Nutrition in Action

This online course is aimed at anyone working in the community that may engage in conversations about healthy eating with service users. This includes individuals from voluntary or community sector organisations (food bank workers, social supermarket volunteers/employees), local authorities (NHS or council such as outreach workers physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, social workers), or the commercial sector. The course aims to provide you with nutrition knowledge and guidance on how food and nutrition affects our physical and mental health.

It will also explore the EatWell Guide, portion sizes, food labelling, how to eat sustainably, eating on a budget and how the foods we consume can affect our mental health. The course will also introduce you to the concept of behaviour change, the theoretical underpinnings and strategies for supporting behaviour change. The course will also demonstrate the core components of client-based communication skills and allow you the opportunity to explore implementing them in real world scenarios.

This course is about bringing nutrition to life and making it more understandable and accessible to all. It is about making nutrition the heart of lifestyle behavioural change for you and the individuals you work with and providing the tools to actively support the beginnings of making eating behavioural changes. It provides an appreciation that change can be gradual, with even small changes having large impacts on current wellbeing and