Discover how food and beverages are converted into energy with this free online macronutrient metabolism course. This free online Human Nutrition course will give you a better understanding of macronutrient metabolism. Human metabolism is a life-sustaining chemical process that is essential for bodies to grow, maintain their structure, and respond to the environment. With this course, you will learn how you obtain energy from three classes of fuel molecules as well as better understand the function and importance of carbohydrates, lipids, and proteins.
| Course Type | Online Learning |
| Course Qualification | CPD Certificate |
| Course Duration | 1.5-3 hours |
| Course Fee | Free |
| Entry Requirements | Like all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary. At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives. Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone. |
| Career Path | What You Will Learn In This Free Course • Discuss the basics of metabolism and cofactors required by enzymes • Explain the various carbohydrate pathways including glycogenesis, glycogenolysis, gluconeogenesis, glycolysis, transition reaction, citric acid cycle and the electron transport chain • Discuss the lipid metabolism pathways, lipolysis, fatty acid oxidation, fatty acid synthesis and ketone body synthesis • Outline the various protein metabolism pathways, transamination, deamination, gluconeogenesis and protein degradation |
| Course Code | 1398 |

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