Food as Medicine Online Course by Monash University
This is the scholarship that aims to attract highly capable new international students with demonstrated academic excellence to pursue your study in a College of Humanities and Social Sciences full-time undergraduate or postgraduate program.
Food as Medicine
Food and health are strong connected to one another. Once you know the role of food in health, you can apply nutrition science to guide you on using food as medicine for you and your family.
You will explore how food can be important both in preventative health and as an aid in the management of certain chronic diseases today, in the past and in the future. You will also know more about what’s in food that gives it the potential to improve our health and improve the productivity of your day.
What you will learn:
- History of food as medicine
- Food and its role in prevention and treatment
- Macronutrients, micronutrients, phytochemicals and antioxidants
- Nutrition complexities and controversies, and the importance of evidence
- Food and the gut
- Food and the brain
- Foods, fertility and pregnancy
- Food and weight
- Food and our genome
- Public health nutrition guidelines