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Making Weight Control Second Nature: Living Thin Naturally
Susan Burke March, MS, RD, LD/N, CDE
C205: 26 CPEUs, $155.95
(Book, 324 pgs and study guide, 38 pgs)This program is designed to provide you with information to instruct and counsel your clients and patients to lose weight healthfully, and maintain their weight permanently. It also provides you with practical information to address your clients' stage of behavioral change and help them modify their usual eating patterns and incorporate physical activity into sedentary lifestyles to manage weight and reduce the risk for diseases associated with overweight and obesity. It will help you:

• Apply the research regarding perpetual dieting, and its impact on national physical and economical health.
• Recognize the pervasiveness of eating disorders, and the causes and symptoms associated with chronic dieting.
• Identify how childhood, adolescent and adult obesity are related and predictable and how weight management decreases the risk for a myriad of preventable diseases.
• Evaluate your client's readiness for change, and create a program that is appropriate for the individual.
• Refocus clients' expectations from weight to health and recommend changes to your clients' lifestyles so that they can achieve improved health.
• Explicate the difference between "diet" and "dieting" and create a program that focuses on healthy behaviors instead of dietary restrictions.
• Recommend specific strategies to improve client's personal food choices, improve their menu planning, shopping and cooking techniques and provide clients with a structured walking and activities plan.
• Teach clients about recommended portions from each food group, and help them select the healthiest and most weight-friendly choices within each group.
• Review vegetarian diets' benefits and variations, and describe how to include sufficient nutrients to maintain health, while lowering the impact on the environment.
• Provide comprehensive information about dining out healthfully in a myriad of restaurant and offsite locations.
• Identify credible print and online resources and references to help clients' stay current with nutritional and weight management research and recommendations.