Nutrition and Health: Micronutrients and Malnutrition

Key details

About this course
  • MOOC – online course
  • 7 weeks
  • 6-8 hours per week
  • Future dates will be announced

Learn about this course

Introduction

Learn from the top professors of Wageningen University & Research about malnutrition and micronutrients and how they impact your health.

Directly apply what you learn to your own business

De campus met bomen in geel-oranje herfstkleuren

Study at the best agricultural university in the world from the comfort of your own home

Plenty of opportunities to ask questions and to interact with other learners

A woman making notes, while sitting in a field filled with flowers and a shovel in the background

Explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life

Why follow this course?

The course

Food plays a central role in our society but few people actually understand what it does to our bodies. Learn more about nutrition and how our diet profoundly impacts our current and future health. The course will focus on malnutrition and micronutrients. The team of professors from Wageningen University and Research will introduce you to vitamins and minerals and their role in human health.

The course will address the micronutrient content of foods and will cover the role of the various micronutrients in the body. In addition, it will discuss how suboptimal nutrition and micronutrient deficiencies may affect human health and will pay particular attention to global hunger and malnutrition.

Is this course for you?

For who?

While no previous knowledge is needed we recommend you the finish the MOOC Nutrition and Health: Macronutrients and Overnutrition first.

What you will learn

Learning outcomes

You will learn

  • Basic chemistry of vitamins and minerals
  • Food composition
  • The role of vitamins and minerals in the body
  • The impact of malnutrition on public health and the global disease burden
  • Nutritional strategies to improve nutritional status and combat malnutrition
Top-ranked University
According to influential university rankings and citation indexes, Wageningen University & Research ranks world’s best in the field of Agriculture & Forestry.

About the MOOC | Malnutrition is as much a problem as overnutrition

MOOC Nutrition and Health Part 2: Micronutrients and Malnutrition | WUR

Learn about malnutrition and micronutrients and how they impact human health. Professor Sander Kersten invites you to the second part of Wageningen University's Nutrition MOOCs.

Our course leader

Course leader

prof.dr.ir. AH (Sander) Kersten

Professor

prof.dr.ir. AH (Sander) Kersten

Professor

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Organisational unit

Wageningen Academy

Educational type

MOOC

Interest area

Food, Nutrition and Health

Duration description

7 weeks, 6-8 hours per week

Accreditation

Certificate

Format

Online

Course starts immediately

Start immediately

Language of instruction

English