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Take your career to the next level. Study the exciting field of Nutrition while also focusing on becoming a Nutritional Consultant. You’ll be introduced to the functions of these nutrients, proper dietary intakes, and how they affect your body. Our program will give students the training they need to work with clients of all ages, backgrounds, and fitness levels.
Nutritional Consultant
Although many people understand the importance of healthy nutrition habits and good fitness patterns, it is sometimes hard to accomplish goals on their own. A nutritional consultant can help clients adopt a healthy lifestyle. Our nutritional consultant training provides students with an exploration of how food nutrition contributes to the prevention of illness and the promotion of optimal health. Students will identify how to conduct in-depth diet and lifestyle evaluations and create food plans customized to each individual’s taste, temperament, and health goals. The fundamentals of whole food nutrition, digestive physiology, metabolism, nutritional biochemistry, and current research are presented. Additionally, students will discover how healthy nutrition habits are used in the food industry. Our Nutritional Consultant course will give students the training they need to work with clients of all ages, backgrounds, and fitness levels.
Prerequisite(s): None
Fitness & Nutrition Coaching
Our Fitness and Nutrition Coaching course provides all the information you need to coach others to their optimal health. This comprehensive guide will show you all the aspects of health and wellness and how they can be applied to unique individuals. Health is not just the absence of illness but it’s a feeling of overall well-being. This course takes a personalized approach that guides you through the development of an attainable and enjoyable fitness and wellness program. Learn current, practical information and tips on health and fitness topics, from nutrition and stress management, to flexibility and strength. Each individual is responsible for their own personal health, but first they must be given proper information. As a Fitness & Nutrition Coach you will be able to provide people with information they can use to improve their quality of life. Students will also learn about developing a successful coaching business, marketing your practice, and growing profit.
Prerequisite(s): None
** Course Subject to Change.
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Type quickly and correctly
- Identify the transcription format for civil litigation
- Identify the transcription format for probates
- Identify the transcription format for family law
- Identify the transcription format for legal instruments
Nutritional Consultant
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Define the role of essential nutrients and explain the principles of healthy eating.
- Recall how the body processes and utilizes carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals.
- Identify the relationship between nutrition, energy balance, weight management, and physical fitness.
- Describe how nutritional needs vary across the human life cycle.
- Recognize the impact of food systems, safety, insecurity, and sustainability on nutrition and public health.
Fitness & Nutrition Coaching
After completing this course, you should be able to:
- Recognize the importance of physical activity and nutrition for wellness
- Identify the steps for measuring body mass and assessing physical fitness
- Recall methods for building and maintaining muscular strength and flexibility
- Describe the importance of stress management and behavior modification for overall health
- List the steps for starting your own coaching business
Nutritional Consultant
Nutritional Consultant Module 1
What Is Nutrition?
- What Drives Our Food Choices?
- What Is Nutrition, and Why Is Good Nutrition So Important?
- What Are the Essential Nutrients, and Why Do You Need Them?
- How Should You Get These Important Nutrients?
- How Does the Average American Diet Stack Up?
- What’s the Real Deal When It Comes to Nutrition Research and Advice?
Nutritional Consultant Module 2
Tools for Healthy Eating and The Basics of Digestion
- What Is Healthy Eating, and What Tools Can Help?
- What Are the Dietary Reference Intakes?
- What Are the Scienced-Based Dietary Guidelines for Americans?
- What Are MyPlate and MyPlate.gov?
- What Is Digestion, and Why Is It Important?
- What Are the Organs of the GI Tract, and Why Are They Important?
- How Do Hormones, Enzymes, and Bile Aid Digestion?
- How Are Digested Nutrients Absorbed?
Nutritional Consultant Module 3
Carbohydrates, Fats, Oils, and Other Liquids
- What Are Carbohydrates, and Why Do You Need Them?
- What Happens to the Carbohydrates You Eat?
- How Does Your Body Use Carbohydrates?
- How Much Carbohydrate Do You Need, and What Are the Best Food Sources?
- What Are Fats, and Why Do You Need Them?
- What Happens to the Fat You Eat?
- How Does Your Body Use Fat and Cholesterol?
- How Much Fat Do You Need Each Day?
