BioNatural Health Practitioner
Course Description
This Diploma program consists of 30 credits, is a 12-16 month study program in order to successfully complete the all assigned courses and study requirements for this Diploma in BioNatural Health Practitioner.
Objective: To graduate successfully with Diploma BioNatural Health Practitioner one should be able to:
• Perform and understand the business ethics that help in growth and development of planning for nutritional, lifestyle and whole body wellbeing.
• Understand the nature of responsibility and efficient performance with respect to client satisfaction and health improvement.
• Understand and discuss the perspective of plant medicine, basic nutrition mechanism based on current research journal articles.
• Discuss and explain the relationship between food, human body and environment especially how to minimize the toxic chemicals exposure from our life
• Motivate and educate others in the approach of optimum health
Opportunities: Successful Diploma holder of BioNatural Health Practitioner should be able to find employment in the following careers:
• Health Care Facilities and Nursing Home
• Sports Nutrition Clinic
• Community Centers and Health Agencies
• Natural Food and Supplement Companies
• Women, Infant and Children Program (WIC)
BNHP 100 – BioNatural Health I (4 credits/5 weeks)
This course will give an overview of diet and lifestyle that can play an important role in creating and preventing multiple health problems such as overweight and obesity, cancer, skin cancer, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, asthma, and Attention Deficit Disorder.
BNHP 101 – BioNatural Health II (4 credits/5 weeks)
This second part of the course explains and discusses depression, Alzheimer’s, disease, Parkinson’s, disease, arthritis, osteoporosis, cavities, sleep disorders and headaches, birth defects, infertility, vaccines, the ancestry factor, alternative health landmines, how to avoid and reverse disease and improve health quality.
BNHP 102 – Health, Nutrition & Disease (5 credits/6 weeks)
This course focuses on many aspects of nutrition that will deal with dieting in pregnancy, childhood, and adulatory phases, however, in this first part of the course the topics include Nutrition and the concept of balance, pregnancy, lactation, and infant feeding, fetal nutrition and disease in later life, and nutrition and childhood
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BNHP 103 – Essential Microbiology (5 credits/6 weeks)
Students should learn the basic characteristics of each group (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, protozoa) of microbe. Describe the link how does one know that a person is infected? Where and how is a person infected? What can be done if a person is infected?
BNHP 104 – Concepts of Conventional & Alternative Prescriptions (3 credits/4 weeks)
This course is focused on the evidence that prescription drugs can deplete the body of essential vitamins and minerals. Discuss and explain hundreds of safe, natural, prescription- free remedies to restore and maintain health. How to change the unnecessary medication mindset and avoid prescription drug abuse. Understand drug interaction with food, drink, and supplements and how drugs interact with other drugs.
BNHP 105 – Understanding Prebiotics, Probiotics & Postbiotics (4 credits/5 weeks):
Introduce and explain the nature and dietary source of prebiotics (fruits, vegetables) fructooligosaccharides, fructan, and the functions and effects of prebiotics. Probiotics and postbiotics’s impact on the digestive tract is based on food intake and digestion especially microflora of the GI tract such as bacteria (within the biosystem) gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria.
Business Skill & Communication is not included in the diploma program (Short Course 5 weeks Separate and optional for Students with a Separate Tuition Fee of $200)
This course guides and covers the basic concept of how to start a business and e all the necessary issues required for a Natural Health Consultant such as schools, accreditation, credentials, legal issues, malpractice insurance, forms, assessment systems, marketing, compliance, appointment structuring, and other related issues.
Note: Each online course with its assigned period has assignments, three exams, and a paper per course for students to write.
BNHC academic committee can modify the curriculum based on science and update research on the needs background or careers of prospective students.