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Nutrients & Recommended Intakes

Learn about the role of nutrients for health and sports performance and the latest public health nutrition guidelines. Explore different dietary intake evaluation methods and strategies for improving data accuracy through real-world case-based scenarios.

£395 + VAT

Purchase Short Course

20 hours of learning

Watch 4 presentations featuring guest experts

Apply your learnings into practice in 3 case-based scenarios

For current and aspiring sport and exercise nutritionists

What you'll learn

Nutrients and non-nutrients to inform requirements and their role, function, and composition in the human body.

Critically appraise retrospective and prospective methods of collecting dietary intake data in the exercising individual.

Experience implementing a 3-day weighed food record and critically reflect on the process.

Develop practical instructions that help athletes accurately record their dietary intake in the field.

Develop essential skills to apply in practice

Critically appraise the dietary intake of a young female soccer player and provide suggestions for improving the validity of their reported intake in the future.
Advise a professional male soccer player on how to keep a reliable, accurate food record and critically appraise the athlete’s logged data in accordance with other components of a nutritional assessment.
Create a series of practical instructions for a female competitive triathlete that will allow them to record their dietary intake over 4-days using the weighed food record method.

Alex Ritson MSc

Lead tutor

The Head of Department for Online Learning at the IOPN and responsible for the management, design, and content development of the IOPN’s educational programmes.

Professor Graeme Close

Liverpool John Moores University

Expert guest tutor

Professor of Human Physiology at Liverpool John Moores University where he combines his academic research with nutrition and physiology consultancy to some of the world’s leading sporting organisations, including England Rugby Union and DP World Tour Golf.

Latest research: “Food First but Not Always Food Only”: Recommendations for Using Dietary Supplements in Sport by Close et al. (2022)

Professor Norman Temple

Expert guest tutor

Athabasca University, Canada and UK

Dr Charlie Roberts

Expert guest tutor

£395 + VAT

Nutrients and Recommended Intakes

Upgrade your knowledge in sports nutrition and learn the practical skills you need to work with private clients, athletes and teams, through our advanced Short Course.

	1.0 Oral presentation: An introduction to nutrients and recommended intakes [±30 mins] (compulsory)
	1.1 Class-wide discussion forum: Public health nutrition: What needs to change? [±30 mins] (optional [5 pts])
	1.2 Reflective journal: Nutrition and public health: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts [±60 mins] (compulsory [20pts])
	1.3 Oral presentation: A paradigm shift in nutritional science: food synergy rather than nutrients [±60 mins] (compulsory)
	1.4 Reading assignment: Nutrients and Recommended Intakes [±120 mins] (compulsory)
	1.5 Quiz assignment: Nutrients and Recommended Intakes [≤90 mins] (compulsory [50pts])

	1.6 Oral presentation: Assessing Energy Intake and Expenditure in Athletes by Professor Graeme [±65 mins] (compulsory)
	1.7 Quiz assignment: Assessing Energy Intake and Expenditure in Athletes [±30 mins] (compulsory [10pts])
	1.8 Oral presentation: Performing a dietary assessment of athletes [±75 mins] (compulsory)
	1.9 Quiz assignment: Performing a dietary assessment of athletes [±30 mins] (compulsory [10pts])
	1.10 Reading assignment: Assessment of Nutrient Status in Athletes and the Need for Supplementation [±90 mins] (compulsory)
	1.11 Class-wide discussion forum: Choosing a dietary recording method in practice: One-size-doesn’t-fit-all [±60 mins] (compulsory [10pts])

	1.12 Applied assignment: A look at the ‘gold standards’ of dietary assessment and energy expenditure: Complete a 3-day weighed food record [±60 mins] (compulsory [10pts])
	1.13 Case-based scenario: Appraising the dietary intake of a young female athlete [±60 mins] (compulsory [40pts]) (Created by Dr Charlie Roberts)
	1.14 Case-based scenario: Divorced and out of favour: A case of a diet record assessment [±90 mins] (compulsory [40pts]) (Created by the IOPN)
	1.15 Class-wide discussion forum: Nutritionism in sport and exercise nutrition? [±30 mins] (optional [5pts])
	1.16 Case study portfolio component: Weigh, eat, perform: Create a 4-day weighed food diary guide for an athlete [±120 mins] (compulsory [50pts]) (Created by the IOPN)
	1.17 Reflective journal: How will you deliver your nutritional assessment to future clients? [±30 mins] (compulsory [20pts])

Institute of Performance Nutrition

Education

SENPRO

We Do Science Podcast

Nutrients & Recommended Intakes

£395 + VAT

What you'll learn

Develop essential skills to apply in practice

Alex Ritson MSc

Lead tutor

Professor Graeme Close

Liverpool John Moores University

Expert guest tutor

Professor Norman Temple

Expert guest tutor

Dr Charlie Roberts

Expert guest tutor

£395 + VAT

Nutrients and Recommended Intakes

Short Course Syllabus

Part 1: Relevant theory [±7 hours]

Part 2: Expert translation [±6 hours]

Part 3: Competent application [±7 hours]