Nutritional Consultant Module 4
Proteins, Amino Acids, and Vitamins
- What Are Proteins, and Why Are They Important?
- What Happens to the Protein You Eat?
- How Does Your Body Use Proteins?
- How Much Protein Do You Need?
- What Are Vitamins?
- The Storage of Fat-Soluble Vitamins
- Exploring Vitamin A, E, K, and D
- The Roles of the Water-Soluble B Vitamins and Vitamin C
Nutritional Consultant Module 5
Minerals, Water, and Alcohol
- Why Is Water So Important?
- What Is Water Balance, and How Do You Maintain It?
- How Much Water Do You Need, and What Are the Best Sources?
- What Are Minerals, and Why Do You Need Them?
- What Is Alcohol, and How Is It Made?
- Why Do People Drink Alcohol?
- What Happens to Alcohol in the Body?
- How Can Alcohol Be Harmful?
Nutritional Consultant Module 6
Weight Management, Energy Balance, Nutrition, and Fitness
- What Is a Healthy Weight, and Why Is Maintaining It Important?
- How Do You Know If You’re at a Healthy Weight?
- What Is Energy Balance, and What Determines Energy Needs?
- What Factors Are Likely to Affect Body Weight?
- What Is Physical Fitness, and Why Is It Important?
- What Does a Physical Fitness Program Look Like?
- How Are Carbohydrate, Fat, and Protein Used during Exercise?
- How Does the Timing of Meals Affect Fitness and Athletic Performance?
Nutritional Consultant Module 7
Consumerism, Sustainability, Food Safety, and Technology
- How Do Advertising and Marketing Influence Your Food Choices?
- Where Does Your Food Come From?
- What Is a Sustainable Food System?
- How Do We Balance the World Population’s Need for Food with Sustainability?
- What Causes Foodborne Illness?
- What Can You Do to Prevent Foodborne Illness?
- Who Protects Your Food, and How Do They Do It?
- What Are Food Additives, and How Are They Used?
Nutritional Consultant Module 8
Life Cycle Nutrition
- What Nutrients and Behaviors Are Important for People of Childbearing Age?
- What Nutrients and Behaviors Are Important in the First Trimester?
- What Nutrients and Behaviors Are Important in the Second Trimester?
- What Nutrients and Behaviors Are Important in the Third Trimester?
- What Are the Issues Associated with Feeding Young Children?
- What Are the Nutritional Needs and Issues of School-Aged Children?
- What Are the Nutritional Needs and Issues of Adolescents?
- What Are the Nutritional Needs of Older Adults?
Nutritional Consultant Module 9
Hunger at Home and Abroad
- What Is Food Insecurity, and How Many People Does It Affect?
- What Are the Effects of Chronic Undernutrition?
- Who Is at Increased Risk for Undernutrition?
- What Causes Food Insecurity in the United States?
- What Causes Food Insecurity and Poverty around the Globe?
- What Can Be Done to Reduce Food Insecurity?
**Outlines are subject to change, as courses and materials are updated.**
Fitness & Nutrition Coaching
Fitness and Nutrition Coaching Module 1
Physical Fitness and Wellness
- Life Expectancy
- Lifestyle
- Physical Activity
- Types of Physical Fitness
- Guidelines for Physical Fitness
- Wellness Education
- Living in a Toxic Environment
- Personal Values and Behavior
- Planning and Willpower
- Self-Efficacy
- Behavior Change Theories
Fitness and Nutrition Coaching Module 2
Nutrition and Weight Management
- Nutrients
- A Healthy Balanced Diet
- Nutrient Supplementation
- Benefits of Food
- Iron Deficiency
- Body Composition
- Body Shape and Health Risk
- Weight Management in the Modern Environment
- Physiology of Weight Loss
- Types of Exercise
Fitness and Nutrition Coaching Module 3
Endurance and Muscular Fitness
- Basic Cardiorespiratory Physiology
- Aerobic and Anaerobic Exercise
- Assessing Cardiorespiratory Endurance
- Benefits of Strength Training
- Gender Differences
- Factors that Affect Muscular Fitness
- Strength-Training Exercise
- Exercise Safety Guidelines
Fitness and Nutrition Coaching Module 4
Muscular Flexibility and Fitness Programming
- Benefits of Good Flexibility
- Assessing Flexibility
- Flexibility Exercises
- Preventing and Rehabilitating Low Back Pain
- Exercise Prescription
- Skill-Related Fitness
- General Exercise Considerations
- Nutrition and Hydration
- Women’s Health and Exercise
- Exercise and Aging
Fitness and Nutrition Coaching Module 5
Stress Assessment and Cardiovascular Disease
