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Nutrition plays a vital role in health and wellness. This course will help the learner recognize the role food plays in lifestyle-related disease. In Lifestyle Medicine, the practitioner must move beyond diets and work to change behaviors through medical nutrition counseling. A special focus will be on nutritional prescription that will inspire clients to change food consumption habits to improve the human experience.
Course Objectives/Outcomes
- Understand current American dietary guidelines and how science-based recommendations are different
- Describe the role and implication of nutrition in common lifestyle-related diseases and how Lifestyle Medicine can prevent/treat/reverse common chronic diseases affecting the United States
- Cite relevant nutrition studies for nutrition prescriptions
- Summarize impact of nutrition on sleep and stress and emotional well being
- Briefly describe role of epigenetics and nutrition
- List key macro and micronutrient areas where Americans get too much and or are lacking
- Summarize how the physiology of diabetes is impacted with plant-based nutrition
- Be able to use nutrition in all phases of illness and health
- Understand how to make Lifestyle Medicine Nutrition Recommendations
- Develop an understanding on how to coach a person through a nutrition prescription
Applicability
Evidence In Motion is an AOTA Approved Provider of continuing education. By taking an EIM continuing education course designed for OTs/OTAs you may qualify for AOTA CEUs. *The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
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Why EIM
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