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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Course Overview

Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain certification is a course that focuses on weekly classes of 4 hours that is held for only 5 short weeks. This course will find the interlinking between the brains’ effects on food choices

Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain certification syllabus shows us the importance of the link between gut and brain in terms of food choices. The course will teach how exactly the human brain functions and how it gets affected by deficiencies of nutrition, and improper diet. 

Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain training will help find out the complexity of the relationship between food, and the reproductive system, and between gut, and brain.

The Highlights

  • Online course on the brain-gut axis
  • 5 weeks session
  • 4 hours classes
  • FutureLearn completion certificate
  • Own paced learning
  • Course accreditation

Programme Offerings

  • 5 Weeks
  • Online Course
  • 4 Hours Per Week
  • Certificate of completion
  • Progress Mapping
  • Global Classroom
  • self paced course

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 11044yesFuturelearn

Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain Fee Structure

Description 

Amount in INR

Subscribe & save

₹6,500 for one year

Buy this course (one-off payment)

₹ 11,044
Limited accessFree

Eligibility Criteria

Educational Qualification

  • Age or educational qualification is not a bar for the Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain certification by FutureLearn.

  • Well, there is a special preference given to the students with psychology or background.

Work Experience

  • For this programme no field-related professional experience is essential.

Certification Qualifying Details

Once the applicants sign up, and study all the course content, and submit all the requisite assessments, then they will become eligible to get an achievement certificate.

What you will learn

Knowledge of Psychology

This course will enlighten the students with information on the following topics:

  • Candidates can explain what role does diet play on the functions performed by the brain.
  • Learners can understand what are the psychological and neurobiological factors that affect our choices of food adversely.
  • Candidates can find out all the causes possible that are responsible for unhealthy eating behaviours.
  • Whatever topics are being discussed with the candidates they can establish a connection with it in their daily lives.

Who it is for

This course is not targeted to a specific group of people as it can suit just anybody with an interest in establishing a relationship between food, brain, and gut. If someone is a psychologist or working in the sector of health then this course may prove to be more useful.


Admission Details

The admission to this course has been explained with the help of these 5 steps written below:

Step 1: Start by visiting the official website of the course.

Step 2: Next students can click on the button written as ‘Join course for free’ or ‘Register’.

Step 3:The buttons will open the same page for new registration.

Step 4: Any new registration can be done with Facebook or Gmail.

Step 5: Finally for the entire process to be completed the students will have to pay some fee.

Application Details

Candidates do not get any application form but all they get to fill is a registration form that will help in creating a new account on the provider platform of FutureLearn. The details that have to be filled online are name, age, email id, etc.

The Syllabus

  • Welcome to the course
  • Introduction to the brain and cognition

  • The reward system and response to feeding
  • Food addiction

  • Emotions and food intake
  • Cognition and food intake

  • Food and our brain: the good
  • and the bad

  • Microbiome and the gut-brain axis
  • Microbiome and the brain

Instructors

University of Turin, Turin Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

1: Which institution has been certifying this course?

The provider FutureLearn has been certifying this course.

2: Who gives accreditation to this course?

The CPD Certification Service gives certification to this course.

3: Which institutes have been supporting the Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain programme content?

The two supporting institutes are the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research and the University of HohenHeim.

4: Is registration free for all participants of the Food for Thought: The Relationship Between Food, Gut and Brain certification course?

Yes, the registration is completely free of any cost for all the participants.

5: Are there any financial aid available for the applicants?

No, there aren't any financial aids available for the applicants.

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