Edin - Understanding Obesity
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Understanding Obesity at Coursera Overview
Duration | 6 hours |
Start from | Start Now |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Understanding Obesity at Coursera Highlights
- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Flexible deadlines Reset deadlines in accordance to your schedule.
- Beginner Level
- Approx. 6 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish, Romanian
Understanding Obesity at Coursera Course details
- 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.
Understanding Obesity at Coursera Curriculum
Week 1: What we know, and how we know it.
Rules of engagement
Why is obesity a problem?
What do we know about appetite and obesity? Part 1
What do we know about appetite and obesity? Part 2
About the course
MOOCcast 1.1: The Scientific Method
MOOCcast 1.2: Science, evidence and the media
Week 1 quiz
Physiology and Stress
The physiology of appetite
Early-life experience
MOOCcast 2.1: Is food an addictive substance?
MOOCcast 2.2: Is eating a behavioural addiction?
MOOCcast 2.3: Stress, eating and dieting
Week 2 quiz
Psychology and Behaviour
The psychology of appetite
Economic approaches to obesity
MOOCcast 3.1: Portion size and meal size
MOOCcast 3.2: Food insecurity
Week 3 quiz
Consolidation and Discussion
Week 4 quiz
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