Nutrition plays a growing role in atrial fibrillation care, with evidence supporting heart-healthy dietary patterns, targeted lifestyle changes, and cautious use of supplements to reduce risk and improve outcomes.
Clinical Nutrition
With the growing food as medicine movement, it’s important for dietitians to know the limits of nutrition and lifestyle interventions so they can support their patients and clients who may be dealing with bone loss or at risk for it.
Young adults are seeking ways to enhance focus, mental clarity, and mental stamina, yet nutrition is often overlooked as a key factor in cognitive performance. Dietitians can integrate brain-focused nutrition education to empower this population to make more informed dietary decisions in ways that align with their values.
This continuing education course examines the impact of vitamin D on diabetes. Vitamin D and calcium homeostasis may play direct and indirect roles in the development of diabetes and vitamin D can affect numerous complications associated with this disease state.
Introducing mindfulness into dietetics practice has long been a valuable adjunct to both MNT and more counseling-focused nutrition interventions, in part because it helps people increase their awareness of what’s happening in the present moment and lessen rumination on unhelpful or distressing thoughts.
Hospital food and nutrition services (FNS) teams are expected to meet high expectations as benchmarked on patient satisfaction surveys.
Human trafficking is one of the fastest growing global enterprises, involving over an estimated 50 million women, men, and children in nearly every country of the world.
Homocysteine is a sulfur-containing nonessential amino acid that is formed in the body during the metabolism of dietary methionine to cysteine.
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) is a condition that affects up to 50% of men as they age and over 94 million men worldwide. BPH is defined by a noncancerous growth (also known as hyperplasia) on the prostate tissue.
Bipolar disorder (BD) is a complex and often debilitating mental health condition characterized by marked fluctuations in mood and energy.