Nutrition and Health: Micronutrients and Malnutrition

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7 weeks, 6-8 hours a week
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On-Demand
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Overview

There is an overload of information about nutrition and health, but what is the truth and what can you do to improve the health of your patients? Learn more about nutrition and how our diet profoundly impacts our current and future health. This course addresses the relationship between nutrition and human health, with a focus on health problems related to malnutrition.

In this course, Professor Sander Kersten from Wageningen University & Research will explain about the micronutrient (vitamins, minerals, and trace elements) content of foods. You will learn about their role in the body and their impact on our health. Moreover, this course will discuss how suboptimal nutrition may affect human health, with particular attention to malnutrition and global hunger. You will learn about strategies to improve and combat these problems of malnutrition. Finally, the course will make you familiar with nutritional research and research methodologies.

For whom?

This MOOC is especially useful for health care professionals and people working in the food industry with a non-nutrition background. You will develop a critical mind set by learning to better weigh and interpret information about food, nutrition and health. to improve overall health

This course, is part of the Food, Nutrition and Health Professional Certificate Program of Wageningen University & Research. Did you already complete Nutrition and Health: Macronutrients and Overnutrition? That is the first course in the Food, Nutrition and Health Professional Certificate Program. To explore other learning opportunities about nutrition, have a look at the courses

Food Risks
Human Microbiome
Nutrition and Cancer
Nutrition, Heart Disease and Diabetes

Syllabus

Module 1: Basic Principles of micronutrients
Start the course by learning about the general principles that apply to vitamins
and minerals.

Module 2: Water, minerals, trace elements
In this module you will look at the health effects of water, and will cover the various
dietary minerals.

Module 3: Fat soluble vitamins and health
Learn about the fat soluble vitamins: vitamin A, vitamin D and vitamin E.

Module 4: Water soluble vitamins and health
For this module, you'll shift your focus to a few of the water soluble vitamins: vitamin C, folate and vitamin B12.

Module 5: The global burden of micronutrient malnutrition
Discuss the prevalence and trends of micronutrient deficiencies
and their geographical distribution. We will also talk about the double burden of
malnutrition.

Module 6: Global solutions to micronutrient deficiencies
This module will outline the available strategies to alleviate micronutrient
malnutrition.

Module 7: Insight in the future of Nutritional Science (verified learners only)
In this module you will get to see some of the exciting research that is currently being
done in the field of Nutritional Science.

Taught by

Sander Kersten

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Mohammad Damoun Dahir @damoun
2

I found this course quite interesting, engaging and informative. It made me learn lots of things under the umbrella of micronutrients along with answers to many questions I earlier had to understand the cause of global burden of micronutrients and work done in this field for its solution and overcome the deficiencies.

I would highly recommend this course for those who are interested or looking for building their career in subject like these.
Sabrina Hogan
8

I love the Nutr101x and nutr102x MOOC from Wageningen university via EdX . Good info covered and lots of videos so you can visually see the info.
Anonymous

I enjoyed studying this course. I think the content is well selected and very good delivered. The only thing which would work better for me is the testing part - i would like to have it more demanding. To add more questions or so. And may be do it time related, so to give let's say 30 min to complete the test. For the rest all good, i will definitely continue studying with Wageningen courses. Thank you, Ekaterina
Anonymous

Great job! I found the course very informative. It's also very well structured. I personally hold a degree in Linguistics and Management and I'm passionate about Nutrition Science. I was really concerned if I should take the courses on Macro and Mi…

Great job!
I found the course very informative. It's also very well structured. I personally hold a degree in Linguistics and Management and I'm passionate about Nutrition Science. I was really concerned if I should take the courses on Macro and Micronutrients as I believed it would be very difficult to grasp completely new and difficult topics. And although some topics are quite challenging, overall the team did an excellent job of providing the information so that it's understandable and easy to remember. What I also appreciate is the quality and quantity of references for additional reading. Last but not least, the course's objective is worth mentioning: to empower the audience to think critically about Nutrition and related topics. I believe this goal is well achieved. For the above reasons, I highly recommend this course.
Thanks a lot!
Anonymous

Moc interessante e ben fatto , con docenti di alto livello. Il corso offre una panoramica sulle basi della nutrizione, i micronutrienti e l'integrazione alimentare, ottimo se si vuole partire dalle basi
Agustiah Agustiah @agustiah
13

Very informative course.
This course improved my knowledge and skill to choose better food for myself and people around me
Anonymous

I really enjoyed this interactive learning and this particular program was great. The videos were clear and precise. The reading portions were just right, not too long and not too short.
Anonymous

