Nutrigold launches online nutrition course!

andywren77 on 04 23, 2010

Do you fancy developing a career in Naturopathic Nutrition? Maybe you want to use nutrition to support a different naturopathic discipline, or perhaps you want to be empowered to prepare comprehensive nutritional regimes for your family and friends? If so, there’s never been a better time to get involved!

Following the much awaited launch of Nutrigold’s new fully accredited online, Nutrition and Health Course, on the 13th April 2010, it has now become one of the most popular ways to learn the merits of Naturopathic Nutrition from the comfort of your own home. In the past week we had over one hundred and sixty students enrol on this course and judging by the students feedback their finding it to be a most rewarding experience. The students are telling us that they are enjoying the course and finding the course to be very well presented and its contents to be most informative.

Having already given away over £40,000 worth of online courses, to give everyone a real opportunity to learn more about Naturopathic Nutrition, The Nutrigold Education Team have decided to make this premium quality accredited nutritional course available to everyone for less than a third of its normal recommended price of £250.00. For a limited time only It’s available for £75.00, this offer lasts until July 30th 2010. So don’t miss out enrol today!

So let’s tell you about the Home Study Nutritional Course.

Nutrition and Health Certificate

Today everyone needs to know some basics of nutrition! The importance of the subject is very real and pressing. This course will give you some information that can make a big difference in your life. Applying this knowledge will lead towards a better standard of well-being now, and prolonging good health in the future. This course is ideal for anyone who wants to know more at moderate depth. It is delivered entirely by distance learning and upon successful completion, leads to a certificate in nutrition from The Nutrigold Education Service.

However, while this course serves as an excellent introduction to nutritional therapy, it is not designed to be undertaken by a fully trained Nutritional Therapist. These people are trained to treat the sick through nutritional means and require much fuller professional training with a wealth of medical knowledge. However, this course could be a first step towards that goal, since it can give you exposure to the field and help you to decide whether or not nutritional therapy could become either your future profession or a very useful extension of what you already do. After completing the Nutrition & Health Course, you may think that you would like to take the subject further, but with a more clinical slant to enable you to use nutrition within your practice. To help people move forward, after they complete the Home Study Nutrition & Health Course, we are looking into the possibility of developing a new section that can be simply added to the first section of the Home Study Nutrition & Health Course which will deliver valuable information on how to employ traditional naturopathic techniques to deliver an effective treatment for some of the more common illnesses. We envisage that this will be a course of similar size and depth to the Home Study Nutrition & Health Course, but is directed much more towards a clinical perspective. It does not go into the same scientific depth as full Nutritional Therapist Course, but it will nonetheless provide you with the ability to design dietary and supplementary regime’s to underpin good health. The aim here may be either to maintain existing good health or to improve the health of people with moderate symptom levels. We are also exploring the possibility that our Standard Home Study Nutrition & Health Course, with the addition or a further ten hours of contact training, may allow our successful students to join The FNTP, as a registered Nutritional Advisor (you can find out more about them by login on to www.fntp.org.uk). This is particularly appropriate where you have a practice in another alternative medicine discipline and wish to use nutrition as a significant adjunct (reflexology, aromatherapy, kinesiology, acupuncture, homoeopathy etc.).

Nutrition and Health Certificate

Our course in nutrition and health will teach you basic nutritional principles and help you formulate healthy diets and set out well-informed programmes when faced with the bewildering array of nutritional supplements on the shelves today. Specifically, it will help you:

1. Gain a general understanding of the subject;
2. Grasp the fundamentals of the cell’s need for nutrients;
3. Appreciate the role of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals;
4. Understand the basics of how these nutrients work in the body;
5. Be aware of the enormous health benefits that can come from favourable dietary change;
6.Appreciate the merits of particular foods and nutrients.

It goes without saying that it is better to practice this art, armed with a Certificate or Diploma that reflects the appropriate level of study and knowledge, and which gives assurance to your patients.

The course consists of twelve sections of written material and two textbooks (at an additional cost). You will be guided from course notes to the texts and back again in accordance with a straightforward programme of study.

At the end of certain sections you complete a multiple choice question sheet, which serves to check comprehension and coverage. There is no formal examination for you to worry about. These sheets should then be sent to us on completion of all sections for checking. A Certificate in Nutrition and Health will be issued to you if you have shown us that you have read and thoroughly understood the course.

These questions sheets must be returned to us within six months. If you are having difficulty in meeting this deadline, however, we are prepared to grant an extension if you have good reasons and you write to ask for an extension of time.

Section 1
This teaches the basic science of the bulk nutrients, protein, carbohydrate and fat. These are the suppliers of food energy, essential amino acids and fatty acids. You will want to understand these so as to manipulate them with skill.

Section 2
This will illuminate the nature of the cell and explain how the energy of the cell is generated and what functions the cell must perform using that energy. It explains calories as units of energy measurement and the dynamic role of the enzymes in the cells.

Section 3
This explains the importance of the controlled environment inside the cell. It particularly stresses how important it is to maintain the balance between sodium and potassium and between calcium and magnesium.

Section 4
This shows you how the cell needs to remain vital and active and to maintain the integrity of its energy systems and enzymes. It stresses the cell’s need to excrete waste and toxic materials and to actively cleanse. This approach is both naturopathic and science-based.

Section 5
This emphasises and explains the importance of microminerals. It shows them in their role as enzyme activators and how they contribute in this way to cell energy and to maintaining the cell’s integrity and function. It explains the key roles and characteristics of individual microminerals.

Section 6
This covers the entire group of vitamins. It shows how they activate enzymes, contribute to cell energy and increase vitality. It explains their differing functions and characteristics.

Section 7
This explains how the complex population of bacteria in the intestines contribute to maintaining vitality and health. In particular, it will become clear how these bacteria aid cleansing and the maintenance of a good environment within the body, which is so essential to good health. It includes how to nurture your own bowel flora organisms.

Section 8
This identifies the ’suppressive’ foods – those which block the body’s elimination of toxins. It separates them from the ‘eliminative’ foods – those which enable or enhance the voiding of toxins. It gives the characteristics (in this respect) of the main food groups. It will tell you what problem foods to avoid and identify the acid-producing foods.

Section 9
This provides a great deal of data on the composition of foods, their content and the main differences between them. This is a working mass of data to enable your own design of health-giving diets.

Section 10
This is an introduction to allergies or intolerances – what they are; physical signs and symptoms, the most frequent; masked/hidden and/or addictive allergies; causes of allergy – food, chemical, emotional and mental; stages of allergy; different types of allergy – fixed, variable, cyclic; managing allergies and sensitivities – how to handle them; rotation diets (including the rotation chart); allergy testing and its limitations; food additives and chemicals; the role of nutrition in all this.

Section 11
This provides clear guidance on designing maintenance nutritional diets that, compared to most ordinary diets, should improve health.

Section 12
This explains and demystifies the subject of vitamin and mineral supplements and their use. It enables you to design simple maintenance and health-giving programmes of supplementation.

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