Sports Nutrition Coach Online

Lesson 1 – Body Basics & Essentials of a Healthy Diet

Lesson one of our online nutrition course introduces you to the inner workings of the human body. Knowing your body basics is essential before you can learn about choosing which foods to eat that will work towards improving your health.

During this session of your online nutrition course, you will familiarise yourself with general patterns of healthy eating and explore the connection to between nutrition, disease and overall well-being. We will deep dive into the functioning of the digestive system and understand the correlation of organs working in tandem to digest, absorb and utilize the food you eat to keep you alive.

Complex concepts are simplified using fun and interesting analogies as you learn more about the building blocks of nutrition.

Lesson 2 – Carbohydrates

Carbohydrates are the preferred energy source for your body. But in recent years they have been denigrated as public enemy number one for being the root cause of obesity, diabetes, heart disease and more.

During lesson two of this nutrition certification, you will learn how macronutrients, such as carbohydrates, provide your body with fuel. We explore how carbohydrates are digested and what impact this can have on your body.

As you near the end of this class, you will be able to recognise and differentiate between healthy and unhealthy sources of carbohydrates with ease and understand the various forms of sweeteners, including their pros and cons.

Lesson 3 – Proteins

If you were in the Europe or USA and enquired, “What’s for dinner?”, you would typically be given a choice of meat as the central element to your meal. Grains (and certainly veggies) being more of an afterthought.

In lesson three of your path to this nutrition certification, you will learn about the importance of protein in your diet.

By the end this lesson of your online nutrition course, you will know how to understand and translate protein recommendations and will know which proteins to include in your diet more often and which you should avoid.

Lesson 4 – Fats

For years doctors, public health officials and even nutritionists told us to limit the consumption of fat. The reason – save your heart and lose weight. We now know that the focus should have been on the quality of the fat instead of simply the quantity.

As you progress further in your nutrition certification you will understand how dietary fat plays a critical role in the body. We will deep dive into the structure, naming and properties of various form of fat and look at ways that you can improve your health through clever fat substitutions.

You wrap up this lesson by busting some common fat myths and you will learn the truth about coconut oil, low fat products and eggs. You are that much closer to finishing your online nutrition course.