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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Understanding Obesity by The University of Edinburgh

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About the Course

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....

Top reviews

AE

Mar 24, 2023

This course was critical in my comprehension of true nutrition, diet, and obesity. It helped to dispel my misconceptions about food, nutrition, and obesity in general.

Thank You.

DA

Apr 26, 2021

Enjoyed every minute of this learning experience. Appreciate the layout of the course, content, relevance to my work, and the global needs of the current day! Thank you.

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By Diane D

Aug 15, 2022

It was a fanitastic ground-level course in understanding some of the psychology related to obesity. I enjoyed it!

By Carole M

Mar 12, 2024

Great course, well presented with some thought provoking subjects. Recommended for anyone interested in Nutrition

By Dr. M U

Sep 29, 2023

It is a very educational course in which you can learn a lot about the reasons of increasing rates of obesity.

By Rosa M R T

Oct 19, 2022

Excellent points of views are shared in this course which helps you view Obesity from other points of view.

By Nutri-a T b D F P C

Oct 5, 2023

me gustó mucho y aprendí bastante, ahora veo la obesidad de manera diferente lo cual enriquece mi profesión

By Borislav I

Aug 3, 2021

Fantastic course. A little short but the most important information is inside. Highly recommend it.

By OSCAR R O

May 9, 2023

I like this course because i feel that now i have more aware. i love the variety courses they offer

By Leah S

Dec 20, 2022

great class like were i could take the quiz 3 times to get better and know the information better

By Maria M

Mar 1, 2022

Excelente! Recomendo vivamente pelo insight que fornece num tema tão complexo e escorregadio. AM

By malebogo m R

Dec 6, 2019

THIS WAS VERY INFORMATIVE AND IT WILL HELP ME DEAL WITH OBESITY WHICH IS A PROBLEM TO MANY.

By Deleted A

Aug 26, 2020

Es un curso rápido y explicado de una forma tan sencilla que logras entender todo muy bien.

By Farida A

Sep 22, 2018

I loved how they talk about obesity from global view and epidemic, not just as individuals.

By Ang S

Aug 8, 2022

A lot of valuable information. I enjoyed the format and the speakers professionalism.

By vaishali s

Dec 26, 2017

Helped me a lot in understanding not just physiological but psychological aspects too.

By Shahriar A

Jan 4, 2018

very much informative , engaging but not enough money to get paid for the certificate

By Qusai B

Jan 11, 2021

Excellent course with great assignments and quizzes to embed knowledge.

Very helpful.

By Helen R G

Sep 13, 2022

Interesting course, if you want to try to understand why there is so much obesity.

By chevroletson

Jan 24, 2021

Great but we could learn more about hormonal genetical obesity problems thank you

By AS C

Sep 10, 2020

Very informative, only regret is that there weren't any current studies included.

By Maureen W

May 5, 2018

Excellent. The order of content, the stacking of logic, the professor. Thank you!

By Saket P

Apr 27, 2023

Thank you for this oppertunity

This was a great Experience with full of knowledge

By Happiness G B s

Oct 13, 2022

very interesting

Scientific

Breaks the myths about obesity and Honest claims

By Belinda M

Sep 3, 2021

Fantastic Course. I really enjoyed it. felt it was easy to follow and complete

By Luisa F D B

Aug 21, 2020

I think this course was really helpful to understand the complexity of obesity

By Roberto D A Y

Jul 11, 2023

excelente información. Es una buena estructura para aprender sobre obesidad.