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Contents
- Introduction and guidance
- What is a badged course?
- How to get a badge
- Introduction
- 1 Why do we eat?
- 2 Protein
- 3 Fats and oils
- 4 Carbohydrates
- 5 Salt makes food taste good
- 6 Vitamins and minerals
- 7 Where can you find fibre?
- 8 This week’s quiz
- 9 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Holes, tubes and valves
- 2 A window into the stomach
- 3 Peristalsis
- 4 This week’s quiz
- 5 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 What is hydration?
- 2 Why you need to drink
- 3 How much should you drink?
- 4 What should you drink?
- 5 Caffeine intake
- 6 Effects of dehydration
- 7 Physical activity and fluid intake
- 8 Alcohol intake
- 9 This week’s quiz
- 10 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 What is in my food?
- 2 Chemical analysis
- 3 Presenting the data on the packaging
- 4 Allergens
- 5 Food additives
- 6 Traffic-light system
- 7 Eating like a horse!
- 8 Packaging claims – to confuse the unwary shopper
- 9 Do you look at food labels differently now?
- 10 This week’s quiz
- 11 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 How much energy is in food?
- 2 Calories and joules
- 3 How much food do we need?
- 4 Sweeteners
- 5 This week’s quiz
- 6 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 The Eatwell Guide
- 2 Healthy snacks
- 3 Vegetarian and vegan diets
- 4 Malnutrition
- 5 Food in the Second World War and food banks now
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 Food allergy
- 2 Food intolerance
- 3 Diagnosing and managing a food allergy and food intolerance
- 4 Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- 5 Coeliac disease
- 6 This week’s quiz
- 7 Summary
- Introduction
- 1 How we taste food
- 2 Reasons for eating
- 3 Food habits
- 4 Eating disorders
- 5 Your food diary
- 6 Summary
- 7 This week’s quiz
- 8 End-of-course round up
- Tell us what you think
- Where next?
- References
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
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