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Scientific Nutrition Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Natural Health Science via distance learning
Scientific Nutrition via distance learning
Through the ages, man has wondered about the connection between nutrition and human health and performance. In scientific nutrition, health and wellness depend upon a dietary intake that provide all chemical nutrients vital to maintain the biochemical harmony of the body. Every disease, symptom, discharge, and pain indicates a chemical imbalance in the body. The realities of nutrition are based on the kind and quantity of nutrients contained in each food and that required to carry out the chemical reactions necessary to sustain a healthy life.
Academic Supervisor : Leonie van Heerden
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Scientific Nutrition Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Scientific Nutrition.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Food Science - Nutrition & Diet Therapy .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Scientific Nutrition Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Scientific Nutrition via distance learning = 45 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Scientific Nutrition Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Scientific Nutrition via distance learning = 45 Academic credits + 60 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Natural Health Science from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Food Science.
Master's Degree - Scientific Nutrition Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Scientific Nutrition via distance learning = 45 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Natural Health Science from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Food Science. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Scientific Nutrition Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Scientific Nutrition via distance learning = 45 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Natural Health Science from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Food Science. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
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Scientific Nutrition Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
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Diets & Fasting
This course provides an analysis and evaluation of various dietary regimes. It focuses on the nutritional, spiritual, and social aspects of food beliefs: Vegetarianism, macrobiotics, raw food, food combining, and hereditary predisposition. It explains the benefits of fasting and the different approaches used to ensure tissue cleansing and detoxification. It finally considers the mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual issues related to diets and fasting.
Academic Supervisor: Boris Wydoff
Proteins & Carbohydrates
This course studies proteins and carbohydrates and describes their metabolic and physiologic concepts, functions, and structures. It considers the proteins and carbohydrates composition of food products, their requirements through the life cycle, the quality of proteins, protein deficiency, carbohydrates physiological importance, low carbohydrate diets, glycemic response to foods, and inborn errors in carbohydrate and protein metabolism.
Academic Supervisor: Leonie van Heerden
Lipids & Fats
This course overviews lipids and fats, the composition of human fluids and tissues, their metabolism, their effects, and physiological functions. It examines the effects of diseases on the molecular structure of lipids and the ways their changes can be reversed through proper nutrition.
Academic Supervisor: Leonie van Heerden
Vitamins & Minerals
This course examines biologically essential minerals and vitamins and their absorption, transport, function, storage, excretion, imbalance, deficiency, and toxicity. It considers the dietary sources and role of minerals and vitamins in health, and the role of modern food technology on the availability of these nutrients in our food supply.
Academic Supervisor: Marcos Mazzuka Petitta
Human Nutrition
This course examines the properties, functions, requirements, interrelationships, and metabolism of nutrients, and the nutritional needs throughout stages of the life cycle including pregnancy and lactation, infancy, adolescence, and aging. It deals with the socioeconomic, cultural, and psychological influences of food, nutrition behavior, food safety, and biotechnology.
Academic Supervisor: Leonie van Heerden
Digestion & Metabolism
This course discusses the principles of digestion, absorption, and nutrients metabolism as well as the role of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes in these processes. It enumerates the essential micronutrients used in human metabolism and the effects they have on restoring and maintaining the biochemical balances of cell and tissues.
Academic Supervisor: Boris Wydoff
Oligotherapy
This course explains how to administer precise amounts of oligo elements to treat different health disorders. Oligotherapy works upon the cell's enzymes by introducing precise low level amounts of specific trace elements which serve to detoxify and reactivate blocked healthy enzyme processes. These elements restore the normal functioning capacity of the cell and enables the body to utilize essential vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients to obtain the right healing process.
Academic Supervisor: Boris Wydoff
Maternal & Infant Nutrition
This course considers the influence of maternal and infant nutrition on the health of populations, and the nutrition-related physiological, psychological, and social factors in pregnancy, lactation, and infancy. It provides recommendations to maternal and infant nutrition and interventions formulas for high-risk populations and individuals.
Academic Supervisor: Leonie van Heerden
Biochemical Organic Balance
Every disease, symptom, discharge, and pain indicates a chemical imbalance in the body. A body that is chemically well-balanced will normalize itself. This course focuses on the chemical elements, their structures, and their application, including vitamins, enzymes, proteins, starches, prostaglandins, and minerals found in foods in order to understand the biochemical organic balance from which health and well-being spring.
Academic Supervisor: Jose W. Rodriguez
Food Chemistry
This course explains the relationship between food composition and properties as well as the physico-chemical changes food undergoes during processing, storage, and consumption. It examines the physical and chemical methods fused to analyze food, and uses common food to highlight the complex relationship between the physical and chemical properties of food.
