Objectives

To identify the basis of a healthy diet.

To know the composition of the different food groups.

To identify the basic principles of the Mediterranean diet and its benefits.

To know first hand how to plan diets according to the recommendations.

Content

Methodology

Entre el material entregado en este curso se adjunta un documento llamado Guía del Alumno dónde aparece un horario de tutorías telefónicas y una dirección de e-mail dónde podrá enviar sus consultas, dudas y ejercicios. Además recibirá los materiales didácticos que incluye el curso para poder consultarlos en cualquier momento y conservarlos una vez finalizado el mismo.La metodología a seguir es ir avanzando a lo largo del itinerario de aprendizaje online, que cuenta con una serie de temas y ejercicios. Para su evaluación, el alumno/a deberá completar todos los ejercicios propuestos en el curso. La titulación será remitida al alumno/a por correo una vez se haya comprobado que ha completado el itinerario de aprendizaje satisfactoriamente.

What does it prepare you for?

This Food and Nutrition Assistant Course prepares you to participate in Clinical and Community Nutrition programs at a preventive level, with programs to promote healthy lifestyle habits and to plan diets according to the different recommendations and food composition tables. In addition, you will be able to identify the main dietary and nutritional aspects in different population groups.

Who is it aimed at?

This course is especially aimed at TCAE, although it is a degree within the University's own teachings that does not qualify for professional practice, so that according to Article 37.7 of Royal Decree 822/2021, of September 28, which establishes the organization of university education and the procedure for quality assurance for the degrees included in the University's own teachings that do not require a previous university degree for access to them, the purpose of these courses is the expansion and updating of knowledge, competences and training or professional skills that contribute to a better labor insertion of citizens without a university degree, so it will be open to any person without a university degree in health access who is interested in doing it.

Career opportunities

The job opportunities of this course of Assistant in Food and Nutrition are aimed at health personnel who wish to be trained in Nutrition, from the physiological basis to the creation of diets and cover various professional fields such as clinical nutrition, research or dissemination in health.