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By the end of the course, you'll be able to...
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Describe what is meant by the term ‘food as medicine’ and list a number of examples of how foods have been used as medicine in the past.
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Identify how and which types of foods are essential for health and wellbeing, and play an important role in treating/preventing disease.
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Identify current evidenced based, nutrition related public health guidelines and apply these to improve personal eating habits and nutritional intake.
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Identify foods/components of food that have an effect on different body systems, weight and appetite, fertility and pregnancy, and the genome.