06 Nutrition and relevant Health Apps (Course6-EN)

Units

6.1 Teaching Session 6.3 Self-learning supported by...
6.2 Experiential training session

Objectives

  • To comprehend in depth the theory and implement it on relevant nutrition apps.
  • To comprehend in depth the usefulness of SMART goals and to be familiar with their utilization.
  • To comprehend, through real-life scenarios and situations, how nutrition apps may enable following healthier dietary habits and may help individuals’ health in general.

Competences

  • To equip participants with the skills required to leverage nutrition apps for achieving nutrition-related goals.
  • To enhance the skills needed to make informed decisions about app selection, utilization, and integration into participants’ everyday-nutrition, if they wish so.

Duration:  1 hour

Resources for 6.2

ETA 6.2 Experiential Training session (online)
ETA 6.2 Experiential Training Session (pdf)

6.2.1 Specific Examples of Nutrition Apps

Duration: 30  minutes

The trainer will display 2-3 app examples from different types of nutrition apps.

See below the following aspects of this session:

  • Mention app’s name and icon.
  • Identify and categorize app’s type.
  • Present app’s main features and sections. 
  • Show screenshots directing learners how to use the app for the first time and presenting app’s functionalities.

Resources:

  • ETA - 6 Experiential Training session (6.2), Unit 6.2.1

6.2.2 Real Life Integrations –Implementation of SMART goals

Duration: 30  minutes

The trainer will provide to learners’ several real-life scenarios and situations of how nutrition apps may enable following healthier dietary habits and may help individuals’ health in general.

Components of the real-life integrations’ session can be found below:

  • Presentation of different real-life scenarios where nutrition apps could be beneficial, (e.g., finding new recipes for healthy meals and snacks, monitoring dietary intake of a specific nutrient in case of a medical condition - such as hypertension and salt, monitoring calorie intake in case of an attempt to lose body weight etc.).
  • Implementation of SMART goals in nutrition apps: participants will set their own SMART goals related to nutrition they will then brainstorm and discuss how they would integrate these goals in a nutrition app.

Resources:

  • ETA - 6 Experiential Training session (6.2), Unit 6.2.2