Course description
Nutrition & Diet Course
The course provides an opportunity to interact with and learn from very successful, highly qualified and experienced professionals. Training towards becoming a nutritionist allows you to enter the fastest grow area with more and more people requiring advice and guidance for their nutritional needs.
How Will You Benefit?
- Fast track your career in natural health / nutritionist work
- Learn the inside secrets of natural health and nutrition in months not years!
- Study a counselling course that was designed in conjunction with senior members of the profession
- Free up valuable time, don’t waste time and money travelling to classes
- Study at your own pace whenever and wherever you are
- Have access to a tutor
- Easy interest-free payment plans from as low as $39 per week
Upcoming start dates
Who should attend?
There are no previous work or education requirements for entry into any course level.
Training content
- Nutrition
- Weight loss
- Diets and planning diets
- Obesity
- Food and energy levels
- Preventative measures
- Treatments
- Medical conditions
- Digestion and absorption
- Assessing nutritional needs
- Protein, vitamins, minerals, water, nutrients, carbohydrates and fats
- Food processing
- Detoxification
- Creating plans
- Counselling skills
- Providing consultations to clients
Course delivery details
This entire course is carried out via Distance Learning (also known as correspondence learning). Distance learning is ideal if you need to adapt around work, family, or other commitments. It is also extremely beneficial should you simply wish to fast track your studies (and career) and not be locked into a timetable.
Our course content and learning experience ensure that your course is relevant and interesting. Learning, tutorial assistance and assessments take place whenever and wherever you are in the country or world. It takes place at your own pace on your own terms to fit your lifestyle. As an ICI student, you’ll never endure a pop quiz, spend countless hours and hundreds of dollars travelling, and never be late with an assignment or for class.
Course Length
ICI courses allow you to study at your own pace with no assignment deadlines. This means that you determine the pace of the course and within which time period you will ultimately complete your studies in.
- Completing your course with ICI is flexible as you can fast-track and graduate in a matter of months. You complete activities and submit assignments whenever you are ready.
- The maximum time given to complete a program is three years.
Certification / Credits
On successful completion of the course you will receive:
- A graduation certificate officially recognizing your successful completion of natural health(nutrition) studies
- Transcripts indicating units completed
- Letter of recommendation and validation for current and future employers
- Post-nominal letters placed after your name which indicate that you hold the relevant qualification. For example: John Smith, DipNtDt
Continuing studies
Career opportunities include: weight loss consultants and nutritionists. With further study, you could become a dietician or personal trainer. The opportunities can be perused as an employee or as a part of your own private consultancy.
Typically tasks graduates of our program will regularly conduct are the following activities:
- discuss diet, nutrition and weight loss strategies with clients
- assist in the creating weight loss menus and diaries for clients
- assist with food selection based on nutritional content labelling
- assist with weight loss measurements and weight loss calculations
- provide emotional support and ongoing coaching
- provide nutritional based counselling
- Discuss and refer clients to other health and fitness providers.
Why choose ICI?
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91% would recommend to a friend
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