Nutrition & Weight Management Advisor course

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.

Contact Lifetime Health & Fitness Call Lifetime Health & Fitness on 0870 702 7273

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