nutrition and healthy lifestyle as the first line medicine in coming years. Diet and physical activity influence health both together and separately. Although the effects of diet and physical activity on health often interact, particularly in relation to obesity, there are additional health benefits to be gained from physical activity that are independent of nutrition and diet, and there are significant nutritional risks that are unrelated to obesity
A Nutrition Advisor does not have the extent of training needed to assist people who have received a medical diagnosis – for this qualification training would need to extend to the full Naturopathic Nutritional Therapy course. But, as observed by the WHO, the majority of our modern diseases are the result of inappropriate diet and lifestyle – two factors that are within the scope of a Nutrition Advisor. The aim of this course is to provide you with the knowledge to play an integral part in the delivery of this world-wide health strategy
From the very first module you will know how to resolve a number of common health problems, starting with the digestive system. Subsequent modules provide the building blocks to progressively increase your healing skills
