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Nutrition Education Topics:

• Sugar, Salt, Fat
  • Focus on food industry strategies to maximize palatability and profits
• Food Group Systems
  • Explore various classification systems including MyPlate and their rationales
• Eating for Mental Health
  • Focus on deficiencies that alter mental status and ways to combat them with food
• Inflammation and Anti-Inflammatory Foods
  • Describe importance of dietary fats and the benefits of Mediterranean-style eating
• Emotional Eating
  • Normalize the difficulties that arise in early recovery and how it can relate to food
• Cravings and Appetite Control
  • Describe the neurobiology of appetite with focus on brain chemistry and hormones
• Gut Microbiome
  • Discuss link between gut bacteria and overall health, ways to improve gut function
• The Importance of Fiber
  • Sources of dietary fiber, how to increase fiber emphasizing food over supplements
• Caffeine and Nicotine
  • Describe potential for abuse, safe upper limits, strategies for reduction/cessation
• Fads and Myths
  • Explore various fads on the market, why they are popular, why some are dangerous
• Body Image and Disordered Eating
  • Connecting body image to nutrition habits, including information for both genders
• Exercise in Recovery
  • Describe the scientific support for exercising in recovery and the associated benefits
• Budgeting and Shopping
  • Analyze costs of eating healthfully and the myth that is too expensive to eat well
• Mindful Eating
  • Introduce mindfulness as it related to nutrition and the importance of slowing down
• Cooking in Recovery
  • Explore easy recipe ideas for people to engage either in treatment or after
• Hands-on Nutrition
  • Engage activities such as cooking, snack preparation, grocery shopping, etc.

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