Course overview
This foundation level course aims to develop an understanding of the relationship between diet, nutrition, exercise and health and on completion be able to provide general advice to apparently healthy clients. This course aligns with the program intent to apply evidence-based skills and knowledge to assess and improve health and wellbeing within a community setting.
Course learning outcomes
- Describe the basic functions of macronutrients, their common sources, and their role in energy balance and general wellbeing
- Evaluate the diets of individuals according to sound nutritional criteria, use current guidelines to provide appropriate general advice on nutrition and identify the strengths and limitations of commonly used methods for measuring and analysing dietary intake
- Identify nutritionally vulnerable groups in Australian society and inappropriate dietary behaviour
- Describe the relationship between diet and specific lifestyle diseases
- Evaluate controversial issues in nutrition, including common fad diets and use of ergogenic aids
- Critically evaluate evidence that underpins nutrition advice and recognise when information in popular press cannot be substantiated
- Apply nutrition principles to exercise and sports science
Degree list
The following degrees include this course