- How the Body Adapts to Stress
- How Perception and Attitude Affect Health
- Sleep and Time Management
- How the Body Responds to Stress
- Forms of Cardiovascular Disease
- Stroke
- Coronary Heart Disease
- Cardiovascular Risk Reduction
Fitness and Nutrition Coaching Module 6
Cancer and Addiction
- How Cancer Starts
- Genetic vs. Environmental Risk
- Dietary Changes
- Early Detection
- How Addiction Develops
- Drugs and Dependence
- Alcohol
- Tobacco
- Why People Smoke
Fitness and Nutrition Coaching Module 7
Lifetime Fitness and Wellness
- Types and Causes of Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Four Most Common Bacterial STIs
- Four Most Common Viral STIs
- Preventing Sexually Transmitted Infections
- Life Expectancy and Physiological Age
- Conventional Western Medicine
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- Integrative Medicine
- Self-Evaluation and Behavioral Goals
Fitness and Nutrition Coaching Module 8
Start Your Coaching Business
- Consulting vs. Coaching
- Setting Up Your Business
- Choosing a Target Market
- Setting Up Your Office
- Finding Those First Clients
- Deciding How Much to Charge
- Creating Coaching Packages
- Keeping Those First Clients
- Sales and Marketing Systems
- Making a Profit
- Publicizing Your Business
- Hiring an Office Manager
**Outlines are subject to change, as courses are always under improvement for your benefit**
Ed4Online is committed to being both environmentally conscious and making it easier for you to study! We’re making your education mobile! All of our textbooks are now provided as eTextbooks*. You can access them on your laptop, tablet, or mobile device and can study anytime, anywhere.
The move away from physical books to eTextbooks means you get the latest, most up-to-date version available. This also makes your training more accessible, so you can study anywhere you have your phone or tablet. The best part is that all materials are included in your training cost so there are NO extra fees for books!**
*A few courses still have physical materials.
Nutritional Consultant
Upon successful completion of our Nutritional Consultant course, students will be prepared for an entry-level position as a nutritional coach and will be prepared to sit for the NCCB national certification exam to become a Certified Nutritional Coach (CNC).
Fitness & Nutrition Coaching
Upon successful completion of our Fitness and Nutrition Coaching course, students will be prepared to sit for the NCCB national certification exam to become a Certified Health and Fitness Coach (CHFC).** Certification exams are not included in the cost of the course.**
Internet Connection
- Broadband or High-Speed - DSL, Cable, and Wireless Connections
*Dial-Up internet connections will result in a diminished online experience. Classroom pages may load slowly and viewing large audio and video files may not be possible.
Hardware Requirements
- Processor - 2GHz Processor or Higher
- Memory - 1 GB RAM Minimum Recommended
PC Software Requirements
- Operating Systems - Windows 7 or higher
- Microsoft Office 2013 or higher. Also, you could use a general Word Processing application to save and open Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx)
- Internet Browsers - Google Chrome is highly recommended
- Cookies MUST be enabled
- Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled)
- The Kindle Reader App or VitalSource Bookshelf App are needed for many of our courses (No special equipment needed. This can be downloaded for FREE onto your computer.)
- PowerPoint Viewer (if you do not have PowerPoint)
- Adobe PDF Reader
- QuickTime, Windows Media Player &/or Real Player
MAC Software Requirements
- Operating Systems - Mac OS x 10 or higher with Windows
- Mac office programs or a Word Processing application to save and open Microsoft Office formats (.doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx)
- Internet Browsers- Google Chrome is highly recommended
- Cookies MUST be enabled
- Pop-ups MUST be allowed (Pop-up Blocker disabled)
- The Kindle Reader App or VitalSource Bookshelf App are needed for many of our courses (No special equipment needed. This can be downloaded for FREE onto your computer.)
- PowerPoint Viewer (if you do not have PowerPoint)
- Adobe PDF Reader
- Apple QuickTime Media Player