What are some common nutrition education topics you cover?
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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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