Healthy Nutrition for Life
With obesity and lifestyle related chronic diseases on the rise, coaching to create healthy eating behaviours and food choices is a key area of change. This course provides you with a broad understanding of the function of food and introduces foundational level nutrition information and guidelines that you may need to assist clients in reaching their overall health and wellness goals.
Healthy Nutrition for Life
Study Method
Self Guided, online program
Start Date
Enrol and start anytime
Student Suitability
No pre-requisites
Course Fee
$450
When supporting people to improve their health and wellness, nutrition and food choices are often key areas of change that arise.
With obesity and lifestyle related chronic diseases on the rise, coaching to create healthy eating behaviours can alleviate and prevent the onset of chronic health conditions.
Healthy Nutrition for Life provides you (as a coach) with a broad understanding of the function of food and introduces foundational level nutrition information and guidelines that you may need to assist clients in reaching their overall health and wellness goals.
Having a broad food and nutrition literacy base is incredibly important. Although prescribing nutrition choices and creating plans is outside your scope of practice, you do need a robust knowledge to be able to work safely with your client and identify any unsafe nutritional goals they may set.
As a Health and Wellness Coach you will be asked to support your clients in choosing changes to their nutritional habits and at times they will need guidance around the suitability and safety of some of their choices. Again, you will together discover the depth of their knowledge and at times provide information after asking for permission and drawing only on published guidelines.
Who this course is for:
- Graduate Coaches or coaches-in-training who want to work with clients around nutrition, making positive food choices and adopting healthy eating habits.
- Anyone who is looking for f oundation level nutrition knowledge needed to lead a healthier lifestyle.
Ideal course for qualified coaches who require gap training for lifestyle related studies in order to meet criteria to become a full member with the Health Coaches Australia and New Zealand Association (HCANZA).
This course will enable you to:
- Clarify and define the role of a health and wellness coach when working with a client around food choices as determined by the scope of practice of a health and wellness coach
- Recognise when a referral to an allied health professional is appropriate
- Identify the function and sources of macro and micro - nutrients within food types, to enable you to help clients understand the importance of balancing the major nutrients
- Examine the effects of dietary intake on health and various diets to meet physical and nutritional goals
- The relationship between diet and chronic disease, including examining common myths and fallacies concerning diet
- Distinguish between sound and unreliable nutritional information to arm you with the right resources to use with your clients
Industry Body Accreditation - Continuing Education Credits/hours
20 CEC’s
Self-assessment
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Frequently Asked Questions
You will receive immediate access to the online learning portal, simply check your email with details on how to get started and receive your login details.
Yes hard copies of the course text are available for an additional fee of $xx including shipping within Australia. You can order a copy by clicking here<insert link to the shop product>
You have 8 weeks from time of enrolling to have completed all the course sections including the online quiz for each section
Certificates are issued direct to you on email within5 business days of passing all online quiz sections in your learning portal.
Yes. You have access to our student knowledge base to search any prior support questions that students have asked or you can directly contact our support team with your questions and they will provide direct guidance back to you within 1 business day.