Nutrition Specialist Diploma

Course Introduction

One of the greatest pleasures of working as a nutrition specialist is watching your clients become healthier and happier as a result of your dietary advice. By sharing your knowledge, you can assist clients achieve goals of sustained weight loss or realise their sporting and fitness potential.

As people become more health conscious, the ability to advise clients on diet, nutrition and weight-related problems is becoming an essential requirement for any serious health and fitness professional. The majority of clients who have specific health and fitness goals, will usually require nutrition advice because many of these clients will have weight loss as an important aim.

This diploma will equip you with the knowledge - based on the latest scientific evidence and principles - needed to deliver an effective weight management course.

Course Format

Our Nutrition Specialist Diploma is a home study and online e-learning course, which means you, can study the entire qualification in the comfort of your own home, at a time and a pace to suit you. Throughout your training you will have access to our Technical Support team, who will help with any queries you have about the course.

This diploma will provide you with the knowledge and skills to enable you to :

• Provide nutritional and dietary advice to a range of clients
• Facilitate a weight management programme
• Work with sports professionals

Career Options

Our Nutrition Specialist Diploma will give you the platform to go on to enjoy a fulfilling career, offering nutritional advice to clients in one-to-one consultations or small group sessions. You could go on to do any of the following :

• Set up and run your own consultancy, advising on nutrition and weight management
• Work for leading health organisations offering dietary advice
• Specialise in advising amateur athletes and sports professionals on their nutritional needs

Award

Successful completion of this course will lead to a City and Guilds accredited Nutrition Specialist Diploma

Testimonial

Steve Book, Swindon Town professional footballer

"I took the Future Fit Nutrition Specialist Diploma and it was excellent quality. It gave you the basics as a start point and then the courses had the right amount of theory without being too intensive.

Future Fit were great all round fair play to them! Right from the moment I first phoned you could tell they knew their stuff and the careers advisors helped answer any questions that I had, which made the decision to go on the course easier. I was really pleased that I did the course and wouldnt hesitate in recommending the course or Future Fit to friends or colleagues.

I am now using my skills coaching and I have used all I learned from my Future Fit course into my new career but also into my everyday life. Its surprising what effect nutrition can have on the body and fitness and it has opened up a new side to the way I look at my body and the people I am responsible for."

Check out the Future Fit Training website for further course details and to read more on what Steve had to say.

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