Academic Supervisor: Jorge Poveda Arias
Food Processing
This course discusses the methods used to preserve food namely cooling, freezing, heating, dehydration, concentration, irradiation, fermentation, and chemicals. It highlights new trends in food preservation and explains the molecular structure of major food components and how they are altered by processing and preservation.
Academic Supervisor: Jorge Poveda Arias
Nutritional Assessment
This course reviews the dietary, clinical, and biochemical components used in the assessment of a person and/or group's nutritional status. It discusses the interrelationships between these nutrients and their effect(s) when subjected to varying levels of nutrient intake. It provides detailed protocols for the nutritional assessment of various situations. These protocol describe clinical definitions, causative/ contributory factors, protective factors, assessments, and therapy for each condition.
Academic Supervisor: Leonie van Heerden
Nutritional Intervention
This course presents the nutritional therapeutic applications in the prevention and treatment of common diseases and disorders. It describes therapeutic diets, dietary manipulation, and dietary supplements used to help restore the normal physiological function and structural integrity of the body and its organs by providing its natural components. It explains strategies, counseling skills, and diet modifications to prevent and manage disease.
Academic Supervisor: Leonie van Heerden
Nutrition in Aging
This course examines the interactions of nutrition with behavior, growth, and development of human populations and individuals; from infancy to adulthood and later years. It considers the physiological, psychological, social, cultural, and economic factors affecting nutrition in aging as well as the evaluation problems and strategies for health interventions.
Academic Supervisor: Leonie van Heerden
Orthomolecular & Scientific Nutrition
This course analyzes disease etiology (causation) from cell and tissue nutrition-based perspective. It overviews the organic deficiencies and malnutrition caused by a typical modern diet that imbalances our biochemistry. It explains how to recognize these deficiency signs and symptoms and identify good nutritional sources and available forms of dietary supplements for good health.
Academic Supervisor: Leonie van Heerden
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Scientific Nutrition Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
AANC - American Association of Nutritional Consultants
ABMO - Associação Brasileira de Medicina Ortomolecular
ABNE - Associação Brasileira de Nutrição Esportiva
ABRAN - Asociación Brasileña de Nutrología
ADNC - Association de Diététique et Nutrition Critiques
ADNO - Association pour le Developpement de la Nutrition Orthomoleculaire
AENTOC - Asociación Española de Nutricionistas y Terapeutas Ortomoleculares Cualificados
AFDN - Association Française des Diététiciens Nutritionniste
ANA - American Nutrition Association
ANMA - American Nutritional Medical Association
ASN - American Society for Nutrition
BANT - British Association for Applied Nutrition and Nutritional Therapy
BDA - British Dietetic Association
CFN - Conselho Federal de Nutricionistas
CNCB - Clinical Nutrition Certification Board
CPT - Consejo Profesional de Terapeutas Holísticos
CPT - Council of Holistic Professional Therapists
EASO - European Association for the Study of Obesity
FENS - Federation of European Nutrition Societies
FESNAD - Federación Española de Sociedades de Nutrición, Alimentación y Dietética
FINUT - Fundación Iberoamericana de Nutrición
FNTP - Federation of Nutritional Therapy Practitioners
IAACN - International & American Associations of Clinical Nutritionists
IAEDP - International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals Foundation
IONC - International Organization of Nutritional Consultants
ISOM - International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine
ISSN - International Society of Sports Nutrition
IUNS - International Union of Nutritional Sciences
NANP - National Association of Nutritional Practitioners
NNA - Naturopathic Nutrition Association
NNHSA - Nutrition and Natural Health Science Association
NTA - Nutritional Therapy Association
NTEC - Nutritional Therapy Education Commission
OHMS - Orthomolecular Health Medicine Society
SBAN - Sociedade Brasileira de Alimentação e Nutrição
SEDCA - Sociedad Española de Dietética y Ciencias de la Alimentación
SEÑ - Sociedad Española de Nutrición
SENO - Sociedad Española de Nutrición Ortomolecular
SFN - Société Française de Nutrition
SFNEP - Société Francophone Nutrition Clinique et Métabolisme
SFNS - Société Française de Nutrition du Sport
SLAN - Sociedad Latinoamericana de Nutrición
SNFS - Society of Nutrition and Food Science
SPCNA - Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências da Nutrição e Alimentação
TNS - The Nutrition Society
UFNA - Union Française pour la Nutrition et l'Alimentation
WOF - World Obesity Federation
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Admission requirements - Scientific Nutrition
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
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Duration - Scientific Nutrition Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
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Faculty of Natural Health Science via distance learning
Scientific Nutrition Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
