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National Academy of Sports Medicine via Coursera Learning path or series

Nutrition Education for the Consumer

Overview

Understanding how to eat healthy can be daunting, especially when presented with unfamiliar science. Learn and apply everyday nutrition concepts to your lifestyle to get the most out of what you eat. Take time in understanding how to appropriately read food labels, enhance your diet and exercise with the right supplements, or break through misconceptions about nutrition fads. With the NASM Nutrition Education for the Consumer, you will learn the truth that evidence leads us to when developing healthy habits built upon accurate nutrition information. Apply these nutrition principles to your own lifestyle or help others around you understand a bit more about how they can begin to build a healthier lifestyle too.

Courses in this learning path or series 5

  1. Plant-Based Diets
  2. Making Sense of Supplements
  3. Understanding Food Labels and Portion Sizes
  4. Nutrition Hot Topics and Controversies
  5. Navigating Diets

Advantages and disadvantages

Advantages

  • Structured courses with graded quizzes, assignments and deadlines you can reset.
  • A shareable certificate from the university or company when you pay.
  • Financial aid is often approved for students in India (apply 15 days before you need it).
  • Self-paced: start any time.
  • A clear syllabus (5 parts) you can see before you start.

Disadvantages

  • Paid after a 7-day free trial (Coursera Plus or per course).
  • Some courses can be audited for free, but graded work and certificates need payment.

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This course is paid. Here is how to take it for free

  • Free trials: You can start a 7-day free trial for many individual courses, Specializations, or a Coursera Plus subscription to test full course features. Cancel before the seventh day if you do not want to be charged.
  • Financial aid: If you cannot afford the fee for a certificate, you can apply for financial aid through the link on the course home page by filling out an application about your background and goals.

National Academy of Sports Medicine is in Tier 4: commercial training companies and platform-made courses of our institution ranking (60/100).

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