Due to the high global burden of disease, the American Heart Association (AHA) recently shifted its focus from management of heart disease to one of embracing and incorporating health promotion and disease prevention. This renewed focus on prevention aims to ensure that prevention-related interventions for heart disease and stroke events effectively reach the vulnerable populations, communities and the healthcare and public health systems. It will require an emphasis on health behaviors, in particular diet and physical activity. The diet focus includes an emphasis on whole foods plant based dietary patterns including referral of patients to a dietitian for personalized nutrition intervention for optimal cardiometabolic outcomes and cost savings. For many, changing the way they’ve been eating for years feels daunting. This session will include: 1) A review of the scientific rationale for whole foods plant based diets for prevention of heart disease and diabetes, 2) How to develop a customized nutrition action plan for the patient including referral to a dietitian for personalized nutrition counseling and follow up, 3) Address the perceived barriers to plant-based eating, and 4) How to help patients adopt a cardioprotective plant-based eating plan healthier habits that is sustainable and 5) What truly constitutes the definitions of a plant-based diet: does plant-based mean 100% plants, or can some animal products (e.g., fish) be consumed? What about the variants of low or no-oil, fat-reduction and the recent explosion of plant-based meats and other favorites (i.e. non-dairy cheeses, etc.)?
Please note, if you have claimed credit for the session during the live virtual meeting or in the months after, you cannot also get CE for this recorded session.
Presented by: Geeta Sikand, MA, RND, FAND, CDE, CLS, FNLA; Kerri Whitley, MS, RDN, LD, CCRP, EP-C
Due to the high global burden of disease, the American Heart Association (AHA) recently shifted its focus from management of heart disease to one of embracing and incorporating health promotion and disease prevention. This renewed focus on prevention aims to ensure that prevention-related interventions for heart disease and stroke events effectively reach the vulnerable populations, communities and the healthcare and public health systems. It will require an emphasis on health behaviors, in particular diet and physical activity. The diet focus includes an emphasis on whole foods plant based dietary patterns including referral of patients to a dietitian for personalized nutrition intervention for optimal cardiometabolic outcomes and cost savings. For many, changing the way they’ve been eating for years feels daunting. This session will include: 1) A review of the scientific rationale for whole foods plant based diets for prevention of heart disease and diabetes, 2) How to develop a customized nutrition action plan for the patient including referral to a dietitian for personalized nutrition counseling and follow up, 3) Address the perceived barriers to plant-based eating, and 4) How to help patients adopt a cardioprotective plant-based eating plan healthier habits that is sustainable and 5) What truly constitutes the definitions of a plant-based diet: does plant-based mean 100% plants, or can some animal products (e.g., fish) be consumed? What about the variants of low or no-oil, fat-reduction and the recent explosion of plant-based meats and other favorites (i.e. non-dairy cheeses, etc.)?
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the benefits of protein stretching, and name at least three different ingredients that work well for doing so.
- Compare three different approaches to a nutrition action plan based on a patient’s readiness to change.
- Enumerate recent scientific evidence that supports plant-based dietary patterns that are beneficial in the prevention of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
- Identify the four components and effectiveness of medical nutrition therapy provided by registered dietitians to optimize the patients’ cardiometabolic status.
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