Nutrition Workshop - Nutrition and Diseases
Understand diet-related diseases and place nutritional therapy in context
From lipid metabolism disorders through type 2 diabetes to lactose intolerance: the most common diet-related diseases and their nutritional therapy.
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What our graduates say
Show all reviewsDer Ernährungsworkshop zum Thema "Ernährung und Krankheiten" war äußerst informativ und hat meine Erwartungen übertroffen. Die Vorträge waren klar strukturiert und gut verständlich, und die Möglichkeit, individuelle Fragen zu stellen, war sehr hilfreich. Vielen Dank für die großartige Organisation und Durchführung!
Balanced ways of eating have the potential to raise our well-being and our health. Conversely, malnutrition and overnutrition lead to health limitations and, in the end, to illness and death. This module deals with the most common and most relevant diet-related diseases – and with the nutritional therapy that comes into play with them.
What you learn
- The influence of nutrition on health – with a look at the situation in Switzerland
- National and international strategies against non-communicable diseases
- Gut health as a chapter in its own right
- Health-promoting ways of eating: Mediterranean diet and DASH diet
- Further models compared: the dietary recommendations of the USA, the Healthy Eating Pyramid according to Willett, the Longevita diet
- Diet-related diseases and their therapy: lipid metabolism disorders, fatty liver, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease
- Special nutrition in gluten intolerance, lactose intolerance and fructose malabsorption
- Recognising food allergies and taking them into account in counselling
Who the workshop suits
The workshop suits trainers, personal trainers and advisers who regularly meet diabetes, raised blood lipid levels or intolerances among their clients and want to know what lies behind them. It is one module of the Nutrition Coach training programme and it also makes sense when you want to draw the limits of your own competence cleanly and refer on to a specialist in good time.
How the workshop runs
The Nutrition Workshop - Nutrition and Disease consists of guided self-study e-learning (approx. 30 – 40 hours). After registration you receive the login details for the learning platform, which guides you through the workshop step by step. The learning happens online, free of fixed times and places.
- Self-study with the course script Nutrition and Disease
- The complete script also as audio files to listen to
- Learning videos and flashcards on the most important reference values
- A folder with background material: the Swiss nutrition strategy and the NCD strategy, WHO papers, the BAG fact sheet as well as cited studies on the Mediterranean diet and the DASH diet – for going deeper, not relevant for the test
- Knowledge test with 30 randomly selected questions in a maximum of 30 minutes, passed with more than 80 per cent correct answers, up to three attempts
Before the knowledge test you fill in the feedback form. For questions about the content, the training team of the update Akademie is there for you. Once you have passed the knowledge test, you receive the confirmation by e-mail within seven days.
Where things go from here
If the foundation for this module is missing, the Nutrition Fundamentals workshop is the right run-up; for putting things into practice in conversation, the Nutrition Counselling workshop follows. All the modules together form the Nutrition Coach training programme. The page on Nutrition Workshops offers an overview of all the individual courses.
What our graduates say
Der Ernährungsworkshop zum Thema "Ernährung und Krankheiten" war äußerst informativ und hat meine Erwartungen übertroffen. Die Vorträge waren klar strukturiert und gut verständlich, und die Möglichkeit, individuelle Fragen zu stellen, war sehr hilfreich. Vielen Dank für die großartige Organisation und Durchführung!
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Frequently asked questions
Which diet-related diseases does the workshop cover?
It covers lipid metabolism disorders, fatty liver, type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease together with the nutritional therapy for each of them. A further part is devoted to special nutrition in gluten intolerance, lactose intolerance, fructose malabsorption and food allergies.
Who is the Nutrition and Disease workshop suitable for?
It suits specialists from fitness, exercise and nutrition counselling who deal with clients in limited health in their daily work. The workshop is one module of the Nutrition Coach training programme and can be taken on its own.
Does the workshop work with scientific sources?
Yes. Alongside the script, the learning platform holds a folder with further literature and the studies cited in the script: among other things the Swiss nutrition strategy, the NCD strategy, WHO papers, the BAG fact sheet on non-communicable diseases as well as studies on the Mediterranean diet and the DASH diet. For the knowledge test the script alone is relevant.
How do I complete the workshop?
After the feedback form you sit the knowledge test on the learning platform: 30 randomly selected questions in a maximum of 30 minutes, passed with more than 80 per cent correct answers and with up to three attempts. The workshop confirmation then arrives by e-mail within seven days.