About this course: Nutrition and Lifestyle in Pregnancy offers an overview of the latest research findings and international recommendations on a variety of nutrition-related aspects and outcomes of pregnancy. Ensuring a healthy nutritional status and lifestyle prior to and during pregnancy is one of the best ways to help support the healthy growth and development of the unborn child. We will look at how a healthy diet and lifestyle should ideally be achieved prior to conception and provide recommendations for pre-conception counselling of women. We will also look at the nutritient recommendations for a healthy pregnancy to ensure optimal maternal and fetal outcomes as well as focus on the most common nutrition-related pregnancy complications; obesity and gestational diabetes. The learner will have the opportunity to delve into the cutting-edge world of epigenetic and metabolomic research and appreciate the enormous role that these programming effects have in long-term health and disease outcomes. Finally, we offer real life, everyday situations and questions from pregnant women to aid healthcare professionals in the nutrition-based counselling of pregnant women and their families. In addition to the English original, subtitles in Portugese language are available now!
Who is this class for: The foundation of this course is based strongly on current scientific findings and leading international recommendations. The primary target audience is healthcare professionals (gynecologists, obstetricians, paediatricians, nutritionists, dieticians as well as nurses and midwives) and medical students. Despite the emphasis on current research this course may also be suitable for pregnant women and their families, or those wishing to become pregnant.
Taught by: Berthold Koletzko, Professor of Pediatrics
LMU Medical Center Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital
| Level | Intermediate |
| Language | English, Subtitles: Portuguese (Brazilian) |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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- Video: Course Introduction: Nutrition and Lifestyle in Pregnancy
- Video: Introduction: A Healthy Pregnancy Starts Before Conception
- Reading: Reference List and Further Qualification
- Video: Body Weight: Preparing For Pregnancy
- Reading: Reference List and Further Qualification
- Video: Folic Acid: Preparing for Pregnancy
- Reading: Reference List and Further Qualification
- Video: Introduction: Nutrition and Lifestyle for a Healthy Pregnancy
- Video: Physiological Adaptations of Pregnancy
- Reading: Reference List and Further Qualification
- Video: Metabolic Adaptations of Pregnancy
- Reading: Reference List and Further Qualification
- Video: Nutrition in Pregnancy: Macronutrients
- Reading: Reference List and Further Qualification
- Video: Nutrition in Pregnancy: Micronutrients
- Reading: Reference List and Further Qualification
- Video: Expert Statement Prof Przyrembel: Regulation of Food Supplements
- Video: Nutritional Restrictions During Pregnancy
- Video: Avoidance of Food-Bourne Illnesses
- Video: Introduction: Nutrition-Related Pregnancy Outcomes
- Reading: Reference List and Further Qualification
- Video: Obesity: Management During Pregnancy
- Reading: Reference List and Further Qualification
- Video: Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Management During Pregnancy
- Reading: Reference List and Further Qualification
- Video: Early Nutritional Programming: Is Epigenetics the Key?
- Reading: Reference List and Further Qualification
- Video: The Biochemistry of Your Body From a Drop of Blood
- Reading: Reference List and Further Qualification
- Video: Introduction: Practical Advice for a Healthy Pregnancy
- Video: Why Pregnant Women Should be Eating Fish
- Reading: Reference List and Further Qualification
- Video: Physical Activity Tips for a Healthy Pregnancy
- Reading: Reference List and Further Qualification
- Video: Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy
- Reading: Reference List and Further Qualification
- Video: Planning for Infant Feeding
- Video: Nutrition in Pregnancy: Fact or Fiction?
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Great course! My only notice is that fats were not advised, mistakenly by my opinion. Saturated fats, mono and some polyunsaturated are necessary in specific amounts to induce better hormonal health. I'm a nuritionist and I believe that low fat is not the answer. I don't think high carb diet of 50%+ is always the best for humans, and I do believe that pregnant women are no different. But I understood the cycle, and it makes sense that when people usually had sex was usually spring, which means that the first and second trimester should be full of sugary fruits for the mothers. The third trimester (Oct-Nov-Dec) would be the time where fat mobilization would come in play, naturally from the absence of fruits and much food in general. ALthough it seems harsh to be born at that time (cold, etc) it just makes sense if you sense the natural rythm if life (sex drive in spring, fruits in spring, summer and autumn.
What a brilliant course. I have learnt a great deal. Well reseached, indepth and practical. i will be using this information in my nutrional practice. It was also very helpful to me as a pregnant mother. It consolidated a lot of infomation i have acquired during the years but more importantly the science behind it gave me a renewed confidence in what I have been doing. A big thank you to the founders of this course. i will be revisiting it on the Enea web site to get everything to stick. it was a great deal of information and with the extra reading ressources included it took me at least three hours a week over a week to get a good grasp of the infomation. I feel well placed to advise myself and help in providing pre natal nutritonal and lifestyle advise to others. i can't say thank you enough!!!
Excelente!
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EI
great course, very interesting topic.