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Understanding Obesity

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Understanding Obesity

Universidade de EdimburgoUniversidade de Edimburgo

Informações sobre o curso: In this course, we’ll look at the facts and misconceptions around obesity and discuss key physiological and psychological concepts around the brain’s control of appetite and body weight. We’ll consider the biological and environmental pressures that make it easy to gain weight (and hard to lose it!). Most importantly, we'll give you the opportunity to reflect on your own knowledge and assumptions around the subject. We deliver course materials as a mixture of videos, audio-only MOOCcasts, and a selection of short readings. There are short weekly quizzes, a peer-reviewed exercise, and discussion activities on the forum. These will help you prepare for the final project. In it, you are invited to demonstrate your evidence-informed understanding and express how you'll develop it beyond the course. The course features Citizen Science projects. We'll collect data from you (anonymously, of course) and use it to drive participant-led discussions of controversial ideas. In this way, we hope to explore ideas around diet and obesity. These projects also give a taste of how scientific evidence is collected and interpreted by scientists, and give some indication how much there still is to discover and understand.

Para quem é direcionado este curso: This course is for anyone who is interested in the complexities of appetite and obesity.


Desenvolvido por:  Universidade de EdimburgoUniversidade de Edimburgo
Universidade de EdimburgoUniversidade de Edimburgo

  • Dr John Menzies

    Ministrado por:  Dr John Menzies

    University of Edinburgh
NívelBeginner
Compromisso4 weeks of study, 1-2 hours per week
Idioma
English
Como ser aprovadoSeja aprovado em todas as tarefas para concluir o curso.
Classificação do usuário
4.5 estrelas
Classificação média do usuário 4.5Veja o que os aprendizes disseram
Programa
SEMANA 1
Week 1: What we know, and how we know it.
This week we'll discuss what we know about diet, appetite and obesity. But, and perhaps more importantly, we'll point out the gaps in our knowledge.
4 vídeos, 3 leituras
  1. Leyendo: About the course
  2. Vídeo: Rules of engagement
  3. Vídeo: Why is obesity a problem?
  4. Vídeo: What do we know about appetite and obesity? Part 1
  5. Vídeo: What do we know about appetite and obesity? Part 2
  6. Leyendo: MOOCcast 1.1: The Scientific Method
  7. Leyendo: MOOCcast 1.2: Science, evidence and the media
Nota atribuída: Week 1 quiz
SEMANA 2
Physiology and Stress
This week we discuss some aspects of the physiology of obesity and learn how so-called "food addiction", stress and early-life experience can affect our eating choices. Included is an optional assignment where you can explore barriers to healthy eating. This assignment is not graded but does use the same interface as the Week 4 assessment. As such, you may find it useful to use it as practice for the "real thing".
2 vídeos, 3 leituras
  1. Vídeo: The physiology of appetite
  2. Leyendo: MOOCcast 2.1: Is food an addictive substance?
  3. Leyendo: MOOCcast 2.2: Is eating a behavioural addiction?
  4. Vídeo: Early-life experience
  5. Leyendo: MOOCcast 2.3: Stress, eating and dieting
  6. Revisión por el compañero: Reflecting on Barriers to Healthier Eating
Nota atribuída: Week 2 quiz
SEMANA 3
Psychology and Behaviour
This week we discuss some aspects of the psychology of appetite control and learn how portion sizes and food insecurity might affect our behaviours.
2 vídeos, 2 leituras
  1. Vídeo: The psychology of appetite
  2. Leyendo: MOOCcast 3.1: Portion size and meal size
  3. Vídeo: Economic approaches to obesity
  4. Leyendo: MOOCcast 3.2: Food insecurity
Nota atribuída: Week 3 quiz
SEMANA 4
Consolidation and Discussion
This week online material will be posted ad hoc as we consolidate and discuss what we've already learned. This week's main tasks are a quiz on the scientific method and the peer-reviewed assignment. Please note you can attempt the Week 4 quiz only once.
    Nota atribuída: Week 4 quiz
    Nota atribuída: Making a Plan of Action

    Perguntas frequentes
    Como funciona
    Trabajo del curso
    Trabajo del curso

    Cada curso es como un libro de texto interactivo, con videos pregrabados, cuestionarios y proyectos.

    Ayuda de tus compañeros
    Ayuda de tus compañeros

    Conéctate con miles de estudiantes y debate ideas y materiales del curso, y obtén ayuda para dominar los conceptos.

    Certificados
    Certificados

    Obtén reconocimiento oficial por tu trabajo y comparte tu éxito con amigos, compañeros y empleadores.

    Desenvolvedores
    Universidade de EdimburgoUniversidade de Edimburgo
    Influencing the world since 1583, The University of Edinburgh is consistently ranked as one of the world's top 50 universities. Today, we are an established and global leader in online learning, providing degree-level education to 3,000 online students in addition to 36,000 students on-campus. We also offer a wide range of free online courses in a variety of subjects. To find out more about studying for one of our online degrees, search for ‘Edinburgh online’ or visit www.ed.ac.uk
    Classificações e avaliações
    Avaliado em 4.5 de 5 decorrente de 105 avaliações
    Ibrahim M. faraj

    Its was been a great journey in the healthy life style, healthy cooking, learner too much great information in the nutritional value and habit. hop the great for instructor and for universety in feature same topic courses ..

    WOLFF Fee

    Interesting.

    Afonso Júlio

    Great experience

    This was great experience, with thouthful insight’s.

    Looking forward for STEP 2 - Episode 2, “UNDERSTANDING OBESITY_Univ Edinburgh”…

    AA

    thanks for an excellent course



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