Online Continuing Education Courses

Hour 1 - 3

• Discuss the role of diet in causing and preventing various diseases, particularly chronic diseases.
• Describe methods used to assess nutrition status.
• Explain how dietary recommendations are formulated.
• Incorporate nutritional information into clinical practice and advise patients about eating for optimum health as well as using dietary change as a therapeutic intervention
• Evaluate the benefits and risks of nutritional recommendations for specific health conditions through an analysis of the existing scientific and clinical evidence

Hour 4

• Investigate the importance of nutrient deficiencies
• Review the role of essential nutrients in human health
• Analyze the interaction between nutrients and various illnesses
• Ascertain the role herbs have in health and disease
• Understand drug and nutrient interactions