Nutrition and Health: Micronutrients and Malnutrition Training

Module 1: Basic Principles of micronutrients
Start the course by learning about the general principles that apply to vitamins and minerals.

Module 2: Water, minerals, trace elements
In this module you will look at the health effects of water, and will cover the various dietary minerals.

Module 3: Fat soluble vitamins and health Learn about the fat soluble vitamins: vitamin A, vitamin D and vitamin E.

Module 4: Water soluble vitamins and health For this module, you’ll shift your focus to a few of the water soluble vitamins: vitamin C, folate and vitamin B12.

Module 5: The global burden of micronutrient malnutrition
Discuss the prevalence and trends of micronutrient deficiencies
and their geographical distribution. We will also talk about the double burden of malnutrition.

Module 6: Global solutions to micronutrient deficiencies
This module will outline the available strategies to alleviate micronutrient malnutrition.

Module 7: Insight in the future of Nutritional Science (verified learners only)
In this module you will get to see some of the exciting research that is currently being done in the field of Nutritional Science.