This course helps you understand obesity, particularly focusing on the affect of what we eat on weight.
Course Aim
To explain all aspects of how nutrition affects weight loss. It is an ideal course for people working with children in the child care industry, for personal trainers who want to know more about nutritional guidelines to support the advice they give their clients; for anyone working in the health sector with people who are concerned with current or previous weight gain.
CONTENTS
There are nine lessons in this course as follows:
1. Understanding Obesity
What is obesity
Types of Obesity – Hyperplasia or Hypertrophy of Fats Cells
Dietary Trends and the Incidence of Obesity
Factors Influencing Food Intake and Habits
Physiological factors which determine food intake
Environmental and behavioural factors which determine food intake:
Causes of Obesity (Genetics, Lifestyle, Exercise, Eating habits, Water intake, Changing metabolism through life, Medical conditions and disease, Psychology)
Health Risks of Obesity
Understanding Weight
Body composition
Evaluation Techniques – Body Mass Index (BMI)
2. Nutrition Basics
3. Diets -Fads, Fiction and Fact
A Review of Popular Approaches to Weight Loss and Control
Vegetarian Diets
Starvation
Very Low Calorie and Liquid Diets
Commercial Low Calorie Meal Substitutes
Commercial Low Calorie Meal Substitutes
Blood type diet
Food combining
Detox Diets
Low carbohydrate diets
Low Glycaemic index diet (low GI)
Sweeteners
Low fat diets
Fat Substitutes
Fat burning diets
Supplements
Guidelines for Childhood Weight Loss
4. Preventing Obesity
5. Treating Obesity
Methods that Work
Assessment of Clients or Patients
Modifying Behaviour
Prescribing Diets
Life Coach and Personal Trainer
Weight Loss Hypnosis
Self-help Groups
Health Clubs, Health Farms and Holiday Retreats
A Holistic Approach
Supplements
6. Modifying Eating Behaviour
Key Stages in Behaviour Changes
Cultural food patterns
How to Make Lifelong Changes
Assess Current Diet (patterns and nutritional value)
Plan for Change
Seek Motivation and Support from Others
Improving Health Through Food
Diseases Linked to Obesity
Changing Unhealthy Habits
7. Restricting Calorie Intake
Understanding Energy and Metabolism
Metabolism
Energy Metabolism
Age (Growth and Aging) and Metabolism
Activity and Metabolism
Calorie Restricted Diets
8. Medical Conditions: Hormones, Drugs, Eating Disorders
Nutrition During Disease
Childhood Diabetes
Link between Medication and Diet
Drugs and Hormones Prescribed for Weight Management
Diet Pills
Thyroid hormone
Somatropin (Growth Hormone
Weight Loss Surgery
Lipoplasty (Liposuction)
Abdominoplasty (Tummy tuck)
Anorexia Nervosa
Bulimia Nervosa
9. Planning a Diet
What qualification will I achieve for completing this course?
This is an individual module course. The individual module courses are 100 hour long usually and can be taken on their own or as part of a larger program of study.
If you wish to take an individual module course as a stand alone course, you can elect to sit an optional exam at the end of it.
If you successfully pass the exam and all assignments, you will receive a Statement of Attainment. You can take examinations at a time and location to suit you. If you enrol, you will be sent further information on how to arrange examinations at the end of the course.
If you do not wish to take the exam, you will receive a Course Completion letter when you have passed all assignments.
There is an assignment at the end of each lesson. So for example, if an individual module course contains ten lessons, you will need to complete ten assignments. Assignments can be sent to us via email, post or fax.
Other qualifications, such as certificates, diplomas etc may require examinations to be taken as part of the overall assessment process.
You can find further information on the examinations process by clicking on the “Enrolment” link above.
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EXTRACT FROM COURSE NOTES :
There are two types of obesity – this theory is been based on differences between the anatomical characteristics of adipose tissues. Adipose tissue is the loose connective tissue which is responsible for energy storage in the form of fat (lipids). It also provides insulation from heat and cold and offers protective padding around vital organs e.g. the liver.
Hyperplasia
Adipose tissue contains several cell types, with the highest percentage of cells being adipocytes (more commonly known as fat cells), which contain fat droplets. The two different types of obesity are seen in children and adults, with one more predominately identified in children and the other predominately found in adults.
Hypertrophy
Lesson Aims
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