Health
Nutrition knowledge is most useful when it works in everyday life. This programme connects Swiss dietary recommendations with practical questions about meals, shopping, movement and personal routines. Learn to evaluate conflicting information and plan realistic changes without rigid food rules, weight-loss promises or an attempt to replace individual medical care.
Request informationYOUR PROGRAMME AT A GLANCE
For individuals & organisationsWe agree a start that fits your professional and personal commitments.
OSAM certificates: according to your starting level and learning goals. Company group programmes are usually planned in days or half-days.
Synchronous teaching. Both formats include the OSAM platform for course materials and organisational information.
From an eduQua-certified institution.
An individual quotation confirms the programme, delivery format and applicable fees.
Highly personalised teaching with experienced practitioners working at a high professional level.
FROM KNOWLEDGE TO CAPABILITY
Adults seeking stronger health literacy and employees or teams interested in practical prevention. Individual questions about a medical condition require separate assessment by an appropriately qualified nutrition or healthcare professional.
YOUR LEARNING JOURNEY
These modules form the core programme. Where useful, we refine the emphasis, examples and learning activities to reflect your professional context, starting point and objectives.
Explore the role of different food groups and learn to read recommendations in context. Variety and practical decisions are central. Examples distinguish general guidance for healthy adults from individual requirements associated with medical conditions, particular life stages or other special circumstances.
Work with the Swiss food pyramid and balanced-plate model. Exercises translate these references into breakfast, lunch and evening meals. Consider cultural preferences, vegetarian options and available ingredients without presenting one supposedly perfect pattern of eating as suitable for every individual.
Compare ingredient lists, portion information and selected marketing statements. Practise checking claims and questioning simplistic health promises. A shopping scenario combines cost, practicality and preferences rather than categorising individual foods as inherently good or bad without considering the wider dietary pattern.
Examine working hours, availability, social situations and routines as influences on food choices. Practical tasks support meal and break planning. Divide changes into manageable steps; body weight, appearance or strict monitoring are not treated as the sole measures of progress.
Connect food habits with movement, sedentary routines and recovery. Swiss physical activity recommendations provide a general reference rather than a personalised exercise prescription. Identify realistic adjustments for your day and recognise when symptoms or individual limitations call for professional assessment.
Set specific intentions and choose simple ways to reflect on your experience. A final case combines meal planning, source evaluation and everyday obstacles. Learn to adjust goals when circumstances change and seek qualified support when a question goes beyond general health education.
THE PEOPLE BEHIND YOUR PROGRESS
Educational direction, subject expertise and adult learning support. Your final trainer assignment is confirmed in your proposal.
DIRECTOR’S PERSPECTIVE
Managing Director
Simon Pawolleck provides OSAM’s overall direction. The focus is on relevant skills, a clear learning structure and personal support that connects professional ambitions with practical progress.
EXPERT’S PERSPECTIVE
Programme director
Sarah Longares brings the programme’s subject expertise into focus. The educational approach connects a structured foundation with practical situations, relevant exercises and feedback aligned with your professional objectives.
ADULT LEARNING & ANDRAGOGY
Head of Adult Learning
Federal Diploma of Higher Education in Adult Education
Sandrine Mélé oversees the adult learning approach: coherent progression, active participation and learning methods that take account of prior experience. She supports a structured, practical and human approach to developing competence.
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Developing the skills of their employees with OSAM.
An experience centred on the people who learn with us.
Personal career goals. Shared organisational priorities.
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LEARNERS’ VOICES
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“Excellent quality and personalised practical scenarios.”
GOOD TO KNOW
Adults seeking stronger health literacy and employees or teams interested in practical prevention. Individual questions about a medical condition require separate assessment by an appropriately qualified nutrition or healthcare professional. The programme is available to private individuals and organisations, including company teams. OSAM welcomes learners living or working in Switzerland as well as international participants joining live online.
OSAM is an eduQua-certified continuing education institution. An OSAM certificate documents the learning agreed for your programme; eduQua is a quality label for the institution, not federal recognition of every individual course.
OSAM’s work connects individual professional development with the needs of companies in Switzerland and internationally. Client references and learner reviews below offer a practical view of that work.
You develop skills you can apply in real situations, with guidance from experienced practitioners and access to learning materials on the OSAM platform. The programme focuses on these outcomes:
Yes. We start with the established programme and refine the emphasis, practical cases and learning support where useful. Adjustments take account of the individual or company’s professional context, existing skills and goals. The agreed programme is confirmed before enrolment; federal examination requirements remain binding where applicable.
For the OSAM certificate, contact us to review your current level, prior experience and objectives. We will confirm the appropriate entry requirements and any recommended preparation.
The course develops general nutrition literacy and planning skills. Nutrition treatment or a plan tailored to a diagnosed condition requires qualified individual advice and is not automatically included in this programme.
General orientation draws particularly on the Swiss Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office’s dietary guidance and BASPO/hepa activity recommendations. These references do not imply endorsement or accreditation of the OSAM course by those institutions.
Learning can focus on working routines, eating away from home and realistic breaks. OSAM agrees the objectives, group context, language, delivery format and price before the programme begins.
YOUR CAREER, IN PERSPECTIVE
Depending on your experience and qualifications, this subject can support development in the following professional directions.
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Tell us where you want to go. Together, we will define the learning journey that gets you there.
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