Free Nutrition Classes Available Online
Ever wish you had taken a health or nutrition class in college instead of learning the physics of beer pong? Now is your chance. Johns Hopkins is offering five full courses on nutritional topics available for free online. The classes include:
Critical Analysis of Popular Diets and Dietary Supplements - Provides the knowledge one needs to critically appraise a weight control diet or dietary supplement and choose the best plan for success.
Food and Nutrition Policy - Familiarizes and engages the student with the process of developing policies.
International Nutrition - Presents major nutritional problems that influence the health, survival and developmental capacity of populations in developing societies.
Nutritional Health, Food Production and the Environment - Provides an understanding of the complex and challenging public health issue of food security and in a world where one billion people are under-nourished while another billion are overweight.
Principles of Human Nutrition - Provides an integrated overview of the physiological requirements and functions of protein, energy and the major vitamins and minerals that are determinants of health and diseases in human populations.
Each class includes a syllabus, selected readings and lecture notes. Most of the content is in the lecture notes, but the reading can be quite interesting. It is not for credit, but is a good way to get a quick peak into many issues surrounding nutrition whether you are contemplating returning to school or just like to keep up to date. Best of all, you can do it all in your pajamas and no one would be the wiser.
This course although I have not taken it yet, appears to be an excellent and informative course.