Increase your specialization in the design of diets for healthy children and offer specialized care to your patients”

This program offers the possibility to delve into and update the knowledge on Healthy Child Nutrition, with the use of the most current educational technology. A specific program for nutritionists who wish to increase their specialization in this field, increasing their knowledge and, therefore, improving the skills necessary for the development of their profession. Therefore, this program shows a global vision of nutrition in the healthy child, while focusing on the most important and innovative aspects of nutrition in the pediatric age, including from the intrauterine phase to adolescence, as well as the diseases in which nutrition plays a highly relevant role. 

Within this program they can find a teaching staff of the highest level, education by professionals closely related to pediatric clinical nutrition, outstanding in their field and leading lines of research and field work, as well as recognized specialists from reference societies and prestigious universities.

With this program students will have the most advanced didactic resources and will have the opportunity to study a teaching program that brings together the most in-depth knowledge in the field, where a group of professors of high scientific rigor and extensive international experience offers the most complete and current information on the latest advances and techniques in Clinical Nutrition in Pediatrics. 

In addition, this program has the advantage of being completely online, so that students can organize their study time, combining it with the rest of their daily obligations. A unique opportunity to study that can be done from anywhere, they only need to have a computer or mobile device with Internet connection. 

This Postgraduate diploma will help you keep up to date in order to provide comprehensive quality care to your patients”

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

• The development of cases presented by experts in Healthy Child Nutrition
• The graphic, schematic, and practical contents with which they are created provide scientific and practical information on the disciplines that are essential for professional practice
• Practical exercises where self-assessment can be used to improve learning
• An algorithm-based interactive learning system for decision-making in the clinical situations presented throughout the course
• Special emphasis on research methodologies in well-child nutrition
• 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

Maintaining a balanced diet from an early age will help prevent possible food-related diseases”

It includes, in its teaching staff, professionals belonging to the field of pediatric nutrition, who pour into this course the experience of their work, in addition to recognized specialists from reference societies and prestigious universities.

The multimedia content, developed with the latest educational technology, will provide the professional with situated and contextual learning, i.e., a simulated environment that will provide an immersive learning experience designed to prepare for real-life situations.

This program is designed around Problem-Based Learning, whereby the nutritionist must try to solve the different professional practice situations that arise throughout the program. To do so, specialists will be assisted by an innovative interactive video system created by recognized experts in nutrition of the healthy child and with great experience.

We offer you the best teaching methodology so that you can exercise as if you were facing real situations"

Improve your knowledge in Healthy Child Nutrition through this program, where you will find the best didactic material with real case studies"

The structure of the contents has been designed by a team of professionals knowledgeable about the implications of training in daily medical practice, aware of the relevance of the current relevance of nutrition training for healthy children, and committed to quality teaching through new educational technologies.

A comprehensive educational program, structured in well-developed teaching units, oriented towards efficient and swift learning that is compatible with your personal and professional life"

Module 1. New Developments in Food

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-Nutritive Compounds
1.5. New Food

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

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

1.9.1. Physical Hazards
1.9.2. Chemical Hazards
1.9.3. Microbiological Hazards

1.10. New Food Labeling 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
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 Formulas 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. Feeding in Adolescence: 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 Children's Diets
2.18. Prevention of Nutritional-Based Diseases from Infancy: Objectives and Guidelines

A unique, crucial and decisive learning experience to boost your professional development"