Mission:Explore Food: 4

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To begin, you’ll learn about what food contains and what makes it special. From macronutrients and micronutrients to antioxidants, you’ll discover how each element contributes to your overall health and wellbeing. The importance of nutrition and the impact of different public health initiatives from around the world. We’ll explore how food was used as medicine in the past and the role food plays in disease prevention and treatment. You’ll also learn how we can make food a part of medicine in the future. The importance of nutrition for your brain and gut Finally, we’ll discuss the complexities of nutrition science, how it’s evolving, and how nutrition misinformation may end up as fact. Then you’ll learn to apply mindfulness to the way you engage with your food.

This course will have broad general interest appeal to everyone interested in food, nutrition and health. But it will be of particular interest to healthcare professionals who are looking to have more evidenced-based information, to assist them in providing food-based recommendations to their patients. AfN Certified Course In your second week, you’ll investigate the different relationships between food and the gut, brain, appetite and genes. You’ll also gain an understanding of how food affects fertility and pregnancy. How much iron is in your cereal? In this experiment, you will devise a way of testing foods for supplemental iron additives. Then you will use your design to test different breakfast cereals to see how much iron they contain. Which brand of cereal will have the most iron in it? Identify how and which types of foods are essential for health and wellbeing, and play an important role in treating/preventing disease. You could work for a range of organisations involved in researching and developing new products, including:Thinking about improving your sports performance? Want to help friends and family make the most of their physical fitness activities? One factor to consider is food! Whether you realize it or not, what you eat does change your body! It affects how you feel, and can even change how you perform in sports. This science fair project will help you explore the link between what goes in your mouth and what your legs and arms can do. You’ll examine how new food technologies are revolutionising food production and how new products are developed.

Analyse the biological pathways of digestion to discover how different nutrients travel and are absorbed by the body. Have you ever wondered how nutritionists know how many Calories a certain food contains? In this project you will learn a method for measuring how many Calories (how much chemical energy) is available in different types of food. You will build your own calorimeter to capture the energy released by burning a small food item, like a nut or a piece of popcorn. This project gives a new meaning to the phrase "burning calories!" IANE membership enables access to a global network of medical nutrition experts and knowledge symposia, bespoke support and mentorship to implement nutrition into practice, and opportunities to participate in public health nutrition advocacy initiatives through NNEdPro’s partnership with governmental and non-governmental organisations. Explore food has been designed to be easy to use, guiding pupils through the analysis of a recipe or a day’s diet. It provides data for the pupil to analyse and draw conclusions away from their PC or tablet, further supporting their studies.GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C), or equivalent, including English and maths, for an advanced apprenticeship Explore food has been designed to be easy to use, guiding pupils through the analysis of a recipe or a day’s diet. It provides data for the pupil to analyse and draw conclusions away from their PC or tablet, further supporting their studies. Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities Nutrition information is based on the McCance and Widdowson's The Composition of Foods integrated dataset (CoF IDS) (2015). The data is available from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/composition-of-foods-integrated-dataset-cofid The information used in this resource is provided under the Open Government Licence. Terms can be found at: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence You’ll also explore how nutritional needs vary in different countries and how policies on nutrition are developed.