Module 4: Foods Guidelines by Body System

Learning Objectives

As you work through the materials, your goals by the end will be to:

  • Understand how specific nutrient imbalances can be identified
  • Learn how to explain to clients how specific foods can balance specific nutrient imbalances
  • Understand the role of dietary fats in the cause and management of inflammation
  • Know how to teach your clients about carbohydrates, and discern how much, what types and how often they can and should include carbohydrate-rich foods.
  • Be able to explain to clients the difference between refined vs whole carbs
  • Learn how to determine which carbs work best for individual clients
  • Know how to create therapeutic diets related to carbohydrate tolerance of each client, based on whether they need low, medium, or high carbohydrate intake
  • Consider a Modified Specific Carbohydrate Diet if your client suffers from persistent digestive difficulties.
  • Understand how sugar is constructed on a molecular level, where sugar comes from in their diet, and what affects the rate of absorption and uptake into cells
  • Be able to explain to clients how sugar is converted to energy and what’s needed for sugar to be efficiently utilized
  • Know how to explain the negative effects of simple sugars, and alternatives to refined sugar for satisfying your cleints’ sweet toot

 

 

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