Course overview
Each week you’ll look at a different theme:The makings of a healthy dietWhat are the principal constituents of food?Which components of your diet can promote wellbeing and reduce the risk of diseases?Why do we eat what we eat?What are the drivers that influence our food choices?How do we make sense of available nutrition information?Food and diseaseCan you really eat your way to health?Nutrition fads, myths and the plain truthIs there such a thing as a ‘miracle’ diet?Do superfoods exist, or are our genes to blame for our current nutritional habits?