Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine Assessment and Programs

Basic Screening

• Introduction (the importance of nutrition and lifestyle assessment in health management)
• The Anthropometric Evaluation
• The Dietary Assessment
• GI-disease and Medication Screening
• Nutritional Deficiencies and Depletion (including drugs and lifestyle)
• Exercise Screening and Programming

Commonly Encountered Health Conditions:

• Cardiovascular (cholesterol etc)
• Various Cancers
• Gastrointestinal
• Skin
• Systemic and Metabolic Disorders (e.g. osteoporosis, diabetes, thyroid etc)
• Men’s Health Issues
• Women’s Health Issues
• Family History and Disease Risk

Final Review:

• Drug-Nutrient Interactions and Other Contra-indications and Concerns
• Interpretation of Common Blood Work and Early Detection Procedures

Designing Patient Programs

• Customized Dietary plan
• Customized Exercise program
• Customized Supplementation regiment

Learning Objectives:

1. The student will have the skills to perform a comprehensive, evidence-based nutrition and functional assessment of the patient.
2. The student will have an in-depth understanding of common medical treatments patients are using to manage key health conditions and risk factors, and be able to guard against key drug-nutrient interactions in their patient programming.
3. The student will have the skills to design a personalized, evidence-based, comprehensive dietary plan, exercise program and supplementation regiment (and other natural lifestyle interventions where applicable) to enhance the patient’s health status, reverse key health risk factors and/or improve the management of existing health conditions.