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Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)

Nutrition and Lifestyle in Pregnancy

Nutrition and Lifestyle in Pregnancy offers an overview of the latest research findings and international recommendations on a variety of nutrition-related aspects and outcomes of pregnancy. Ensuring a healthy nutritional status and lifestyle prior to and during pregnancy is one of the best ways to help support the healthy growth and development of the unborn child. We will look at how a healthy diet and lifestyle should ideally be achieved prior to conception and provide recommendations for pre-conception counseling of women. We will also look at the nutrient recommendations for a healthy pregnancy to ensure optimal maternal and fetal outcomes as well as focus on the most common nutrition-related pregnancy complications; obesity and gestational diabetes. The learner will have the opportunity to delve into the cutting-edge world of epigenetic and metabolomic research and appreciate the enormous role that these programming effects have in long-term health and disease outcomes. Finally, we offer real-life, everyday situations and questions from pregnant women to aid healthcare professionals in the nutrition-based counseling of pregnant women and their families. In addition to the English original, subtitles in Portuguese language are available now! Once you finish this course, we invite you to navigate the world of nutrition in infancy during the first six months of life through our newly launched course "Breastfeeding and Adequate Substitutes".

Status: Food Safety and Sanitation
Status: Patient Education And Counseling
IntermediateCourse7 hours

Featured reviews

MI

5.0Reviewed May 15, 2018

Very informative. Great for all women who which to become pregnant one day. I believe taking this course before becoming pregnant will be of great advantage for the mother and the child.

DA

4.0Reviewed Mar 17, 2021

The topics in Unit 3 were too academic and difficult to understand. Overall I was expecting that a daily or weekly nutrition plan would be suggested however no example of meal plans were provided.

RM

5.0Reviewed Aug 13, 2019

Helped me understand the importance of good nutrition during pregnancy. This course helped me build my knowledge of nutrition and how we must bring about lifestyle changes for a healthy pregnancy.

AK

5.0Reviewed Apr 17, 2020

As a healthcare practitioner working in remote areas where malnutrition is common, this was very useful. It enabled me to confidently give sound advice to pregnant patients to improve outcomes

RN

5.0Reviewed Oct 20, 2020

Its been a great active learning and understanding based course highlighting the basic protocols in real life dealing. I am glad to be a part of this great initiative .More power to the team :)

AA

5.0Reviewed May 16, 2020

I really enjoyed this course as nutrition is part of our life and most importantly during pregnancy... This course gave me an insight to how well we have to manage our lifestyle during pregnancy

LL

5.0Reviewed Mar 25, 2022

W​hile parts of this course went a little over my head due to only basic background in the sciences, I felt like it was both interesting and informative and enjoyed taking it.

FS

5.0Reviewed Feb 5, 2023

A very good course for those who want to support a pregnanct person or who want to be pregnant or who are waiting their little one to come. I myself learned alot and advice others to take it!

HQ

5.0Reviewed Sep 9, 2020

BEING A NUTRITION MAJOR STUDENT, THIS COURSE WAS REALLY HELPFUL FOR ADVANCING MY KNOWLEDGE IN NUTRITION IN PREGNANCY. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS COURSE TO EVERYONE. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

CV

5.0Reviewed Feb 5, 2021

I would like to thank all the mentors for making this course. I have learned so much from all of you and I cannot wait to be able to use this course in applying it in my clinical practice.

ST

5.0Reviewed Aug 13, 2020

These type of course is excellent for the learning students and also for those parents who are planning to have a baby.This will help them to know about the health and care during pregnancy.

NP

5.0Reviewed Sep 10, 2021

The course is so beneficial for me to understand the changes in physiological, metabolism and nutrition requirements for pregnant woman to maintain health for the mother and also the baby.

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