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

1. Understand current American dietary guidelines and how science-based recommendations are different
2. 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
3. Cite relevant nutrition studies for nutrition prescriptions
4. Summarize impact of nutrition on sleep and stress and emotional well being
5. Briefly describe role of epigenetics and nutrition
6. List key macro and micronutrient areas where Americans get too much and or are lacking
7. Summarize how the physiology of diabetes is impacted with plant-based nutrition
8. Be able to use nutrition in all phases of illness and health
9. Understand how to make Lifestyle Medicine Nutrition Recommendations
10. Develop an understanding on how to coach a person through a nutrition prescription

Applicability

• Certification in Lifestyle Medicine

CEU and Cancellation Policy

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