Nutrition & Diet

Aims & Objectives

This course has been designed to provide a good, basic understanding of nutrition. It emphasises the benefits of a healthy and varied diet to suit specific groups of people with special dietary needs. It will provide those individuals involved in the production of menus, purchase and preparation of food with the necessary knowledge to enable them to apply basic principles of nutrition to improve clients’ health.

Course Objectives

• What is a healthy diet
• Presentation and feeding
• Factors affecting food intake and choice
• Nutrients and their functions
• Human energy needs and energy sources
• Nutritional requirements of different groups
• The importance of a balanced diet
• Changes that may affect the British diet
• Promoting healthy eating with service users and their families and carers

Target Group

• This course is aimed at all employees working in a catering environment involved in the selection of menus, recipes and ingredients. It is particularly relevant for those working in the Health care and Education sectors.

Accredited

• This is a non-accredited course.

Additional Information

• This workshop will raise awareness of how appropriate diet and nutrition can help maintain an individual’s health and well being.