Healthy Meal Standard Course

Around the world, we find ourselves facing global epidemics of obesity, type 2 diabetes and other predominantly diet-related diseases. In EU, there are more than 650M people that are obese, more than 500M people have diabetes and 50% of the population struggle with heart disease. All of these people want and need to eat according to their nutritional needs. To address these public health crises, we are showing you the opportunity on how to address these issues in your tourist facility. In this course, learners will be given the information and practical skills they need to begin optimizing nutrition in their facility.

Aims

The aim of this course is to:

• Give basic knowledge about nutrition for the people working in the tourism industry

• Learn about the growing market of special dietary needs and how it will change the tourism in the following years

• Learn about special dietary needs in different categories: how to approach, access the risk and answer the demand

• Understand the Healthy Meal Standard implementation and certification process: how it can help your tourism facility and gain visibility, credibility and at the end globally accepted certificate with healthy stars

This course is still in production. You may sign up and get updates when this course has been uploaded.

Learning Outcomes

• Through this course; you will acquire knowledge about:
  The basics of healthy nutrition in the tourism sector

• Marketing segment of people that need special dietary needs and the tourism sector

• Nutrition for special dietary needs for people with diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, gastritis, osteoporosis, gluten-free and low gluten nutrition, low lactose, histamine, nuts and egg allergy nutrition, vegans, vegetarians, children and women that are pregnant or breastfeeding

• Healthy Meal Standard Basics and Implementation and Certification process

Skills you will gain:

• Critical thinking

• Evaluating nutritional labels

• Assessing solutions for people with special dietary needs

• Have an insight on how to collaborate with cross-functional teams

After this course, you will be able to:

• Understand the difference between healthy nutrition and nutrition for special dietary needs

• Distinguish the different nutritional needs of the customer and align your tourism strategy in the future accordingly

• Understand how to approach people with special nutritional needs and understand the risk

• Understand the process of Healthy Meal Standard and how it can help and excel your facility