Become a qualified nutritionist and fast track your career from the comfort of your own home with the Diet and Nutrition Diploma. This diploma course is endorsed by Quality Licence Scheme – a regulated organisation that ensures professional, reputable certification for further education.
This course introduces the fundamentals of food and nutrition and the importance of a balanced diet for leading a healthy lifestyle. You will learn how to incorporate healthy eating habits into your everyday life, and explore the effects of health and nutrition on the human body.Â
Throughout this course, you will develop your understanding of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins to help you make better food choices. Weight management, food labelling, child nutrition, and the benefits of healthy dieting and detoxification is also discussed in depth. On successful completion, you will have the practical knowledge to able to implement a healthy diet plan and kickstart your health journey.
Learning Objectives
- Have a firm understanding of the basics of human nutrition.
- Get introduced to the inner health and outer beauty and know their power.
- Gain the ability to maintain the primary responsibilities of the professional nutritionist.
- Have a deeper understanding of the digestive system that impacts overall human health and wellbeing.
- Develop your confidence to help and advise those with common eating disorders
- Understand dietary balance and its value to human health.
- Learn the right ways of offering help and support to people with varying dietary requirements.
- Understand how diet can affect the ageing process both internally and externally.
- Explore interesting concepts regarding weight loss, weight management, looking healthy and beautiful.
- Learn about women’s dietary necessities and how it changes throughout life.
- Gain a thorough understanding of the close connection between diet and disease.
- Discover how dietary balance affects the immune system.
Why study Diet and Nutrition?
Being a nutritionist is one of the world’s most relevant, fulfilling and fascinating modern professions. At present, qualified nutritionists are in greater demand than ever before and started working towards rewarding and well-paid careers.
Nutrition is a fundamental of good health and a sound mind. Having a thorough knowledge of nutrition will help you to become a qualified nutritionist, and you can advise others on nutrition in your professional practice.
Enrol today and take your initial steps towards the most incredibly lucrative, rewarding and satisfying career in diet and nutrition! If you want to know more about our Diet and Nutrition Diploma course, contact our customer executives today!
Who is this course for?
This endorsed Diet and Nutrition Diploma is suitable for anyone who wants to fast track their career in the health and nutrition industry. This training program is also ideal for individuals who wish to improve their dietary habits and expand their knowledge of nutrition and healthy eating. On completion, you will receive an internationally-recognised certificate which will help to kickstart your personal or professional fitness journey, whether you desire to become a nutritionist, personal trainer, or start your own business.
Requirements
Our Diet and Nutrition Diploma is open to all from all academic backgrounds and there is no specific requirements to attend this course. It is compatible and accessible from any device including Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Tablets etc.
Accreditation
At the end of this course successful learners will receive a Certificate of Achievement from Quality Licence Scheme and Certa Awards and a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).
The course has been endorsed under the Quality Licence Scheme and Certa Awards Quality Licence Scheme. This means that Euston College has undergone an external quality check to ensure that the organisation and the courses it offers, meet defined quality criteria. The completion of this course alone does not lead to a regulated qualification* but may be used as evidence of knowledge and skills gained. The Learner Unit Summary may be used as evidence towards Recognition of Prior Learning if you wish to progress your studies in this subject. To this end the learning outcomes of the course have been benchmarked at Level 5 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of study and level of demand/complexity involved in successful completion by the learner.
The course itself has been designed by Euston College to meet specific learners’ and/or employers’ requirements which cannot be satisfied through current regulated qualifications.  Quality Licence Scheme/Certa endorsement involves robust and rigorous quality audits by external auditors to ensure quality is continually met. A review of courses is carried out as part of the endorsement process.
Quality Licence Scheme and Certa Awards have long-established reputations for providing high quality vocational qualifications across a wide range of industries. Quality Licence Scheme and Certa Awards combine over 180 years of expertise combined with a responsive, flexible and innovative approach to the needs of our customers.
