Food Allergies and Intolerances

The science-based certification to building personalised food allergies and intolerances nutritional plans for a client while minimising nutrient deficiency risk

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Between 1% and 10% of individuals worldwide have a food allergy
About 15% to 20% of adults may have a food intolerance
Lactose intolerance affects up to 90% of Asians
From 2013 to 2019, there was a 72% increase in hospitalisations in children due to anaphylaxis in England
The food intolerance product market is expected to grow to be $22.7 billion by 2031
Adding allergy-friendly meals to a restaurant menu may boost profits by 24%

We developed this advanced certification because of questions we get all the time at The Health Sciences Academy, like:

  • How can I tell if I have a gluten sensitivity?
  • Should I fear FODMAPs?
  • How should I look for allergens when shopping, eating out, or travelling abroad?
  • I removed dairy from my diet, am I missing out on nutrients?
  • I run a catering business, how can I develop menus for different food sensitivities?
  • How can I tell if a food is cross-contaminated by an allergen?
  • Which food sensitivity tests are valid, and which ones are bogus?
(Yes, we get questions like these even from medical doctors and university-trained dietitians and nutritionists).
Questions like these inspired us to bring practical science directly to those who want to help clients with food sensitivities in the right way.
This advanced training is our combined know-how in food allergens, sensitivities, and molecular nutrition.
If you want to help your client identify which foods they may react to, and then reduce or eliminate these from their diet without increasing nutrient deficiency risk, we believe you need to understand the science of food sensitivities and molecular nutrition.
So how do you do it?
Fortunately, that’s exactly what you’re about to learn.

Did you know that 15% to 20% of adults may have a food intolerance?

…And many of these individuals may not even know what’s contributing to their upset stomach, bloating, skin rashes, or headaches.
Other people may be unnecessarily removing entire food groups from their diet out of fear of a sensitivity.
And this too can increase risk for symptoms because they may be lacking essential vitamins and minerals!
This means that food allergies and intolerances advisors must gain a profound, science-based insight that they can use to help clients PROFICIENTLY. Particularly if they want to stand out and be leaders in this field.
This scientific insight includes being able to assess someone’s unique food sensitivities and nutritional needs.

That’s where YOU can make a difference.

When you become a certified Advanced Food Allergies and Intolerances Nutritional Advisor, you’ll know how to custom build food sensitivity plans based on proven scientific methods…
…and you’ll be able to confidently address issues and answer questions such as:
  • What is the impact that food allergies and intolerances can have on an individual?
  • Are food allergens the same worldwide or can some be more or less prevalent in certain countries?
  • Are at-home mail-in intolerance tests beneficial or a waste of money?
  • How can you read food labels and identify allergens in food products?
  • What’s an “allergy action plan” and why would a client want one?
  • How can you identify which food sensitivities a client may have?
  • Can you support a client with a food allergy by eliminating foods form their diet?
  • How can you support a client with food intolerance by going through a short-term elimination diet, then reintroducing foods back into their diet at a tolerable amount?
  • Can you assess and mitigate specific nutrient deficiency risks?
  • How can you help a client feel more confident when eating out or traveling?

74 units • 90 CPD hours • videos • workbooks

Get evaluation tools to personalise programs

  • Assessments to evaluate food reactions
  • Worksheets to plan personalised diets
  • Tracking tools to monitor progress
  • Workbooks for eliminating, reintroducing, or rotating foods
  • Step-by-step guides to implement eating plans
  • Nutrient and shopping lists
  • Food planners
  • Plus much more!
You’ll get our entire scientific framework to custom-build food allergy and intolerance plans… including client assessments with action steps, planners, trackers, food charts, and checklists to use in your practice. This way, no one will doubt your competence in this space ever again!

Discover the science behind food allergies and intolerances ​

  • Dairy
  • Lactose
  • Egg
  • Seafood
  • Peanuts
  • Tree nuts
  • Seeds
  • Soy
  • FODMAPs
  • Gluten
  • Sugar
  • Fruit and vegetables
  • Meat
  • Food additives
  • Yeast
  • Alcohol
  • Histamines

Learn to perform food reaction risk assessments

How do you know what a client may have a food intolerance to?
We’ll show you how to perform food reaction risk assessments so that you can work with your client to identify what they may be sensitive to.
This includes looking at the top food allergens and intolerances as well as some lesser known sensitivities.
And you’ll be getting all the tools you need to go through this.
This training will show you the ins, out, truth, and myths of food allergies and intolerances, so you can help your client competently and confidently.

