Overview:

This module provides an overview of health promoting nutrition principles and the impact of common dietary patterns on chronic disease prevention, treatment, and remission. Micronutrients and macronutrients will be discussed in relation to an optimal nutrition pattern and clinical nutrition assessment tools will be reviewed. By the end of this module, our hope is that you will have learned how to prescribe nutrition as medicine for your patients with diet related chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and autoimmune disease. 

Units:

Unit 1: Introduction to Nutrition

Unit 2: Dietary Patterns 

Unit 3: Micro- and Macronutrients 

Unit 4: Clinical Nutrition Assessment

Unit 5: Nutrition for Prevention, Treatment, and Remission of Obesity

Unit 6: Nutrition for Prevention, Treatment, and Remission of Diabetes 

Unit 7: Nutrition for Prevention, Treatment, and Mitigation of Cardiovascular Disease

Unit 8: Nutrition for Prevention, Treatment, and Remission of Autoimmune Disease

Unit 9: Nutrition in Cancer Risk Reduction and Survivorship

Unit 10: Nutrition Prescriptions