Conference Objectives
Our goal is to provide health practitioners with an understanding of the central role of nutrition in health and healing. To provide a scientific basis for the integration of nutrition and medicine in order to practice preventive and therapeutic nutritional medicine.
Why you should attend
Your patients increasingly call on your advice for diet and nutrition to promote good health and treat specific conditions. Proper diet is a fundamental building block to good health, yet many practitioners lack the basic expertise in nutrition to recommend dietary strategies to their patients.
To meet this growing need, this conference will provide you with essential information on:
- Practical strategies for incorporating nutrition into your clinical practice
- Using diet to prevent illness
- Nutritional recommendations for management of specific conditions
- Tools to evaluate the latest nutrition research findings
- Social and political aspects of diet and health
The conference provides an overview and practical summary of the latest information on nutrition and health presented by leaders in scientific research, clinicians skilled in nutritional medicine, experts on food and agricultural policy, and innovative chefs.
What you will learn
Upon conclusion of this course, you will be able to:
- Evaluate the risks and benefits of nutritional recommendations for specific health conditions through an analysis of the existing scientific and clinical evidence
- Incorporate nutritional information into clinical practice and advise patients about eating for optimum health, evaluating dietary supplements, and using dietary change as a therapeutic intervention
- Identify the nutritional values of anti-oxidants, macronutrients, micronutrients, dietary supplements, and protective phytochemicals
- Describe the interaction between genes and diet and the health implications for different types of patients
- Recognize the social and behavioral aspects of diet and health, the impact on obesity and diabetes, and implications for patient care
Practice Gap & Needs Assessment
Nutrition is one of the major influences on health and longevity, but physicians and other health professionals are rarely educated in this area. They are often unaware of the latest scientific findings on diet and health and are therefore poorly prepared to advise their patients about designing a diet for optimal well being or using dietary change as a primary treatment strategy in the management of disease.
This conference will provide an overview and practical summary of the latest information on nutrition and health, including practical strategies for incorporating nutrition into clinical practice, using diet to prevent illness, nutritional recommendations for management of specific conditions, and tools to evaluate the latest nutrition research findings.
The topic and program for this conference were developed by an advisory group based on feedback from participants in the 2004-2009 Nutrition & Health conferences, on data collected from clinicians who have taken part in Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine nutrition modules, on literature fostering effective nutrition counseling by practitioners, and on documentation of increased demand for nutrition education for health care professionals, as clearly demonstrated by the overwhelming success of the previous five conferences.