Renowned for excellent customer service, and quality standards, Quality Licence Scheme and Certa Awards also offer regulated qualifications for all ages and abilities post-14; all are developed with the support of relevant stakeholders to ensure that they meet the needs and standards of employers across the UK.
Certification
Endorsed Certificate of Achievement
At the successful completion of the course, the learners can order an endorsed certificate by paying the accreditation fee of £108. There is an additional £10 postal charge for international students.
Certificate of Completion from Euston College
At the successful completion of the course, the learners may order the Certificate of Completion from Euston College (soft copy) by paying only £2. For the Printed hard copy of the certificate, the learners have to pay £9.
Career path
On successful completion, you will be able to explore many opportunities within the field of diet and nutrition. Related job roles include:
- Public health nutritionist
- Dietician
- Community nutritionist
- Health and wellbeing coach
- Consultant nutritionist
- Nutrition and dietetics researcher
- Nutrition consultant
- Research nutritionist
- Therapeutic nutritionist
Course Curriculum
| Module 1: Basics of Food and Nutrition | |||
| Basics of Food and Nutrition | 00:15:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 01 | |||
| Module 01 Final Quiz Exam – Diet and Nutrition | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 2: Macronutrients: Classification & Functions of Carbohydrates | |||
| Macronutrients: Carbohydrates | 00:20:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 02 | |||
| Module 02 Final Quiz Exam – Diet and Nutrition | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 3: Macronutrients: Classification & Functions of Lipids and Proteins | |||
| Macronutrients: Lipids and Proteins | 00:25:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 03 | |||
| Module 03 Final Quiz Exam – Diet and Nutrition | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 4: Micronutrients I & II | |||
| Micronutrients I | 00:10:00 | ||
| Micronutrients II | 00:20:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 04 | |||
| Module 04 Final Quiz Exam – Diet and Nutrition | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 5: Digestion and Absorption | |||
| Digestion and Absorption | 00:15:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 05 | |||
| Module 05 Final Quiz Exam – Diet and Nutrition | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 6: Detoxification | |||
| Detoxification | 00:25:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 06 | |||
| Module 06 Final Quiz Exam – Diet and Nutrition | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 7: Healthy & Balanced Diet and Food Labelling | |||
| Balanced Diet | 00:10:00 | ||
| Food labelling | 00:10:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 07 | |||
| Module 07 Final Quiz Exam – Diet and Nutrition | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 8: Average Requirements for Energy and Nutrients | |||
| Nutrition Requirements | 00:15:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 08 | |||
| Module 08 Final Quiz Exam – Diet and Nutrition | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 9: Food Intolerances and Allergies | |||
| Food Intolerances and Allergies | 00:15:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 09 | |||
| Module 09 Final Quiz Exam – Diet and Nutrition | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 10: Health Conditions: Heart Disease, Cancer & Diabetes | |||
| Health Conditions: Diabetes | 00:15:00 | ||
| Health Conditions: Heart disease | 00:15:00 | ||
| Health Conditions: Cancer | 00:10:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 10 | |||
| Module 10 Final Quiz Exam – Diet and Nutrition | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 11: Maintaining a Healthy Weight and Eating Problems & Treatments | |||
| Healthy Weight | 00:15:00 | ||
| Eating Problems | 00:15:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 11 | |||
| Module 11 Final Quiz Exam – Diet and Nutrition | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 12: Women’s Health Care & Common Concerns During Pregnancy | |||
| Women’s Health | 00:10:00 | ||
| Common Concerns during Pregnancy | 00:20:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 12 | |||
| Module 12 Final Quiz Exam – Diet and Nutrition | 00:10:00 | ||
| Module 13: Nutrition for the Baby & Special Foods | |||
| Nutrition for the Baby | 00:15:00 | ||
| Some Special Foods | 00:05:00 | ||
| Assessment Module 13 | |||
| Module 13 Final Quiz Exam – Diet and Nutrition | 00:10:00 | ||