Support a client through a food elimination and reintroduction

This includes the following practical tools:
  • Food Elimination Workbook™
  • Food Reintroduction Workbook™
  • Food Rotation Workbook™
  • Nutrient Swap guides
  • Diet Planning Workbook™
  • 3-Part Weekly Tracking Kit™

When you join, you'll also get:

  • Unlimited 24/7 access to your course lessons
  • PDF files for all key materials – you can open, save or print these at your convenience
  • Ready-to-use templates for your clients: food reaction assessments, nutrient swap guides, meal planners, food diaries, health questionnaires and legal forms
  • Interactive, automatically graded online quizzes which you need to complete before moving onto your next module
  • A fully automatically graded final exam (Score > 80% and you have passed… No retake fees!)
  • Interactive questionnaires and polls – add your voice and see what your fellow students say
  • Video training in key modules, with guided learning tasks and practical workbooks
  • Glossary, conversions guide and additional resources with examples, science or reference research
  • Instant PDF certificate upon completion signed and dated by your certification director
  • Achievement badge to display on your website, business card and marketing materials 24/7 access to the Learner Services portal
  • Ca. 500 scientific references, links to journals, and additional resources so you can expand your knowledge even further!
  • 2 BONUS units on allergy action planning and eating out
  • And none of it expires!

Who is this certification for?

This advanced training is for you if…
  • You’re a nutrition professional or coach and want to specialise in the field of food allergies and intolerances…
  • You’re a chef or culinary professional and want to perfect your menu and learn how to better evaluate the needs of your clientele…
  • You’re new to nutrition and want to learn the science of food allergies and intolerances to help yourself or others…
  • You’re a fitness professional and want to add food allergies and intolerances revenue to your current services…
  • You’re in the food and drink formulation and production area and want to improve consumer products...
  • You’re a medical professional and want to sharpen your clinical skills with specialised knowledge while earning CPD…

Learn from any device!

  • Touch-friendly
  • No installation of other software required
  • Uses HTML5 and CSS3 (no Flash)
  • Loads quickly even over slow connections
  • Automatically adjusts for mobile devices

Get certified without delay

Upon graduation you’ll have instant access to your very own Certificate in PDF format, issued in your name, signed and dated. You can save it, print it or share it with someone else.

Skills Lab™ : Instantly apply your knowledge!

Practise the techniques taught in your certification before seeing real clients through guided practical assignments, questionnaires, idea banks creation, and more. Learn how your classmates are doing and stay motivated!

See what other students had to say!

5/5
“Knowing how to detect food allergies is crucial for nutritionists. It will help me, help my future clients to advise them and come up with perfect nutrition plan.”
5/5
“I loved the whole course, I suffer from Food Intolerances and doing this course has aided me and made me understand my condition further. The course material was brilliant, informative and could access the course with ease.”

