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Health and wellbeing in the ancient world
History & The Arts

Health and wellbeing in the ancient world

...vitamins in the diet, and developing vaccinations and finding ways to preserve food safely. And which attitude really matters here? In this course, we've arranged the themes by looking at the parts of the body from head to toe. In Western medicine, this has been a traditional way of organising manuals for doctors. But we can also use this approach to think beyond purely...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...vitamin deficiency, childhood obesity and dental caries (decay). Lifestyle changes in childhood have meant that many children are less physically active than they used to be. The toxic combination of high energy food and drink and low levels of activity have led to the worrying levels of childhood obesity. The following sections start to look at these conditions in more...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare
History & The Arts

Medicine transformed: on access to healthcare

...vitamins and minerals (Burnett, 1979, pp. 245, 301–19). Just as members of the poorer classes found it difficult to afford a good diet, they also lacked the money, time, equipment and transport, never mind the energy after a long day at work, to take exercise. Personal hygiene too was difficult to achieve. Many working-class women struggled to keep their homes clean,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Eating for the environment
Nature & Environment

Eating for the environment

...vitamins and minerals). But does the current global food production address these nutritional needs? Unfortunately, it does not. The 2017 Global Nutrition Report suggests that nutrition is still a large-scale and universal problem (Development Initiatives, 2017). The global contradictions in the availability of food result in the double burden of malnutrition...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
The power of infographics in research dissemination
Education & Development

The power of infographics in research dissemination

...vitamin C? Should I be taking wheat grass? So this is a visualisation of all the evidence for nutritional supplements. This kind of diagram is called a balloon race. So the higher up the image, the more evidence there is for each supplement. And the bubbles correspond to popularity as regards to Google hits. So you can kind of immediately apprehend the relationship...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Supporting physical development in early childhood
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting physical development in early childhood

...Vitamin D. Vitamin D supplements are recommended from 6 months onwards. Physical activity Physical activity is important to provide children with opportunities to enjoy activities that encourage bone growth. These may include hanging from monkey-bars, pushing and pulling things around, digging holes, building dams, sweeping leaves or puddles, and whole-body movements like...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Studying mammals: Plant predators
Nature & Environment

Studying mammals: Plant predators

...vitamins and water. You may already know the importance of the first three listed ingredients as sources of energy and as the constituent 'building blocks' for synthesis. The food that you eat, or that any mammal eats, has to be digested before the nourishment in it can be absorbed from the intestines into the bloodstream. The nourishment is then carried round the body in...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment
Nature & Environment

Effects of pollutants on the aquatic environment

...vitamin C increases the risk of stomach cancer (Ward et al., 2011). Water quality standards exist to control pollution of domestic water supplies. The maximum limit set by the EU for nitrates in drinking water is 50 g m−3 (as NO3−) (EU, 1998). Water with a high nitrate content can be treated for drinking using reverse osmosis. The effects on the biota of organic...
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Level 3: Advanced 3 hrs