Our online Nutrition Awareness content is designed to provide candidates with an introduction to Nutrition awareness and how best to enable service users to choose and consume food and drink by mouth. The actual support required by the service user will be dependent on their individual needs. Candidates will look at the effect of food on the body and general health, how to make changes to supplement illness and how to identify the key minerals and nutrients required by the body. Candidates will gain an understanding about malnutrition and the implications of malnutrition on the individual.

Learning Outcomes:

• What does nutrition mean?
• Nutrients
• Fruit and Vegetables
• Nutrition and the Elderly
• What are the implications of Malnutrition?
• Factors leading to Malnutrition
• Screening Tools