Therapeutic Nutrition

STUDY THERAPEUTIC NUTRITION ONLINE

Learn to manage the diet of people with a medical condition.

Illness and Recovery can often be managed by planning a better diet. This course shows you how different foods relate to different illnesses.

The practice of therapeutic nutrition involves the provision of nutrients to maintain and/ or restore optimal nutrition and health.

Therapeutic diets may be required as therapy for a disease e.g. coeliac disease or to treat malnutrition arising from low energy and nutrient intakes or due to increased energy and nutrient needs.

A therapeutic diet may be provided orally (through eating/ drinking), enterally (through a tube directly into the gastrointestinal tract or parenterally through the veins of the circulatory system.

Lesson Structure

There are 8 lessons in this course:

1. Introduction to Therapeutic Nutrition
2. Allergies and Intolerances
3. Diabetes
4. Heart Disease, Hyperlipidemia and Artheriolsclerosis
5. Renal/Kidney Conditions
6. Cancer
   • Digestive Disorders - Oesophagus, Small Intestine, Colon,
7. Other Metabolic Conditions (eg. Liver, Gall bladder, Pancreas,etc)
8. Strategic Diet planning for a medical condition

Each lesson culminates in an assignment which is submitted to the school, marked by the school's tutors and returned to you with any relevant suggestions, comments, and if necessary, extra reading.

Aims

• Discuss the nature and scope of Therapeutic Nutrition; and identify circumstances where diet may need modification
• Explain different types of food allergy and intolerance and provide information on diagnosis, clinical symptoms and appropriate dietary modifications.
• Explain what diabetes is and describe appropriate dietary adjustments that for people with Diabetes.
• Explain appropriate dietary adjustments that should be made for people with Cardiovascular Disease
• Explain appropriate dietary adjustments that should be made for people with Heart Disease, Hyperlipidemia or Artheriolsclerosis
• Explain appropriate dietary adjustments that should be made for people with Kidney conditions
• Explain appropriate dietary adjustments that should be made for people with different types of cancer
• Explain appropriate dietary adjustments that should be made for people with a variety of digestive disorders
• Explain appropriate dietary adjustments that should be made for people with diseases of the liver, gall bladder and pancreas
• To evaluate the dietary requirements of a client or patient, who has a medical condition; giving appropriate consideration to that condition; and to identify responsible options for diet planning in response to the situation.