The world of social media provides an overwhelming amount of information on food and nutrition. Often this information can be misleading and, in some instances, harmful to people’s health. For the average person, it is difficult to know whether this information is fact or fiction. UCD Food and Health Public Lectures 2022 features ‘How to Keep Your Vitamin D Levels up this Winter’ from Dr Aifric O’Sullivan
How to Keep Your Vitamin D Levels up this Winter
The UCD Institute of Food and Health is an international leader in food and health research focusing on Food Safety, Food Sustainability, Primary Production Systems, Innovative Processing & Food Quality, and Nutrition & Health. Communicating sound, factual scientific-based evidence is an integral part of our work. Continuing the 2022 series of public lectures, UCD invite you to Aifric O’Sullivan’s lecture How to Keep Your Vitamin D Levels up this Winter – taking place on Monday 14th November 2022.
The lecture will be streamed live via Zoom. Registration is essential and a link will be sent in advance of each lecture with login details.
Featured Course
Diploma In Nutrition – January 2023
City Colleges
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of nutrition; specifically functional nutrition, macro and micro nutrient composition, symptomatology, paediatric and geriatric nutrition, sugar consumption and dietary habits, psychology of food, preventive nutrition for illness and disease, dietary habits and covers aspects of sports nutrition. This course is particularly beneficial for those in the education or learning sector (pre-school teachers, special needs teachers, childcare assistants), social sector (social workers, youth workers, homeless housing), care sector (nurses, geriatric care, paediatric care, psychiatric care, physically disabled, learning disabled), paramedical sector (physiotherapists, chiropractors) and equally, if you have an interest in; What is the macronutrient, vitamin and mineral content of foods and in what ratio do we require these to attain optimal health; What are free radicals and how do they affect us; What are antioxidants and how do they benefit us; How to achieve a healthy immune system; What can prevent physical and mental disease within the body; What do we require to increase life longevity; How to detoxify the body to alleviate symptoms of illness; What is in the food that we consume, well then this is the course for you.
This course provides up to date scientific research, a well-rounded view and base of knowledge to allow the student to identify what they require for their own personal health, that of their families and perhaps friends and to enhance their professional development. The study of nutrition is vast and extensive but we will none the less delve in deep into this exciting world over the course of 10 weeks. Students will have the opportunity to become a member of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism upon completion of the course.
This course is offered three times per year, in January, April and September.
