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People with very diverse experience and goals enroll in our courses. We welcome complete beginners, individuals who want to better navigate their own nutrition and their family’s diet, as well as professionals from related fields. Their starting knowledge and motivations for study vary, but they share a common interest in understanding nutrition more deeply.
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Although some courses are also aimed at professional application, most students enroll primarily for personal reasons. Our data show that approximately 90% of learners study primarily for their own needs.
Reasons vary. Some have been interested in nutrition for a long time and want to organize the information they have. Others are looking for a firmer foundation that will enable them to better evaluate the recommendations they encounter on the internet, in the media, or in everyday life.
Common motivations include, for example, the effort to better understand one's own diet, adjust eating habits with the aim of supporting one's health, navigate the often conflicting volume of information, understand the relationships among the individual components of the diet, gain greater confidence when choosing foods or learn to assess nutrition in a broader context.
For many students, then, the main goal is not a new profession, but a better grasp of an area that is part of their everyday lives.
Personal motivation often extends beyond the student's own needs. We deal with nutrition when shopping, cooking, and planning meals for other members of the household, so many students expect to use the knowledge they gain within their families as well.
This typically concerns, for example, children's diets, the differing needs of individual household members, or the effort to put together a meal plan with a clearer overview of its overall composition.
Most students arrive without formal training and start practically from the basics. Others have already read many books, follow professional sources, or have been actively interested in nutrition for several years.
People therefore enter our courses with very different levels of prior knowledge.
A complete beginner gradually builds a professional foundation during the studies. Someone who already has some knowledge can organize it better, supplement it, and place it in a broader context.
Prior education in nutrition is therefore not a prerequisite for starting the studies.
Another group consists of people who already work in fields where they encounter the topic of nutrition, including:
Their motivation tends to be to supplement or systematize their knowledge, expand their existing expertise, or focus more deeply on a specific area of nutrition.
Mgr. Martin Jelínek
Founder of NutriCourses, lecturer and author of an educational system in the field of nutrition. He has been systematically engaged in nutrition education since 1999. He is the author of the educational application ZOF and professional publications focused on nutrition and a healthy lifestyle.
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Mgr. Věra Stádníková
Courses of Martin Jelínek are not just about food, but holistic approach to the body, mind, and our healthy lifestyle. Course contains also Eastern concept of nutrition from the perspective of Ayurveda and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Martin Jelínek practically connects them with our Western way of life. Need of harmony between food and our whole life is emphasized, so it is pleasant and good for living. It goes from the bottom of my heart! Volume of information exceeded my expectation, in spite of that I felt comfortably during study. I really appreciate support of Martin Jelínek during the study and finishing it.
Tomáš Křivánek
I am happy that I could study course of Martin Jelínek. I gained important information. I put many of his advice into reality in my personal life and I am going to use them in my career as well. Thank you so much.
Bc. Andrea Šoltisová
When I was in the hospital with my third high-risk pregnancy, I shared my room with mothers scheduled for cesarean sections. Most of them had the reason "oversized baby" for the cesarean, as they had gestational diabetes and somehow didn't manage it properly... I wondered if they didn't address it due to poor education or by choice. I myself had diabetes with each of my pregnancies, and I must say that I received completely different dietary information with the first two pregnancies. In the third pregnancy, I decided to manage the diet on my own and must say I had the best-controlled diabetes. I decided to help other women in managing gestational diabetes because I believe it has an increasing tendency in the population, given the lifestyle we lead. In the future, I would like to delve deeper into prediabetes, which I was diagnosed with, and subsequently type 2 diabetes. So as not to "shoot from the hip" (just from my experience and information gained during my medical studies), I enrolled in a Diabetes Nutrition Guide course. I am really thrilled with the course; not only did it confirm the correctness of my knowledge, but it unexpectedly broadened my horizons regarding nutrition in all dietary directions. I really like the comprehensive view on diabetes and solving the diet in all possible eating styles. There's something for everyone. I enjoyed creating meal plans in the ZOF application the most, some of which were quite challenging. The course can be managed even with three small children :-) The course "How to Get Rid of Sweet Addiction" is also very interesting, especially regarding mindset and brain settings. Thank you very much for these courses, and I will certainly not stop at just these two. After the holidays, I plan to take a low-carb diet course because a lower carbohydrate intake suits me, and I want to know as much as possible about it, although much was already covered in the Diabetes Nutrition Guide course. I'm also interested in meditation and children's nutrition. Thank you once again for these courses, and I look forward to more :-).