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Study this stand-alone certification at your pace with lifetime updates.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Sure, let us break it down for you:
      • The fee quoted is your total investment today, for a lifetime.
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  • Yes, of course! If you’re in the UK, you can pay in 4 quick instalments – interest-free – using Clearpay. This is how you go about it:
  • Add the Advanced Food Allergies and Intolerances Nutritional Advisor™  to the cart and select Clearpay at checkout
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      • Your purchase will be split into 4 payments every 2 weeks
  • If Clearpay is not showing as an option for you, please get in touch with us and we’ll help you out.
  • Yes, as an elective specialisation!
  • That means, in addition to the multiple core competencies and advanced clinical skills training, you have the option to choose Advanced Food Allergies and Intolerances Nutritional Advisor™ as your preferred elective.
  • Get in touch with our experts here to understand how this will give you a further competitive edge as a nutritionist.
  • Yes, you do! You get lifetime access to everything so you can revisit your certification, client materials and session handouts, Skills Lab™, research materials, etc whenever you want.
  • Yes, of course. Once you enrol, you get lifetime access to everything, so you can pick a pace that works for you or start, pause, and restart whenever you want to.
  • Many of our current students are working full-time, part-time, or juggling multiple roles, so your flexibility is always our priority. Plus you have 24/7 access to it all to learn from any device of your choice.
  • By the end of this certification you’ll be able to:
      • Recognise the impact that food allergies, intolerances and other sensitivities can have on an individual – from biological pathways to adverse symptoms experienced
      • Perform client risk assessments to identify the possibility of a food allergy, intolerance, or sensitivity – while ensuring appropriate medical referral
      • Pinpoint which allergen(s) or food(s) may be contributing to unwanted physiological reactions in a client through carrying out closely monitored food reaction assessments
      • Understand how food allergies can be medically diagnosed, and whether at-home mail-in food intolerance tests are valid or an unnecessary monetary expenditure
      • Educate your client on how to inspect food labels and how to spot allergens and possibly reactive substances in food and drink products
      • Minimise nutrient deficiency risk in a client needing to eliminate or reduce certain food(s) from their diet
      • Support a client with a medically diagnosed food allergy in safely excluding the offensive food(s) from their diet and in the acquisition of supportive behavioural skills to help manage their condition
      • Support a possibly food-intolerant client with a short-term elimination protocol followed by a reintroduction plan to identify their tolerable consumption limit of the offending food or substance
      • Help a client feel more confident when groceries shopping, eating out, or travelling
      • Assist a client in the completion of an Allergy Action Plan which caters for safe emergency protocols in the event of an unwanted food reaction outside of their home
      • Build a personalised food sensitivity, allergy, or intolerance eating plan that minimises a reaction risk, while replacing the missing nutrients from the foods that are being removed or limited
      • Track your client’s symptoms and food intake as they progress through their program with you
  • Yes, you have the option to spread your tuition fee if you are joining the Clinical Nutrition Program. 
  • In case you are joining only the Advanced Food Allergies and Intolerances Nutritional Advisor ™ certification or the launch-special success package, we usually don’t offer instalment options. 
  • However, considerations can be made on a case-by-case basis. we may be able to help you spread payments. 
  • Please contact our team here and indicate your budget, and we’ll do our best to accommodate.
  • Once you complete this certification, you will be certified as an Advanced Food Allergies and Intolerances Nutritional Advisor. If you complete the Clinical Nutrition Program with Advanced Food Allergies and Intolerances Nutritional Advisor ™ as your elective specialisation, you will be a THSA Certified Clinical Nutritionist, with the post-nominal THSA-CCN.
  • Feel free to contact our team or join our online community to ask further.
  • Yes! Our online community is great for this.
  • Click here to join right away using either your desktop (web browser) or via your mobile (download app). 
  • If you aren’t registered yet, you’ll be allowed to register there (it’s free for you)! 
  • Once you’re in, create a new conversation and ask away.
  • CPD registration is optional, but if you’d like to evidence your completed hours for employers, clients, or your consultation space, you can add it on after graduation.
  • CPD certificates carry UK and international recognition.
  • Learn more here: CPD Professional Recognition.
  • Yes! We can arrange a printed pack for this certification.
  • It will be printed in high colour, on demand, in your name (!), and sent via courier to your home address.
  • Remember that this is optional – you do not require the pack to certify.
  • Please contact our team to arrange a pack.
  • Yes! We can arrange a physical certificate after you’ve graduated.
  • It's optional, and there is a small fee for the materials, packaging, handling and postage. This will be printed on security paper, with unique identifiers. 
  • Please get in touch with our team to arrange this.
  • Yes, if you realise within 14 days of joining  that this training is not right for you, we can either arrange a refund or provide you with a learner credit (T&C apply), provided you have not completed more than three modules of the course.

No, there is no deadline to complete your certification!

After you’ve enrolled, you can start whenever you want, pause when needed, and finish any time in future.

Tip: If you’re working with clients/patients, it’s recommended to take advantage of our study guides and map out your learning journey.

If you’re studying for self-knowledge, you can take as long as you need.

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