Evidence-based guide to the uses, benefits, and practical application of a plant-based diet. Based upon the UK’s first university-based course on plant-based nutrition, which takes a holistic and systems-based (heart, respiratory, kidneys, liver, and gut) approach. Each chapter is written by experts in the topic. For clinicians, counselors, and all health professionals.
Shirreen Kassam, MB BS, FRCPath, PhD, DIPIBLM, Zahra Kassam, MB BS, FRCR (UK), FRCPC, MSc, DIPIBLM, and Lisa Simon, RD
Only three percent of CKD patients see a dietitian earlier than one year before dialysis when nutrition intervention could make a bigger impact. Kidney research has started to show benefits and guidelines have started to change to support recommending more fruits and vegetables for people with chronic kidney disease, reducing associated diseases like type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and hypertension.
Fully updated 2nd edition! It covers the newest evidence-based research in assessing growth and malnutrition, addressing feeding and eating issues, and conducting the nutrition focused physical exam. As a bonus, the Academy offers practitioners who purchase the book, 5 CPE hours for a total of 30 CPE hours for the purchase.
Behavioral Health Nutrition DPG (16 contributing authors and 17 reviewers) and editors: Wendy Wittenbrook, MA, RD, CSP, LD and Kelly Green Corkins, MS, RD-AP, CSP, LDN, FAND
Obesity and eating disorders often defy logic for health practitioners working with patients. The authors are experts in addictions and specifically, processed food addiction. This book contains evidence-based research supporting the diagnosis of addiction and a deep-dive into how processed foods become addictive. They share strategies to overcome the cravings for processed foods.
Joan Ifland, PhD, Mariann Marcus, PhD, and Harry Preuss, MD
Popular book with a nutrition focus on health of the mother and baby! For practitioners looking for current prenatal evidence-based research mixed with applied clinical experience this is the course! Over 930 citations to explain and back up guidelines. CDCES, CHES approved.
New editors! Twenty years of excellence! Updates in all major areas of pediatric nutrition, including physical assessment, MNT interventions, burns, weight, integrative medicine, and genetic disorders. Resource for specialty exam reviews for RDNs and MDs.
Susan Konek, MA, RDN, and Patricia Becker, MS, RDN, CSP, CNSC and 54 contributors
A silent health crisis is impacting 33% of Americans—nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. If your liver becomes overwhelmed, it can lead to fatigue, weight gain, liver disease, diabetes, and autoimmune disease. Written by an expert integrative RDN, nutrition manager at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute along with a hepatic physician.
Kristin Kirkpatrick, MS, RD, LD with Ibrahim Hanouneh, MD
A powerful guide to strengthen the gut-immune system with nutrition, fitness, sleep, stress reduction, breathwork, and meditation, plus the potent antiviral
effects of nature. Learn how to help your body resist viruses and recover from infection.
Autoimmune diseases are now more common than cancer in the US. This book & course cover at least 8 of the most common auto immunities and how to control symptoms naturally to optimize a person’s quality of life. Diet type, food allergies, and food variations are all individual depending upon the person and their diagnosis. Evidence-based.
This course offers new research on the causes and treatments for autoimmune diseases. Written by Harvard-trained Dr. Sara Szal Gottfried, MD from integrative and functional lens, she addresses the root causes and the lifestyle advice for lifelong healing. Emerging research shows that up to 80% of patients experienced significant emotional distress before getting sick.
Lymphedema treatment is an emerging area of interest and historically misunderstood and underdiagnosed. If started early, nutrition and exercise, along with treatment can stop or delay progression of the condition characterized by fluid retention and swelling that impacts about 10 million people in North America. It can be caused by infection, injury, genetic disorder, or as a complication of cancer treatment.
Totally updated with the newest evidence-based research on clinical nutrition and medical nutrition therapies. It has a readable format plus tables and boxes for immediate access to important data and facts.
Mary Width, MS, RDN, FAND and Tonia Reinhard, MS, RDN, FAND
Popular author! Recent research shows human intestinal microbiota influences metabolism, appetite, hormones, inflammation, and insulin resistance. Losing weight is more than cutting calories. Learn how to lose weight for good!
Gerard Mullin, MD, author of Integrative Gastroenterology
Wonderful resource! A comprehensive course for dietitians, physicians, and other health professionals on the nutrition medical nutrition therapy and integrative therapies for person’s with thyroid disease.
New York Times Bestseller! Use nutrition to rebalance hormones as a young woman through menopause. Covers low thyroid or progesterone, high androgen and cortisol levels, PMS, ovarian cysts, and hot flashes. Excellent resource!
Sara Gottfried, MD, Harvard Med. School, GYN specialist
Why are some leaders so much better than others at getting things done—and how can you be one of them? Learn how to hire the right people, inspire, lead, inspire loyalty, performance feedback, meet goals, and if necessary, let people go gracefully, quickly, and with compassion.
NY Times Best Seller that was requested by multiple RDNs! This course is a comprehensive review of the evidence-based research regarding why habits exist and how we can change them. Award-winning business reporter, Charles Duhigg, discusses a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential.
Bee Wilson shows that in two generations the world has undergone a massive shift from traditional, limited diets to more globalized ways of eating. Paradoxically, our diets are getting healthier and less healthy at the same time.
Award winning author Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist, examines the critical art of learning to question your opinions and open other people’s minds, which can position you for excellence at work and wisdom in life. In rapidly changing world, another set of cognitive skills that might matter more is the ability to rethink and unlearn.
Written by a neuroscientist and director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab, the author, Matthew Walker, PhD explores the purpose of slumber and its little acknowledged or understood crucial functions as related to mood, chronic disease, obesity, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, etc. He explains how to harness the transformative power of adequate sleep and how to sleep better tonight.
