Pediatric Nutrition Advanced Module

This advanced module focuses on nutrition during infancy, childhood, and adolescence, exploring how dietary intake influences growth, development, behaviour, immunity, and long-term health outcomes.

Why This Module Matters

Nutrition during early life stages plays a critical role in physical growth, cognitive development, immune function, and the prevention of chronic disease later in life.

• •Understand how nutritional requirements differ across infancy, childhood, and adolescence.
• •Learn how feeding practices influence growth, development, and long-term health.
• •Explore the role of nutrition in supporting immune health, behaviour, and learning.

By completing this module, you’ll develop a deeper understanding of how to support optimal nutrition during the most formative years of life.

What You’ll Learn

• Growth & Development
  How nutrition supports growth, brain development, and emotional wellbeing.
• Infant & Child Feeding
  Breastfeeding, formula feeding, complementary feeding, and responsive feeding practices.
• Macronutrients & Micronutrients
  The role of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals in childhood health.
• Common Pediatric Nutrition Concerns
  Picky eating, allergies, intolerances, nutrient deficiencies, and feeding challenges.

What You’ll Do

• Analyze Feeding Practices
  Evaluate age-appropriate feeding approaches and dietary patterns.
• Assess Nutritional Intake
  Identify potential nutrient gaps and imbalances in childhood diets.
• Apply Practical Nutrition Guidance
  Translate evidence-based nutrition science into real-world advice for families.
• Support Healthy Food Relationships
  Encourage positive, balanced relationships with food from an early age.

Module Outcomes

By completing this module, you will:

Guidance Every Step of the Way

Our expert nutrition tutors provide targeted, evidence-informed guidance throughout this advanced module, helping you navigate the complexities of pediatric nutrition with confidence. You’ll receive support in understanding age-specific nutritional requirements, interpreting growth and developmental needs, and applying best-practice feeding strategies across infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Tutors help you critically evaluate real-world nutrition challenges—such as picky eating, nutrient deficiencies, allergies, and feeding difficulties—so you can translate theory into practical, appropriate advice for children and families. Our advanced modules include expert guidance from a dedicated expert tutor, a free six-month extension, and practical skills you can immediately apply to your own life or your career in nutrition.

Ready to learn how to improve the health of the children in your life? This advanced module is your next step. Join us and gain the practical skills and knowledge to do just that!