Duration of the online course: 9 hours and 55 minutes
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Want to feel more in control of your health, energy, and weight without falling for food myths? This free online nutrition course helps you build a clear, practical understanding of how nutrition really works, so you can make confident choices in a world full of conflicting advice. Instead of trends and rigid rules, you will learn to think scientifically about food and evaluate claims with common-sense principles you can use for life.
You will explore what nutrients are, why your body needs them, and how recommended daily guidelines are created and used. Just as important, you will connect nutrients to real foods and everyday decisions, understanding how digestion transforms what you eat into the building blocks that support your body. With this foundation, it becomes easier to spot both nutritional gaps and excesses, and to understand how modern abundance can quietly push choices that undermine long-term wellbeing.
The course also connects nutrition to disease prevention by showing how everyday patterns accumulate into risk or protection over time. You will examine how our modern environment clashes with ancient biology, and how big shifts in lifestyle and food systems have reshaped what we eat. This perspective can explain why changing habits is not just about willpower and why many people struggle even when they know what they should do.
Because eating is more than biology, you will also learn about hunger, satiety, and the strong influence of stress, comfort eating, and social cues. The course addresses disordered patterns and warning signs so you can recognize unhealthy cycles early and respond with more awareness and care. Finally, you will work through strategies to reshape routines in realistic steps, making progress that fits your life. If your goal is weight loss, better health, or simply a stronger relationship with food, this course offers a grounded path forward and skills you can apply immediately.
Video class: Welcome to Nutrition Steps!
10m
Exercise: What is the goal of the course?
Video class: The Science of Nutrition
19m
Exercise: What is a fundamental principle of scientific evaluation?
Video class: The Key Principles of Nutrition
10m
Exercise: What are the three key principles of a healthy diet highlighted in the text?
Video class: Preventing Nutritional Deficiencies
11m
Exercise: What nutrient deficiency causes beriberi?
Video class: Avoiding Nutritional Excesses
07m
Exercise: What health risk is highlighted in the video transcript due to the abundance of food options?
Video class: Promoting Health and Preventing Disease with Optimal Nutrition
09m
Exercise: What is the underlying cause of most leading diseases today?
Video class: What is a nutrient?
06m
Exercise: Which are the categories of nutrients?
Video class: A brief survey of nutrients
06m
Exercise: What is the primary function of carbohydrates?
Video class: How much do we need of a Nutrient?
08m
Exercise: What is the purpose of the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) in nutrient intake?
Video class: Nutrient Composition of Foods
10m
Exercise: Calculating Protein Content in Food
Video class: From Nutrients To Food
18m
Exercise: What concept strongly influences our idea of what is considered food?
Video class: From Food Back To Nutrients: The Digestive Process
08m
Exercise: What is the primary function of bile in the digestive process?
Video class: Ancient Genes in Modern Times: An Evolutionary Perspective of Nutrition
08m
Exercise: What major change in lifestyle affects our genes?
Video class: Old, New and Different Food
11m
Exercise: What was one major change in human diet after the agricultural revolution?
Video class: Hunger and Satiety
09m
Exercise: What is a major cause of obesity in the described subject?
Video class: Do we eat only when we are hungry?
05m
Exercise: What primarily influences people to eat besides hunger?
Video class: Comfort Eating, Stress Eating and Other Disordered Eating Behaviors
09m
Exercise: What is a common pattern of disordered eating focused on emotional relief rather than physical hunger?
Video class: Eating Disorders: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa
10m
Exercise: What is the primary warning sign for anorexia nervosa in women?
Video class: What drives our food choices?
08m
Exercise: What factors mainly influence our food choices?
Video class: Strategies and Tricks to Change our Eating Habits
15m
Exercise: Which one is a step to change eating behavior?
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Course comments: Nutrition Course
Students found the free course clear, well-structured, and very interesting, with topics explained in detail. Many praised the professor’s teaching, recommending the course and highlighting useful lessons, especially the vitamins and minerals breakdown.
ILIRJANA AGOLLI
Doctor Stefano is amazing so articulated so good techer. He deserves 100 stars. Course w is so great.
ILIRJANA AGOLLI
Yes, very interesting course
Alex Elia Nkolokosa
the course is well explained and articulated
Resalyn C. Colomer
I love the course. The professor is excellent. I recommend this course.
Resalyn C. Colomer
Every topic is well explained. He is so amazing.
Matlou Moloto
Great course
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great course
Captain Rizwan
Dr. Stefano did a wonderfull job. amazing how he expalin every thing like amazing. deserves more than 5 stars.
saranya.M
it's so useful tio us thank for this opportunity
Kristy
This was a very interesting course. I especially liked the breakdown of all our Vitamins and Minerals and what each one does.