The Nutrition and Weight Management Advisor course from Lifetime Health and Fitness will enable you to work as a nutrition and weight management advisor working with individual clients or running weight management groups.
Course aims
The Nutrition and Weight Management Advisor training course will see students:
Investigate the important link between what you eat and your health.
Study the guidelines for energy intake and nutrient balance.
Learn about process of digestion, the principles of effective weight management and how to help clients avoid the pitfalls of fad diets.
Lifetime Health and Fitness will introduce the concept of eating for performance and briefly discuss some of the common supplements available today.
Nutrition and Weight Management Advisor course
The Nutrition and Weight Management Advisor course will enhance the skills of a fitness instructor or personal trainer but can be completed as a standalone course to work as a nutrition and weight management advisor.
The course will equip you 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.
Programmes of study
There are 11 key programmes of study within the Nutrition and Weight Management Advisor training course. These are:
Nutritional components of diet
Food science
Metabolism and energy balance
Nutrition and Health
Psychology of eating
Sports Nutrition
Using food diaries
Dietary analysis
Calculating energy values of food
Planning balanced diets
Weight management programmes
Each element will round off the students understanding of particular aspects when advising clients on their nutrition and weight management habits.
