The overriding theme of this module is healthy eating practices, with a particular focus on eating around exercise to enhance performance and the achievement of personal weight goals (loss, maintenance, or gain). This module will provide you with a grounding in basic nutritional principles. You'll learn how to apply critical thought processes to analysing current dietary trends and be able to give scientifically backed advice in regards to the advantages and disadvantages of common dietary practices.
The module combines theoretical knowledge with plenty of practical opportunities to embed knowledge.
We’ll cover:
- Scope of practice
- Foundational concepts
- New Zealand Nutrition guidelines
- Nutrition principles
- Client goals
- Performing dietary analysis
- Dietary trends
The fine print
After completing this module, you’ll be able to apply a health and wellness framework and evidence-based nutrition principles to support a personalised exercise programme and recommend referral pathways to allied health professionals.
To break this down further, you will have shown that you can:
- Demonstrate an understanding of how diet and exercise can impact on the success of client outcomes.
- Apply evidence- based nutrition principles to suit client goals and outcomes
- Demonstrate an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of common dietary practices – e.g. fasting, paleo, low carbohydrate, high protein diets.
- Use appropriate techniques for gathering nutritional data, and templates for summarizing data.
- Analyse current client dietary practices and make appropriate recommendations for improvement.
- Demonstrate an understanding of appropriate referral options for nutritional advice/information.
As a personal trainer, you will play a valuable role in supporting and helping your clients with obesity, eating disorders, diabetes and more. To help you in this area, working alongside doctors or consulting a dietician to help your client achieve success in these areas should be considered. If you require support for yourself or your whānau/family, please get in touch with your tutor or some of the supporting links below.
| Eating Disorders Association of NZ | Phone (09) 5222 679. Offering support, practical advice and understanding so you can help your loved one recover from an eating disorder. |
| Canopy Eating Disorders Support Services, NZ | Provides free live chat, online support, peer to peer support and other services across New Zealand to support New Zealanders healing from eating disorders & disordered eating. |
| Family Mental Health Support Inc South Canterbury | Phone 0800 732 000 or email office@famhs.nz. A free support service that offers a range of support options that might include information and education about mental illness and addiction, problem-solving, crisis planning and liaison/advocacy with other services. Referrals come from all sources, including self referrals. |
| Tupu Ora Regional Eating Disorder Services Auckland | 09 623 4650. Provides outpatient and inpatient care for people with eating disorders. |
| Central Region Eating Disorder Services (CREDS) Wellington | Phone 04 461 6528. Provides a range of treatment and support services for people with eating disorders, from dietetic support through to residential care. |
| South Island Eating Disorder Services Christchurch | 03 337 7707. Offers inpatient and outpatient treatment services. |
| Southern Support Eating Disorders Services Dunedin | Phone 0800 328 744. This community-based service provides free advice to anyone with questions or concerns about potential eating disorders. |
| Overeaters Anonymous | Overeaters Anonymous is a fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength, and hope are recovering from compulsive overeating. |
| Addictive Eaters Anonymous | Addictive Eaters Anonymous (AEA) is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from addictive eating. |
| Eating Disorders Carer Support (Facebook page) | EDCS supports and represents parents/whānau and carers of people who have eating disorders. They provide friendly, non-judgmental and confidential support via their online platform. They also provide information and resources and try to raise community awareness and understanding of eating disorders. |
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