Nutrition and Weight Control Course

From science to diet plan

11th Edition

November 6th, 2025

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3h
WORKSHOP

24h
DURATION

Online
FORMAT

Nutrition and Weight Control Course

From science to diet plan

Deviations by default or from the excess of body weight are risk factors and often result in physical and/or psychosocial illness.

The good news is that diet, in all its scientific, semantic, know-how and taste extension, is an effective and safe determinant for weight and health balance. In Aesop’s fable as well as in the strength of the facts that Nutrition Sciences and others have gathered to date, a set of knowledge and skills is interpreted and transforms, when adapted and served the context and purposes of people. Metamorphosis – meaning weight management and control – through the prescription of food plans by nutritionists, contributes decisively to a healthy and fuller life.

Throughout this course, tips will be presented to convey about nutritional plans [diets] and strategies to improve adherence and compliance, which, in fact, will play a decisive role in the success or failure of the nutritional intervention.

In this way, it is intended to optimize the nutritionist’s performance to prescribe food plans for weight management and control, through the development of technical-scientific knowledge and qualifications framed in the object of the course.

Additionally, other health professionals might benefit to the extent that the content of this course will allow them to work in harmony with nutritionists, while contributing to the management of the health process.

Welcome to Academia Clínicas Espregueira!

OBJECTIVES

  To develop food plans for weight control in a safely and effective manner;
  Increase the acuity in the ability to estimate energy and nutritional needs;
  To broaden the “nutriteca” of healthy options that correspond and adapt to various energy and nutritional requirements;
  To develop capacities and provide tools to periodise nutritional and food intake;
  Expand knowledge regarding the spectrum of diets and specifics of age groups/life cycle stages, whilst adapting food prescriptions;
  Exercise systematically and in an organised manner the ability to plan weekly food plans properly adjusted to the preferences, goals and lifestyle of each individual.

Description

Description

PROGRAM

6 NOVEMBER 2025

8:00pm | 10:00pm Ana Goios

Basic concepts of nutrition, energy balance and body composition

13 NOVEMBER 2025

8:00pm | 10:00pm Ana Goios

Evaluation of body composition and estimations of energy and nutritional needs.

20 NOVEMBER 2025

19.00 | 20.30 Nuno Casanova

Why is it so difficult to lose weight?
Metabolic adaptations that occur during weight loss.

8:30pm | 10:00pm Catarina Nunes

Why is it so difficult to lose weight?
Behavioral adaptations that occur during weight loss.

27 NOVEMBER 2025

8:00pm | 10:00pm

Weight loss: what is the best approach in light of scientific evidence?
Low-Carb vs. Low-Fat diets; High protein diets.

4 DECEMBER 2025

8:00pm | 10:00pm Rachel Freire

Weight loss: what is the best approach in light of scientific evidence?
FAD Diets [Intermittent fasting, ketogenic diet, Paleo diet, etc].

11 DECEMBER 2025

8:00pm | 10:00pm

Pharmacological intervention and supplementation.

18 DECEMBER 2025

8:00pm | 10:00pm Osvaldo Santos

Weight control and eating behavior.

Psychology and psychotherapy: the “vision”/approach of the psychologist.

8 JANUARY 2026

20.00 | 21.30 Maria Travassos

Weight control and eating behavior.
Case studies: the nutritionist's approach

15 JANUARY 2026

8:00pm | 10:00pm

The impact of sleep on weight control: what do we know?

22 JANUARY 2026

8:00pm | 10:00pm Inês Tomada

Diet therapy/nutritional intervention: practical cases.
The overweight child.

29 JANUARY 2026

8:00pm | 9:00pm José Camolas

Obese adult with type II diabetes

9:00pm | 10:00pm Ana Goios

Sedentary adult

5 FEBRUARY 2026

8:00pm | 10:00pm Ana Goios

Case based learning: Role play class (presentation of case studies by the students with discussion of the food plans developed)

WORKSHOP - FEBRUARY 7, 2026

10.00 | 13.00 Ana Goios

From the spreadsheet to the plate: nutritional strategies for weight control.

Faculty

ANA GOIOS

SCIENTIFIC-PEDAGOGICAL COORDINATOR AND LECTURER

Catarina Nunes

Inês Tomada

José Camolas

Maria Travassos

Nuno Casanova

Osvaldo Santos

Rachel Freire

FAQ's

Starts November 6, 2025.

Registration fees:
1st price until 06/09/2025 - 292€
2nd price until 06/10/2025 - 365€
3rd price after 06/10/2025 - 435€

Phased payment 2x without interest:
70% - Upon registration
30% - After 30 days

Recorded lessons, made available after live broadcast (exclusively online or on television), will no longer be accessible 31 days after the last live broadcast session of the course.

Nutritionists, physicians, other health professionals, and students in health courses.

The final classification in the course will result from the quantitative classification obtained by the final exam. The assessment comprises the answers to a 20-question multiple-choice exam. Each correct answer contributes 1 point to the final classification. The exam will be held at the end of the course.

The final evaluation of each course is expressed through a classification on a numerical scale from 0 to 20 points, with approval being considered as obtaining a minimum of 10 points.

The final classification of the course can be accompanied by a qualitative mention, expressed on the following scale: Sufficient (10 to 13), Good (14 and 15), Very Good (16 and 17) and Excellent (18 to 20).

According to the Portuguese legislation (DL 42/2005 of 22 February), grades below 10, on a scale from 0 to 20, imply failure.

At the end of the course, an evaluation instrument will be applied to measure the participants’ satisfaction with the training process and the conditions for carrying out the course, aiming at possible improvement actions.

At the end of the course, a Professional Training Certificate will be issued, in accordance with current legislation (Ordinance No. 474/2010 of 8 July), to all participants who successfully complete the vocational training. This certificate, as well as a diploma, will be made available in digital format in the participant’s area, on the EMSaúde website, within a maximum period of 30 working days, after the end date of the course. If the student does not succeed, a Certificate of Attendance in Vocational Training will be issued.

292,00 €

Registration fees:

1st price until 06/09/2025 - 292€
2nd price until 06/10/2025 - 365€
3rd price after 06/10/2025 - 435€

WHAT DOES THIS COURSE INCLUDE?

  24h of training - 100% Online + 3h Workshop
  Recorded lessons, made available after live broadcast (exclusively online or on television), will no longer be accessible 31 days after the last live session broadcast of the course
  Includes an E-book of recipes
  Vocational Training Certificate* or Vocational Training Attendance Certificate
  * In addition, the right to the Diploma issued by a FIFA, ISAKOS, ESSKA and ICRS accredited centre.

292,00 €

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