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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Understanding Obesity by The University of Edinburgh

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About the Course

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....

Top reviews

AE

Mar 24, 2023

This course was critical in my comprehension of true nutrition, diet, and obesity. It helped to dispel my misconceptions about food, nutrition, and obesity in general.

Thank You.

DA

Apr 26, 2021

Enjoyed every minute of this learning experience. Appreciate the layout of the course, content, relevance to my work, and the global needs of the current day! Thank you.

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By Montserrat C F

Sep 15, 2020

Great course. It has many interesting information and points of view around the culture of dieting and eating habits.

By Luisa S

May 7, 2018

This course was very helpful for me. I learn a lot and now Im implementing all the things that I learned here.

By Pucci A

Aug 16, 2017

Really interesting course. It explains the complexity of obesity and proposes some ways to treat the problem.

By A B

Aug 21, 2017

Really useful and interesting approach of the psychology and biology of obesity! Thanks a lot!

By Geraldine M

Aug 21, 2017

Excelente curso, información muy interesante.

By Jennifer B

Apr 21, 2017

Very interesting course! Thank you very much!

By Marwa A A E

Jun 21, 2020

This is the beginning and I want to continue

By Mohamed A H

Mar 7, 2021

Very good course

By Sean W

Jan 13, 2021

A Good Introduction to the field, certainly easy to absorb informative and short enough to establish the current areas of interaction in the realm.

I recommend.

By Zheng M W

Feb 28, 2022

it is a good course, though many of the contents have not refelcted the latest research.

By Mark

Aug 25, 2017

Covers the basics well, but a little more simplistic than I was expecting.

By Merey B

Aug 23, 2022

I am very glad for participating to this course. Because I could get more and more helpful, necessary, needful pieces of information which changed my mind absolutely about obesity. As we know, obesity has been a global problem for all countries for more than decades. So that, I understand people who have this problem immediately should work with themselves. Because it is quite possible that the result of obesity can lead to various bad things. For instance, can cause several different diseases like heart attack, high blood pressure, diabetes, and especially can cause chronic diseases. So that we need to take care of our health! One more thank you for oraganising perfect, wonderful, helpful course like this to the wise, sensible, hardworking students like me!

By Aamna A

Sep 14, 2021

It is very informative about the health problems caused by unhealthy eating and explains in an understandable manner. By the end of this course, you are guaranteed to have the right concepts of obesity and a healthy life in your head. It is also very easy to understand, anyone above the age of 14 could do this course! This is definitely a must-learn!

By Ayub N K

Aug 27, 2021

This course is very rich in content and the analysis on obesity is quite deep. I learned a lot from this course and got many new insight on obesity from many experts during this course. It's worth to spend some time to take this course. Special thanks to professor John Menzies.

By Lucas B

Mar 1, 2023

Fue el primer curso que realice y me sorprendió gratamente el nivel y la calidad del contenido

Sin dudas , una gran experiencia que aporto una mirada completamente diferente a lo que uno entiende por obesidad y sus orígenes y sus complicaciones

By Candice S

Mar 6, 2023

I learned a lot about the psychology of obesity and weight loss, as well as how our parents and caregivers can have an impact on our relationship with food. This is a great beginner class with lots of very good information.

By LEMONIA O

Jul 10, 2022

A real eye-opener. I had different views on the matter. It certainly cleared up the difficulty we all-even they the scientists-have on grasping the concept and dealing with obesity as a social phenomenon.

By Miguel A P

Apr 16, 2022

The course opens the door to a better understanding of obesity, through a simple but evidence-based explanation. It is highly recommended for anyone wishing to learn about obesity without bias.

By Arinze E

Mar 25, 2023

This course was critical in my comprehension of true nutrition, diet, and obesity. It helped to dispel my misconceptions about food, nutrition, and obesity in general.

Thank You.

By Рогова С И

Jan 23, 2024

the course is good. the information is presented in an accessible and understandable way. I recommend that you learn a lot of new things and consolidate what you knew

By Raquel C M

Aug 31, 2023

Gostei bastante do curso pois trás uma visão geral sobre a complexidade da obesidade. Gostei dos professores e da didática em suas explicações.

By ANUSIKHA D 0

Sep 19, 2023

after doing this I am able to decide about obesity solutions. also peer's opinion helped a lot while doing my peer graded assignment.

By Angel S

Jan 10, 2024

Podria decir que es uno de los cursos mas interesantes que he tomado, altamente recomendable, es mas necesario en la vida diaria.

By Anna R D

Jan 6, 2023

Corso molto interessante, le attività ti permettono Di mettere davvero in pratica le conoscenze acquisite!!! Consigliato👍🏻👍🏻

By Lisa G

Jun 13, 2021

Fantastic! Well laid out and insightful. Can't wait for another Level or Specialization to be added for this course.