Nutrition and Healthy Eating

About this course.

What we eat shapes how we feel, how well we work, and our long-term health. A balanced diet supports growth and repair, gives us the energy to get through the day, protects against many of the most common long-term conditions — including obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke and some cancers — and supports good mental wellbeing. Yet healthy eating is surrounded by confusing and contradictory messages: fad diets, miracle foods, ever-changing trends and marketing claims can make it hard to know what genuinely matters. This course cuts through the noise using trusted UK public-health guidance, built around the NHS Eatwell Guide and the recommendations of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition (SACN), so that you can understand the principles of eating well and apply them in everyday life.

It explains the basics of nutrition — the macronutrients, micronutrients, fibre and water the body needs — before showing how the Eatwell Guide turns that science into simple, practical proportions of food groups. It then moves into healthy eating in practice: reducing free sugars, salt and saturated fat, staying hydrated, judging portion sizes, reading food labels and the traffic-light system, and planning balanced meals, along with eating well across different life stages, plant-based eating, allergies and intolerances at an awareness level, and dispelling diet myths. This is an awareness-level course; it is not individualised medical, clinical or dietary advice, and anyone with a specific health condition, diagnosed allergy or particular dietary needs should seek advice from a qualified healthcare professional or registered dietitian. The course concludes with a 20-question multiple-choice assessment, which you must pass at 80% to earn your CPD certificate.