NUTRITION AWARENESS
 
Overview
Our online Nutrition Awareness course is designed to provide candidates with an introduction to Nutrition awareness and how best to enable service users to choose and consume food and drink by mouth. The actual support required by the service user will be dependent on their individual needs. Candidates will look at the effect of food on the body and general heath, how to make changes to supplement illness and how to identify the key minerals and nutrients required by the body. Candidates will gain an understanding about malnutrition and the implications of malnutrition on the individual.
 
Description
Learning Outcomes
 
What does nutrition mean?
Nutrients
Fruit and Vegetables
Nutrition and the Elderly
What are the implications of Malnutrition?
Factors leading to Malnutrition
Screening Tools
 
Duration
 
30 mins