University of Leeds uses new dietary assessment tool for student teaching
The University of Leeds has signed an agreement with Dietary Assessment Ltd to use its new online food diary solution to support a range of undergraduate and graduate courses across the University.
The University of Leeds has signed an agreement with Dietary Assessment Ltd to use its new online food diary solution to support a range of undergraduate and graduate courses across the University.
The University will use myfood24 For Teaching, which has been developed to support classroom teaching to study the effects of diet on health. Covering a wide range of generic and branded foods and over 100 macronutrients and micronutrients such as vitamins and minerals, myfood24 For Teaching provides a quick and easy to use tool to track, monitor and analyse nutritional intake.
According to NHS Choices, obesity levels in the UK have more than trebled in the last 30 years with one in four British adults now obese. myfood24 for Teaching will help educate future generations about the impact of diet on their health and help them better understand how nutrition influences physiological, exercise, medical/healthcare and other related systems.
With support and lesson plans available, students can enter their own or others’ dietary intake and see immediate feedback. Results can be analysed in classroom sessions or subsequent personal study. Students can also use the solution for project work, to build a deeper understanding of how food and nutrient intake links to a range of health outcomes.
Professor Alan Mackie, Head of School at the School of Food Science & Nutrition at the University of Leeds commented: “We needed a tool to help teach students about the relationship between dietary intake and health. myfood24 For Teaching provides a highly practical way for students to learn about nutrition and will be used across a number of courses in nutrition and food science.”
Steve Kerridge, Managing Director of Dietary Assessment Ltd, said: “We are delighted that the University of Leeds will be using our new solution to support student education. myfood24 For Teaching has been designed to support the development of critical skills and capacity in nutrition and diet monitoring and will help teach students about the impact of diet on health.”
Further information:
Please contact Sarah Beer at Dietary Assessment Ltd for further information.
About University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is one of the largest higher education institutions in the UK, with more than 33,000 students from 147 different countries, and a member of the Russell Group of research-intensive universities.
We are a top 10 university for research and impact power in the UK, according to the 2014 Research Excellence Framework and we are The Times and The Sunday Times University of the Year 2017. Additionally, the University has been awarded a gold rating by the Government’s Teaching Excellence Framework recognising its ‘consistently outstanding’ teaching and learning provision.
About Dietary Assessment Ltd
Dietary Assessment’s vision is to help individuals, researchers, teachers and health practitioners to better track, monitor and improve diets and, ultimately, to reduce the incidence of diet-related disease across the globe. The Company’s flagship solution, myfood24, is being used by a growing number of organisations across the UK, Europe and Australasia. For more information please visit www.myfood24.org.
