Nutrition fundamentals

Nutrition fundamentals takes a deep dive into the core principles of healthy living through exploring the Australian Dietary Guidelines. In this course, you will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to effectively communicate these guidelines to clients, fostering positive lifestyle behaviours.

Who is this for?

This self-paced, online course has been designed for health and community professionals who want to increase their knowledge around nutrition and discussing nutrition fundamentals to better support clients.

What you will learn:

• What the government guidelines for nutrition are across different age groups.
• How to communicate these nutrition guidelines to clients.
• Effective ways to discuss strategies to support changes to eating behaviours.

What’s included?

A breakdown of the Australian dietary guidelines including an introduction to the guidelines, the five food groups, serves and portions, fats, sugars, salt and alcohol, breastfeeding practices and safe food handling and storage. This course also includes a knowledge check, to confirm your understanding of the content.

Who developed this course?

This course has been developed and validated by Better Health Company’s team of health professionals, including psychologists, dietitians, exercise professionals, and International Board Certified Lactation Consultants®. Their collective expertise ensures that the content is comprehensive, evidence-based, and tailored to meet the highest standards of quality and accuracy.

What can you do next?

We provide health education for everyone, from health professionals to kids and families. All of our online courses are easy to access and interactive! Browse our suite of online courses for different learners: access here.

We have over 15 years of experience providing health education and training to over 100,000 Australians. We are driven by the belief that everyone should have access to better health. So, we created the Better Health Hub. It is a home of trustworthy, evidence-based information and resources for all.