Diet and Nutrition - Online Courses - Adult Learning

Online Courses, Nottingham

Date	3 November - 8 December 2025
Sessions	Mondays: 9:30am - 11:30am
No. sessions	6
Venue	Online Courses, Nottingham View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 15
Cost	FREE - £48

About this course

The Introduction to Diet and Nutrition course simplifies the fundamentals of health and nutrition in what often feels like a confusing and contradictory world. It was designed to help you develop a holistic relationship between food and health, shifting from a mindset of dieting and rigid regimes.

Explore the aspects of a healthy diet and fluid intake and how we they impact upon our health.

The long-term and short-term impact of eating disorders.
The makings of a healthy diet
What are the principal constituents of food?
Which components of your diet can promote wellbeing and reduce the risk of diseases?
Why do we eat what we eat?
What are the drivers that influence our food choices?
How do we make sense of available nutrition information? What are the different types of eating disorders?
What are UPFs and are they all bad for you?
Nutrition fads, myths and the plain truth
Is there such a thing as a ‘miracle’ diet?
Do superfoods exist, or are our genes to blame for our current nutritional habits?

By the end of the course, you will:

Explore the influences of food choice and eating behaviours.
Describe components of a healthy diet.
Discuss current nutrition controversies.
Identify principles of healthy eating.

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
West of England
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014