About this course: The New Nordic Diet is a new food culture developed in 2009-13 with key emphasis on gastronomy, health, and environment. Major research in its effect on acceptability, behaviour and learning skills, and disease prevention have been conducted by the OPUS centre at the University of Copenhagen and the people behind the award-winning restaurant Noma in Copenhagen. This course will give the participants the opportunity to experience a healthy and palatable new food and eating concept diet “The New Nordic Diet” and an understanding of how food and diets can affect mental and physical health and ensure the foundation for a healthier life style for future generations with a regional based diet and food culture. In Denmark “the Nordic cuisine”, has expanded from food eaten at the award-winning Copenhagen restaurant Noma to home-made dishes of local ingredients of whole-grain rye bread, root vegetables, berries, fresh fish and seaweed. This course is also part of the EIT Health Programme

Created by: University of Copenhagen

Taught by: Dr Arne Astrup, MD, DMSc., Professor, Head of Department
Department of Nutrition, Exercise and Sports

Commitment	4-5 hours/week
Language	English
How To Pass	Pass all graded assignments to complete the course.
User Ratings	4.4 stars Average User Rating 4.4See what learners said

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Developing a New Meal System

In this first module you will be introduced to The New Nordic Diet project. You will hear about the background for the project, the definition of the signatures and principles behind which are considered to be fundamental of this new meal system. The New Nordi...

4 videos

Graded: Introduction to the New Nordic Diet

WEEK 2

Development of the New Nordic Diet

3 videos

Graded: Development of the New Nordic Diet

WEEK 3

The OPUS School Meal Study

In this module we will investigate how the OPUS School Meal Study was designed and how the investigators examined the effect of the New Nordic Diet school meals on the well-being, development academic performance, body composition as well as their risk of deve...

7 videos

Graded: The OPUS School Meal Study

WEEK 4

The OPUS Supermarket Intervention

In this module, we'll be looking at the effect of New Nordic Diet on adults. We will study the effect of eating the New Nordic Diet (NND) and an Average Danish Diet (ADD), respectively, in terms of body weight, body composition (fat) and risk factors for cardi...

6 videos

Graded: The OPUS Supermarket Intervention

WEEK 5

Investigate the New Nordic Diet – from Food to Health

In this last module's lectures we will concentrate on the health of the New Nordic Diet, focus on the effects published so far from four different studies and on the potential factors and foods affecting the outcomes.

4 videos

Graded: Investigate the New Nordic Diet – from Food to Health

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The University of Copenhagen is the oldest University in Denmark - founded in 1479, and with over 38,000 students and more than 9,000 employees. The purpose of the University is to conduct research and provide education to the highest academic level. Based in Denmark's capital city it is one of the top research institutions in Europe.

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Rated 4.4 out of 5 of 183 ratings

This was a wonderful introduction to the New Nordic Diet and I loved the well documented research studies.

Great, it is very useful to learn about different diet and studies. I really liked it.

In-depth introduction and understanding the background and details of the study. It will be great if able to include the updates from this research.

Great!!!

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The New Nordic Diet - from Gastronomy to Health

The New Nordic Diet - from Gastronomy to Health

The New Nordic Diet - from Gastronomy to Health