A certificate-level course for nutrition assistants, community health workers, school and hospital caterers, and anyone starting a career in nutrition. It begins with the foundations: nutrients and their functions, digestion and metabolism, and balanced diets built from Kenyan foods. It then applies them to nutrition through the life cycle, nutritional assessment with worked BMI and MUAC examples, malnutrition, introductory diet therapy for diabetes, hypertension, HIV and kidney disease, community nutrition and food security, food hygiene, institutional meal planning and professional ethics. The course is educational and does not replace a doctor, clinical nutritionist or dietician for individual medical advice. It covers the classroom theory of nutrition and dietetics; practical skills need supervised practical sessions and field attachment, and national examinations (KNEC) are registered and taken separately.
10h14 lessonsVerifiable certificate
$223.00
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