Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine Assessment and Programs

Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine Assessment and Programs is organized by Global Integrative Medicine Academy (GIMA).

Description:
Health practitioners recognize that nutrition, exercise and targeted nutritional supplements play an important role in optimizing health status, and are often used in conjunction with medical treatment in the management of many health conditions. This course outlines a comprehensive, systematic and clinically-relevant nutrition and lifestyle assessment, which enables practitioners to make personalized, evidence-based dietary, exercise and supplementation recommendations to their clients. Attendees learn how to quickly and efficiently gather all clinically-relevant data that are essential to a proper nutrition, lifestyle/healthy aging evaluation, which include the individual’s age, gender, dietary patterns, signs and symptoms of nutrient deficiencies, lifestyle factors that deplete specific nutrients, present or recurring health conditions, family history of degenerative health conditions, as well as other important lab findings and other health indicators. The assessment also takes in to account all contra-indications to dietary and supplement recommendations, as well as drug-nutrient interactions, to guard against inappropriate or dangerous nutrition, exercise or supplementation recommendations being made. An understanding of the medical management of common conditions is also included to help practitioners understand medical decision-making processes. In addition, this course also reviews again the baseline blood, urine, and other investigations that the patient should have performed by their family doctor, as a means to achieve

In addition, this course also reviews again the baseline blood, urine, and other investigations that the patient should have performed by their family doctor, as a means to achieve a complete understanding of the patient’s health status. In summary, this program provides practitioners with the clinical tools to quickly, accurately and responsibly identify the most appropriate supplementation and lifestyle modifications that are most appropriate for each client.

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:

• The student will have the skills to perform a comprehensive, evidence-based nutrition and functional assessment of the patient.
• 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.
• 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.