MOOC Nutrition and Health: Micronutrients and Malnutrition

Why follow this course?

Food plays a central role in our society but few people actually understand what it does to our bodies. Learn more about nutrition and how our diet profoundly impacts our current and future health. The course will focus on undernutrition and micronutrients. The team of professors from Wageningen University and Research will introduce you to vitamins and minerals and their role in human health.

The course will address the micronutrient content of foods and will cover the role of the various micronutrients in the body. In addition, it will discuss how suboptimal nutrition and micronutrient deficiences may affect human health and will pay particular attention to global hunger and malnutrition.

Is this course for you?

While no previous knowledge is needed we recommend you the finish te MOOC Nutrition and Health: Macronutrients and Overnutrition first.

What you will learn

• Basic chemistry of vitamins and minerals
• Food composition
• The role of vitamins and minerals in the body
• The impact of malnutrition on public health and the global disease burden
• Nutritional strategies to improve nutritional status and combat malnutrition

Professional Certificate Programme Nutrition and Health

This MOOC is, together with the MOOC Nutrition and Health: Macronutrients and Overnutrition, part of the Professional Certificate Programme: Nutrition and Health which learns you more about food, nutrition and how your diet impacts your health.