11 Diet courses in Radstock

Gain the knowledge and skills to assess, manage, and support individuals with dysphagia through our comprehensive "Understanding Dysphagia and Safe Swallowing" course. Learn about its causes, assessment methods, and strategies for safe swallowing.

This course is suited to those who are involved in the planning, provision, and assistance of meals for those in care. It provides a solid insight into the basics of good nutrition as well as providing practical guidance for how to put these into practice within a care setting. Learners will also look briefly at Food Hygiene. This subject forms standard 8 in The Care Certificate.

On this course we go into far greater detail on understanding the dog’s needs, behaviour, state of mind, language, and improving your leadership skills.

This cooking class is here to expand your bean horizons. During the class, we will explore the difference in taste, texture and cost between tinned, jarred and cooked from dried beans...

Learn to make tempeh with Ben, Founder of Tempeh Meades and expert tempeh maker! You will learn: - all the important steps in making consistent, high quality soy-free tempeh - how to build your own incubator at home - how to make tempeh zero waste, with no disposable packaging - issues you might encounter in the fermentation process and how to resolve them - instructions for how to apply these techniques in making tempeh from other ingredients (such as other soya, pulses, nuts, seeds, grains) Included in the workshop: - Your block of tempeh to ferment at home (including the re-useable container) - A light & delicious tempeh lunch whilst our beans are cooking - The option to join a Whatsapp group for all your tempeh fermentation questions Not included in the workshop (optional purchase): - Additional equipment for your homemade incubator (heater, thermostat) Looking forward to seeing you there! 

Gain comprehensive knowledge and practical skills for safe and effective bowel care management with our "An Understanding of Bowel Care Techniques" course. Ideal for healthcare professionals seeking to promote patient comfort and prevent complications.

Are you struggling with the 'creeping kilograms?' Many of us find that not only has our weight increased over the last few years but the diets either no longer work or become harder and harder to commit to. This session will help you re-evaluate your approach to losing weight and give you the foundations for creating a plan that makes it easy for you to reach and maintain a weight that feels right for you. Take away a tool that will enable you to assess your eating type, whether you are a protein or carbohydrate based eater, and eating style, whether you prefer to be a grazer or three meals a day, and develop an eating plan that works for you. You will have the opportunity to: * Explore the myths and reality of losing weight * Examine self-defeating eating habits and how to replace them with energy enhancing food * Learn about one change you can make today that will not only help you lose weight but improve your ability to think and manage your emotions more constructively

This is an incredibly practical programme which has been developed to enable participants to improve their memory skills. The session focuses on specific techniques that can be used to improve retention of information. It also introduces the principles of mind-mapping By the end of this programme participants will be able to: * Explain how our brain processes and stores information * Describe the difference between short-term and long-term memory * Use specific techniques to improve retention * Explain the principles of mind mapping * Be able to use mind maps to plan and order information Each participant, no matter how poor they believe their memory to be, will by the close of the session have learnt techniques that enable them to memorise 53 items in a prescriptive order - a massive boost to their confidence in their memory skills. 1 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BRAIN'S FUNCTIONS * Introductory brain-training * How the brain works * Left / right brain function * Short-term and long-term memory * Barriers to a good memory 2 MEMORY TECHNIQUES * Tips and techniques for improving memory * Basic word association * Chaining and linking * Touchstone techniques * Use of mnemonics * Memory hooks * Remembering names 3 MAXIMISING MEMORY * Minimising barriers * The importance of sleep and diet * Supplements which may affect memory 4 MIND-MAPPING * Purpose and principles * Creating a mind map * Use of colour to delight the eye and tickle the brain * How to use the output from a map

To explore the factors which affect and influence feacal continence when supporting individuals in order to effectively manage bowel incontinence.

This course provides both underpinning knowledge of stoma care and practical techniques to deliver person centred support for someone who requires stoma care.