Nutrition & Health Coaching

As a Nutrition & Health Coach, you can work with clients and groups to provide personalised health and nutrition advice, assessments, and customised food, nutrition and health programs and education. You can offer guidance on food choices, kilojoules/calories, macronutrient ratios and targets, micronutrient needs, dietary quality, and meal and recipe planning and hydration to optimise health and reduce nutritional and lifestyle risk factors for chronic disease. You can also help clients with guidance on physical activity, sleep patterns, stress management, mindset, and body composition goals such as fat loss or muscle gain. Note: This course is not designed to attempt to diagnose, manage or treat medical conditions. You can work with clients who may have diagnosable conditions, but their diagnosis and treatment should always be monitored by a health or medical professional.

Sports & Exercise Nutrition

If you are already a qualified Personal Trainer (Certificate IV in Fitness), have a fitness, nutrition or health qualification, or complete our Advanced Certificate of Nutrition & Health Coaching, you will be eligible to join the International Institute for Complementary Therapists (IICT) upon completion of our Certificate of Sports & Exercise Nutrition. This lets you take out professional indemnity insurance as a Sports & Exercise Nutritionist. As a Sports & Exercise Nutritionist, you can provide advice on nutrient intake, hydration, meal timing, and the appropriate use of supplements. You can also provide advice on weight management, fat loss, muscle development, endurance, and health for optimal exercise performance, training and recovery.

Beck Health Course	IICT Modality	Prerequisites
Advanced Certificate of Nutrition & Health Coaching (150 hours)	Health & Nutrition Coaching	None
Certificate of Sports & Exercise Nutrition (50 hours)	Sports & Exercise Nutritionist	Must already hold a Certificate IV in Fitness; OR complete our Advanced Certificate of Nutrition & Health Coaching OR; Hold another related health, fitness or nutrition qualification (contact us to check suitability).

Note: All membership and professional indemnity insurance options are optional. They are valuable professional opportunity if you plan to work with clients to provide nutritional coaching or nutritional consulting services.

If you want to become a professional nutritionist in Australia, your best option is a degree….

Choosing the right nutrition course or health coaching course can be confusing. Here’s our super-abbreviated guide to choosing the best nutrition course for your needs, time commitment and budget.

1. Beck Health & Nutrition courses offer high-quality, flexible education and training in nutrition and health coaching. They are not designed to take the place of a degree in nutrition and / or dietetics. Our nutrition courses are designed to be flexible and user-friendly, so you can choose to undertake one or more nutrition course in your own time.
2. There are heaps of awesome nutrition degrees offered at Australian Universities – if you have the time and budget to commit, this is where we recommend that you study (for more information about choosing the right university nutrition course read our guide here).
3. Anyone can call themselves a nutritionist or health coach (without completing any study at all – we don’t recommend this).
4. There are many nutrition course and health coach course providers in Australia and overseas that are very expensive, but offer no professional or competitive advantage over our high-quality short courses. If you want to study a comprehensive nutrition course choose a degree in nutrition from an Australian university.
5. Completing Beck Health & Nutrition’s Advanced Certificate of Nutrition & Health (Health & Nutrition Coaching) gives you the option to gain professional membership and insurance for Health & Nutrition Coaching via the IICT To find out more about studying or working as a health coach, read our guide here

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Accreditation of Nutrition Courses

To find out more about our nutrition courses, please click on the “nutrition courses” link at the top of the page or visit our homepage at www.beckhealth.com.au

Disclaimer: this information is, to the best of our knowledge, accurate and current and is provided in good faith in order to assist people considering undertaking a course of study in nutrition, health or wellness coaching.  Beck Health & Nutrition will not be held liable for any errors or omissions contained. Note: The IICT is an independent, third-party membership and insurance body. Beck Health & Nutrition does not receive payment or incentives for referrals to the IICT. We simply offer this option as a valuable opportunity for our learners who wish to access insurance and professional recognition and membership as a Health & Nutrition Coach or Sports & Exercise Nutritionist (Terms & conditions).