Could be a bit more organised and downloadable material. Videos are a bit old and sometimes quality is poor.
Anonymous

I thoroughly enjoyed the course on Micronutrients and Malnutrition especially all the interviews presented by professionals in the field of Nutrition. I liked listening to the the experiences from different Professors who spent years out in the field doing research studies of Micronutrients in countries like Ghana, Guatemala and Bangladesh. This course opened my eyes to the challenge of preventing malnutrition on a global scale. I highly recommend this course to anyone who is interested in helping others to improve their health and how to better interpret information released on social media sites about health, nutrition and types of food.
Anonymous

Course is exciting for mi.I learn much more from this course.By this course my knowledge is increased about Nutrition and Health.I am happy to going through this course.
Anonymous

I was very pleased with the Nutrition & Health Professional Certificate program. It was much more in-depth than I was expecting and I feel I have learned a tremendous amount about the subject matter.
Pete
Anonymous

Absolutely fantastic course, contains such important information that everyone should know about, to help keep themselves and others they live with healthy. I will be recommending it to everyone I know.
Anonymous

The course is very detailed, and I enjoyed learning it immensely. There are practice questions at the end of every section to gauge your understanding. There are also many activities to implement the learned knowledge in real life.
The content of this course should be studied by everyone, as it not only improves understanding of human bodily functions, but also the needs of our body. It dives into great detail about why specifically we need each nutrient and sometimes even the metabolism of it in our body.
Anonymous

If you are interested in nutrition I 100% recommend taking this course ! I have learned so much about food , which don't we all love ? But food is so much more than we ever thought, it's more than calories and carbs but about macro and micronutrient…

If you are interested in nutrition I 100% recommend taking this course ! I have learned so much about food , which don't we all love ? But food is so much more than we ever thought, it's more than calories and carbs but about macro and micronutrients that gives us a healthier and better life. Through this course you'll also grow a heart for places you've never been and people you've never met. Food is medicine and if more people learned about nutrition we could live better and healthier lives. because we understand the process and this course will help you learn not only how to change your life but potentially learn how to truly change the world. So with all that, yes take the course ,but just know you will learn so much more than you think :)
Anonymous

This course has widen my little knowledge on food, nutrition and its relation to health. I find it is a very comprehensive course, giving you insight into the specifics of foods (metabolism and absorption for example) but also into a more global per…

This course has widen my little knowledge on food, nutrition and its relation to health. I find it is a very comprehensive course, giving you insight into the specifics of foods (metabolism and absorption for example) but also into a more global perspective on how foods affect health, where in the world it might be worse and why. This course has also given me a broad understanding of the different study designs, which allows me to have a better understanding when reading certain articles.
All in all I am very pleased with the course and would definitely recommend it to anybody wanting to widen their knowledge on nutrition. Also, the prestige of Wageningen University translates into the student being able to rely on the content that is provided.
Anonymous

INFORMATIVE AND USEFUL TOPICS.IT WILL BE REALLY USEFUL IN OUR DAILY LIFE. THESE TOPICS HELPS ME TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE VITAMINS,MINERALS,MACRONUTRIENTS,MICRONUTRIENTS,RDA FOR EACH GROUPS AND MORE OVER THE PRESENTATIONS WERE BEUTIFUL AND EASY TO UNDERSTSND.THANK YOU EDX TEAM FOR THE SUPPORT.
Anonymous

I thoroughly enjoyed this MOOC! The professors make complex micronutrient biochemistry feel simple and relevant through short, well‑structured videos, clear graphics, and practical case studies. Quizzes after every lesson reinforce the content, and the peer‑review project pushes you to apply what you’ve learned to a real‑world malnutrition problem. By the end, I understood not only how deficiencies develop but also how supplementation, fortification, and food‑based strategies can solve them. Highly recommended for anyone in nutrition, public health, or just curious about how vitamins and minerals keep us healthy.
Anonymous

i am really happy to join the edX course. my Course name is Nutrition and Health: Micronutrients and Malnutrition. It is helpful for me to learn new things in my life . everyone will be learn about nutrition and health.
Anonymous

Fantastic course. I learnt so much. It really helped me learn about my body more and what it needs. I have had a lot of health issues in the past and sometimes I still struggle. Some of it I assume it based on vitamins and minerals deficiency . This course was helpful and a stepping stone towards learning more about my body and in more detail.
Anonymous

I believe I learned so much about vitamin, micronutrients and how critically essential they are in keeping us healthy and functional. I got to learn about the different organizations that are making a difference to save the lives of people in low and moderate income countries.