Nutrition and Weight Management Advisor

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• Price: £169 £135

• This course will enable you to diversify your career and work as a nutrition and weight management advisor working with individual clients or running weight management groups. You will get the opportunity to investigate the important link between what you eat and your health, study the guidelines for energy intake and nutrient balance, and learn about process of digestion, the principles of effective weight management and how to help clients avoid the pitfalls of fad diets. We introduce the concept of eating for performance and briefly discuss some of the common supplements available today.

  Available at a great price, this course will enhance your skills as a fitness instructor or personal trainer and can be completed as a standalone course to work as a nutrition and weight management advisor.

  You will be equipped with the skills required to analyse food diaries and educate members of the public about the benefits of a healthy balanced diet and how to lose weight safely and effectively through changing the way they eat.

  Want to ease the cost of your training with the Lifetime pay as you learn scheme? See our flexible payment options here.

   

• • Nutrition and Weight Management

    A distance learning module where candidates are required to work through two manuals. Assessment is an invigilated multiple choice exam at a training venue and submission of a case study. This is a ma...

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    • A distance learning module where candidates are required to work through two manuals. Assessment is an invigilated multiple choice exam at a training venue and submission of a case study. This is a mandatory module for all personal training courses and comprises of the following units:

      Nutritional Components of Diet

      Identify the different macro and micro nutrients, what they do and what foods to obtain them from in the diet.

       Food Science

      An introduction to the biochemistry of different nutrients and food sources and how this impacts the body.

      Metabolism and Energy Balance

       Discover the only effective way to help clients lose weight and keep it off for good.  We evaluate the energy balance equation and learn how to bridge the gap between theory and practice.

       Nutrition and Health

      Learn the optimal balance of nutrients for good health and how this translates to real foods.

       Psychology of Eating

      Knowing nutrition theory is next to useless if you can’t work with clients to help them change their eating behaviours and lifestyle.  An introduction to behaviour change psychology gives you the tools you need to help clients make the changes needed to achieve their goals.

       Sports Nutrition

      An introduction to the fascinating world of performance enhancing nutrition.

       Using Food Diaries

      Learn how to implement food diaries effectively to get the most accurate reflection of your client’s eating habits and allow you to work with them to make the changes that will give the best results without depriving them of their favourite foods.

       Dietary Analysis

      Learn how to analyse food diaries efficiently and effectively.

       Calculating Energy Values of Food

      Find out how to get the most from reading food labels and teach your clients how to know which foods to choose when out shopping.

       Planning Balanced Diets

      Look at why diet plans don’t work and how to advise your client how to gradually introduce changes in their diet towards a healthy varied and balanced one.

       Weight Management Programmes

      Learn how to implement nutrition advice into your personal training sessions, and also consider offering additional services such as group weight management programs.

• Entry requirements

  There are no entry requirements for this course; however, in order to gain REPs status for this course you must have a REPs recognised Fitness Instructor or Exercise to Music qualification prior to commencing this course.

   

  Assessment and certification

  Assessment is through a theory exam and a case study. When successful students will be awarded the Lifetime Nutrition and Weight Management Award.