Course Sessions
- Nutrition for Prevention and Longevity | Available Now!
- Nutrition for Treatment and Risk Reduction | Available Now!
- Calorie Density: A Simple Yet Powerful Concept | Available Now!
- Preconception, Pregnancy and Postpartum | Available Now!
- Heart Disease | In Development
- Diabetes | In Development
- Cancers | In Development
- Brain Health | In Development
Food as Medicine
Pricing and CME/CE Prescribed by Session
Course Description
As one of the key pillars of lifestyle medicine, healthful eating has the power to help prevent, treat, and even reverse many chronic diseases. Yet, most clinicians do not receive education on food as medicine. This course will educate and equip clinicians with knowledge of dietary patterns shown to prevent, treat, and reverse diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers as well as prepare them to implement food as medicine at a practical level in patient care. The course will also include nutrition considerations for various lifecycle stages and special populations, nutrition and scope of practice, and pharmaceutical implications in food as medicine practice.
Learning Objectives
- Describe the overall dietary pattern for disease prevention and longevity.
- Apply nutrition guidelines for disease treatment and reversal of common chronic diseases.
- Develop nutrition prescriptions for disease treatment and reversal of common chronic diseases.
- Demonstrate practical strategies for implementing food as medicine in patient care.
Why This Course is Needed
Professional Practice & Education Gaps
Clinicians such as physicians and nurses receive little to no nutrition education despite the evidence showing that dietary habits significantly impact chronic disease prevention and progression. Since these clinicians lack nutrition education, they are unable to support patients in effectively making dietary changes. Although some clinicians like registered dietitians receive extensive nutrition education, their education focuses mainly on maintaining overall health, preventing chronic disease, and disease management versus disease treatment and reversal.
Educational Needs
Since dietary choices have such a profound impact on health and disease progression, all health care professionals should possess basic knowledge of utilizing food as medicine in patient care. For clinicians such as registered dietitians who are practicing more advanced nutrition therapy, the ability to apply food as medicine for the treatment and reversal of chronic disease is needed.
Target Audience
Clinicians with an interest in food as medicine:
- Physicians
- Registered nurses and nurse practitioners
- Physician assistants
- Registered dietitians
- Physical therapists and occupational therapists
- Pharmacists
- Other allied health professionals working with chronic disease prevention or treatment
- Certified health coaches
- Clinicians in training
Pricing:
Physician/Doctor: Non-Members: $120 | ACLM Members: $90
Non-Doctoral Health Professional: Non-Members: $90 | ACLM Members: $67.50
Student/Trainee: Non-Members: $60 | ACLM Members: $45
Credits
3 CME/CNE/CPE/CE Credits
Description
Diet has been identified as the single most important risk factor for morbidity and mortality in the United States, yet most health care providers spend relatively few hours learning about nutrition during their formal training. The limited nutrition education that is offered in medical and health professional programs is often primarily didactic and focused on the biochemistry of nutrients and health consequences of deficiency states—content that is of limited use in a clinical setting where the majority of the population faces over-nutrition due to high intake of ultra-processed, calorie-dense, high saturated fat-laden foods.
This Food as Medicine: Nutrition for Prevention and Longevity course is designed to serve as a nutrition educational opportunity that will:
- Review the current challenges in nutrition research and the challenges of disseminating accurate nutrition information to the public.
- Explain national and global nutrition recommendations and basic nutrition principles.
- Distinguish differences between health-promoting and health-harming foods.
- Describe the dietary pattern recommended by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine for disease prevention, treatment and reversal.
- Apply the concept of the dietary spectrum when making nutrition recommendations.
- Apply nutrition therapy scope of practice.
- Review the scientific evidence of popular diets.
Pricing:
Physician/Doctor: Non-Members: $60 | ACLM Members: $45
Non-Doctoral Health Professional: Non-Members: $45 | ACLM Members: $33.75
Student/Trainee: Non-Members: $30 | ACLM Members: $22.50
Credits
1.5 CME/CNE/CPE/CE Credits
Description
This Food as Medicine course session will provide an overview of the scientific evidence on food groups and dietary patterns for treatment and risk reduction of common lifestyle-related conditions, with a focus on cardiovascular disease, insulin resistance, cancer prevention, and obesity.
The session also includes a brief review of carbohydrates, fats, and protein in relation to chronic disease, as well as a discussion of practical approaches to nutrition counseling.
- Describe dietary patterns that have been shown to be effective in the treatment and risk reduction of common lifestyle-related chronic diseases
- Discuss how diet behaviors impact chronic disease development and progression
- Identify ways in which different macronutrient sources may contribute to disease progression or improvement
- Explore basic counseling strategies for dietary behavior change
Pricing:
Physician/Doctor: Non-Members: $50 | ACLM Members: $37.50
Non-Doctoral Health Professional: Non-Members: $37.50 | ACLM Members: $25
Student/Trainee: Non-Members: $25 | ACLM Members: $18.75
Credits
1.25 CME/CNE/CPE/CE Credits
Description
Calorie density is a wonderful tool and concept that, when understood, can effectively support weight loss and achieving optimal health. This Food as Medicine session, led by Medical Director of the McDougall Program and Lecturer at Kaiser Permanente Medical Group in Santa Rosa, Anthony Lim, MD, JD, DipABLM, will define calorie density and demonstrate the benefits of this approach with patients. The session will also cover some of the most common “pitfalls” or mistakes that patients make when it comes to calorie density. Lastly, we will review the application of calorie density principles to daily life for the purpose of achieving weight control and optimal health. After viewing the module presentation, learners should be able to:
- Apply nutrition therapy principles that address both overall health and healthy weight.
- Demonstrate application of food as medicine for overall health and healthy weight.
- Review the concept of calorie density and the benefits of eating a low calorie density diet.
- Ameliorate common pitfalls that patients fall into when it comes to calorie density.
- Discuss principles for how to apply calorie density in daily life.
Pricing:
Physician/Doctor: Non-Members: $120| ACLM Members: $90
Non-Doctoral Health Professional: Non-Members: $90 | ACLM Members: $67.50
Student/Trainee: Non-Members: $60 | ACLM Members: $45
Credits
3 CME/CNE/CPE/CE Credits
Description
Although nutrition plays a significant role in maternal and fetal health before and throughout pregnancy, its role is often marginalized. This course will explore the importance of nutrition in preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum health for the mother, child, and family. Participants will understand how nutrition may be linked to adverse pregnancy outcomes such as gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, low birth weight and preterm deliveries. The link between nutrition and developmental origins of health and disease will also be discussed. Clinical tools and resources will be shared to assist participants with supporting patients to improve their nutrition status prior to conception, throughout pregnancy, and postpartum.
- Review current nutrition therapy practices for preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum
- Describe evidence for nutrition therapy during preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum
- Demonstrate application of food as medicine during preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum
- Apply nutrition guidelines during preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum
- Demonstrate application of food as medicine during preconception, pregnancy, and postpartum