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Lecture Hall Nutrition | General

Calorie Intake: Raising Your Clients Awareness & Successful Teaching Techniques

Available Credits
CDR 1
ACPE 0.5

Anne Daly
Anne Daly, MS, RD, BC-ADM, CDE
Director of Nutrition and Diabetes Education
Springfield Diabetes & Endocrine Center
Springfield, IL
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This lecture provides an outline of todays eating habits and how calorie confusion and out of control portion sizes are culprits contributing to obesity epidemic. Since calorie balancing is the bottom line to successful weight management, improved calorie counting skills are needed. The use of food labs are one successful teaching strategy. Increasing clients' awareness of environmental triggers and their own personal danger zones for eating is essential. Teaching specific strategies to reduce calorie intake at home, in restaurants and away from home, with ethnic foods, holidays and special occasions are helpful to promote successful weight management.

Goal and Objective
After participating in this activity, the viewer should be better able to:
1. Describe at least 3 common example of calorie confusion
2. Describe how to use food labs to improve clients' awareness of calories
3. List at least 5.examples of winning substitutions for weight loss
4. Explain what a diet danger zone is and how to identify them

Estimated time to complete this activity is 25 minutes.

Physicians, diabetes educators, and other health care professionals who treat patients with diabetes.
Accreditation and Designation of Credit
DIETITIAN: PRESENT e-Learning Systems is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). Registered Dietitians (RDs) and Registered Dietetic Technicians (DTRs) will receive 1 continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for completion of this program/material.

Release Date: 03/05/2008 Expiration Date: 02/19/2014
Peer Review: on 03/05/2008

PHARMACY: Nova Southeastern University College of Pharmacy is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education. This program has been approved for 0.5 contact hours of General Pharmacy Continuing Education. (Activity Number:0092-9999-09-103-H01-P This i This is a knowledge-based activity)

Release Date: 01/25/2010 Expiration Date: 09/30/2012
Peer Review: on 09/30/2009
Activity Number: 0092-9999-09-103-H01-P This i This is a knowledge-based activity

System Requirements
Calorie Intake: Raising Your Clients Awareness & Successful Teaching Techniques
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Method of Participation
Calorie Intake: Raising Your Clients Awareness & Successful Teaching Techniques
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Complete the 4 steps to earn CE/CME credit:
  • Complete and submit the required pre-test
  • View Lecture
  • Complete and submit post-test and program evaluation. Credit will be issued with a passing score of 70% or better.
  • Click Print Certificate.
Disclosure Information
Calorie Intake: Raising Your Clients Awareness & Successful Teaching Techniques
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It is the policy of PRESENT e-Learning Systems and it's accreditors to insure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all its individually sponsored or jointly sponsored educational programs. All faculty participating in any PRESENT e-Learning Systems sponsored programs are expected to disclose to the program audience any real or apparent conflict(s) of interest that may have a direct bearing on the subject matter of the continuing education program. This pertains to relationships with pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or other corporations whose products or services are related to the subject matter of the presentation topic. The intent of this policy is not to prevent a speaker with a potential conflict of interest from making a presentation. It is merely intended that any potential conflict should be identified openly so that the listeners may form their own judgments about the presentation with the full disclosure of the facts.
Anne Daly, MS, RD, BC-ADM, CDE has nothing to disclose.