Improve your knowledge through this program, where you will find the best didactic material with real clinical cases. Learn here about the latest advances in the speciality to be able to perform quality nutritional practice" 

During childhood, nutrition is essential to ensure proper growth and maintain a good level of health. It is a very important period of life since it serves to establish nutritional habits that continue throughout life.

Inadequate nutrition in childhood increases risk factors such as obesity and other diseases in adulthood. That’s why it is fundamental that nutritionists know the latest advances in food and nutrition in the genesis, treatment and monitoring of different childhood pathologies.

This program offers a global vision of Pediatric Nutrition while focusing on the most important and innovative aspects of nutrition in the pediatric age group, including from the intrauterine phase to adolescence, as well as the diseases in which nutrition plays a highly relevant role.

This program provides specialist knowledge in the field of Pediatric Nutrition in areas of particular interest such as:

• Nutrigenetics
• Nutrigenomics 
• Nutrition and Obesity
• Hospital Dietetics
• Nutritional Trends 
• Being an online program, the student is not constrained by fixed schedules or the need to physically move to another location, but can access the contents at any time of the day, balancing their work or personal life with their academic life

This Postgraduate diploma contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market"

This Postgraduate diploma in Pediatric Nutrition contains the most complete and up-to-date scientific program on the market. The most important features of this course include: 

• The graphic, schematic, and eminently practical contents with which they are created provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• It contains exercises where the self-assessment process can be carried out to improve learning
• Algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making for patients with feeding problems
• All of this will be complemented by theoretical lessons, questions to the expert, debate forums on controversial topics, and individual reflection assignments
• Content that is accessible from any fixed or portable device with an Internet connection

This Postgraduate diploma may be the best investment you can make when choosing a refresher program for two reasons: in addition to updating your knowledge in Pediatric Nutrition, you will obtain a certificate from the largest online educational institution, TECH”

Its teaching staff includes renowned specialists in nutrition based on clinical practice, who bring the experience of their work to this training.

Thanks to the multimedia content developed with the latest educational technology, they will provide the Nutritionist with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive training program to train in real situations.

The design of this programme is based on Problem-Based Learning, by means of which the nutritionist must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise during the course.

For this reason, you will be assisted by an innovative, interactive video system created by renowned and experienced experts in the field of radiology with extensive teaching experience.

It includes clinical cases to bring the program's degree as close as possible to the reality of care in nutrition"

Improve your skills in the approach to Pediatric Nutrition through this Postgraduate diploma"

The structure of the contents has been designed by a team of professionals familiar with the implications of specialization in daily practice, aware of the relevance of the current specialization in Pediatric Nutrition, and who are committed to quality teaching through new educational technologies.

This refresher program will generate a sense of security in nutritional practice, which will help you grow both personally and professionally”

Module 1. New Developments in Nutrition

1.1. Molecular Foundations of Nutrition
1.2. Update on Food Composition
1.3. Food Composition Tables and Nutritional Databases
1.4. Phytochemicals and Non-Nutritional Compounds
1.5. New Foods

1.5.1. Functional Nutrients and Bioactive Compounds
1.5.2. Probiotics, Prebiotics, and Synbiotics
1.5.3. Quality and Design

1.6. Organic Foods
1.7. Transgenic Foods
1.8. Water as a Nutrient
1.9. Food Safety

1.9.1. Physical, Chemical, and Microbiological Hazards

1.10. New Labelling and Consumer Information
1.11. Phytotherapy Applied to Nutritional Pathologies

Module 2. Physiology of Infant Nutrition

2.1. Influence of Nutrition on Growth and Development
2.2. Nutritional Requirements in the Different Periods of Childhood
2.3. Nutritional Assessment in Children
2.4. Physical Activity Evaluation and Recommendations
2.5. Nutrition During Pregnancy and its Impact on the Newborn
2.6. Current Trends in the Premature Newborn Nutrition
2.7. Nutrition in Lactating Women and its Impact on the Infant
2.8. Nutrition of Newborns with Intrauterine Growth Delay. Implications on Metabolic Diseases
2.9. Breastfeeding

2.9.1. Human Milk as a Functional Food
2.9.2. Process of Milk Synthesis and Secretion
2.9.3. Reasons for it to be Encouraged

2.10. Human Milk Banks

2.10.1. Milk Bank Operation and Indications

2.11. Concept and Characteristics of the Formulae Used in Infant Feeding
2.12. The Move to a Diversified Diet.  Complementary Feeding During the First Year of Life
2.13. Feeding 1-3 Year Old Children
2.14. Feeding During the Stable Growth Phase. Schoolchild Nutrition
2.15. Adolescent Nutrition. Nutritional Risk Factors
2.16. Child and Adolescent Athlete Nutrition
2.17. Other Dietary Patterns for Children and Adolescents. Cultural, Social, and Religious Influences on Infant Nutrition
2.18. Prevention of Childhood Nutritional Diseases. Objectives and Guidelines

Module 3.  Artificial Nutrition in Pediatrics

3.1. Concept of Nutritional Therapy

3.1.1. Evaluation of Patients in Need of Nutritional Support
3.1.2. Indications

3.2. General Information about Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
3.3. Dietary Products Used for Sick Children or Children with Special Needs
3.4. Implementing and Monitoring Patients with Nutritional Support

3.4.1. Critical Patients
3.4.2. Patients with Neurological Pathologies

3.5. Artificial Nutrition at Home
3.6. Nutritional Supplements to Support the Conventional Diet
3.7. Probiotics and Prebiotics in Child Nutrition

A unique, key and decisive specialization experience to boost your professional development”