Nutrition for Health (Level 3) – RSPH Award

A three-day workshop

The qualifications objective is to provide learners with the knowledge and understanding of a healthy balanced diet and how this can be applied to adjust diets/menus to align them with healthy eating guidelines, as well as how to deliver healthy eating messages, either through changes to food choices / diets / menus or through broader health campaigns.

Outline

Outline

How to plan and promote healthier food choices

  • Key factors to consider when communicating healthy eating messages
  • Adapting healthy eating messages for certain populations
  • How to deliver reliable nutrition information

Internal and external factors that drive food choices

  • ‘Triggers’ and how they may affect personal food choices
  • Internal / external triggers and the impact they may have on food choices
  • Using triggers to improve food choices

Identifying improvements within a specific diet or menu

  • Using a food diary to suggest healthier alternatives
  • Areas within the average diet where alternatives could be suggested
  • Factors influencing acceptable alternatives in food choices

How to address specific health conditions by changing a diet or menu

  • Specific health conditions and the role nutrition plays
  • How to adapt diets or meal plans for specific health conditions
  • Possible impact of cooking methods on health

Audience

Who should attend?

This qualification is suitable for people working in the catering, hospitality, leisure or care sectors and others who are in a position to promote healthy eating. It is also relevant to health and teaching professionals who might have a role in the promotion of healthy eating or the preparation of meals, menus and diets.

Format

Format

A three-day programme, for up to 12 people, with a short multiple-choice test, the successful completion of which qualifies participants for the RSPH Level 3 Award, Nutrition for Health.

Meet the trainer

Expert trainer

Frances is a highly qualified (MA, BSc, FRSPH, Chartered Fellow CIPD, MCIEH, Post Grad Law Cert) independent consultant and trainer in the health and safety field with a postgraduate certificate in law. Formerly a training manager in a large London hospital, and with a background before that in catering management, Frances is also a registered CIEH and RSPH trainer, a qualified Food Inspector and Mentor and Affiliate of the Institute of Fire Engineers. She also has experience as a senior lecturer at a London college.

She has extensive practical management experience and is a very popular trainer generally but particularly in the hospitality and commercial sectors as well as with local and central government departments. With over 20 years’ training experience in a diverse cross-section of organisations and holding various management and consultancy roles in global industries, Frances has a wide range of experience to draw upon.

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