Certified Health Educator Specialists (CHES)

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New York Times Best Seller! This course is a comprehensive review of the evidence-based research regarding cognitive longevity. Sanjay Gupta, MD, CNN medical correspondent, discusses protecting the brain from decline and providing resiliency if it has begun. 

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Intriguing book! It explores what is known about how biological clocks are embedded in every aspect of human biology, guiding us toward the best times to sleep, eat, take medications, to think, and to work. Award-winning scientist, Russell Foster, explains how and why night-shift work, caring for a newborn, and too busy calendars take their tolls on mental and physical health. Excellent resource for counselors, clinicians, and business managers.

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Patients with prediabetes or diabetes can improve glycemic control through intensive management, good lifestyle choices, and a mix of integrative and traditional therapies. Following individualized diabetes care, preventing or reversing existing complications is possible.

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This new updated 8th edition covers the newest evidence-based research in insulin administration, pump therapy, and CGM. There are therapies for the management or prevention of complications, information on diabetes self-care and counseling strategies to improve family support and psychosocial care.

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New edition! As Type 2 diabetes continues to rise in prevalence around the world, it is important for clinicians to stay current and choose the most effective interventions. This edition covers oral medications, diet and lifestyle modifications, insulin regimens, and the latest clinical guidelines from ADA.

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For the manager, entrepreneur, leader, or aspiring leader in health care and social services. Learn how to transform conversations and minimize resistance within colleagues and employees concerning change, addressing performance, or creating new procedures. 

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Good advice alone is not enough when it comes to helping patients manage chronic and acute conditions and make healthier choices in such areas as diet, and preventive care. “Even the briefest clinical interaction can serve to build trust, clarify patients' goals as well as reasons for ambivalence, and guide them to take positive steps. Vivid sample dialogues, tips, and scripts illustrate ways to incorporate this evidence-based approach into diverse health care settings, including remote work.”

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This book explains the proven, popular counseling approach, Motivational Interviewing (MI), and shows how to integrate it into present counseling interactions with clients. MI offers tools to help clients work through ambivalence and avoid quick-fixes and overcome barriers to change and maintain healthier habits. Sample dialogues show specific ways to improve conversations on movement and planning and eating better.

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This new edition provides vital tools for helping young people open up about their struggles, explore alternatives, and make healthier choices. The authors show how to have productive conversations about behavior change with adolescents and young adults in any clinical context.

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Over 750,000 copies sold making it the number one sports nutrition resource for active people. New discussion includes overhydration, nutrient timing, advice for athletes who have undergone bypass surgery, and new guidelines on energy drinks.

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Totally updated and expanded with new health guidelines, case studies, and clinical conditions. Excellent resource for working in hospitals, nursing homes, and public health. Covers the unique physiological changes and nutritional needs of this aging population as well as clinical guidelines.

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This book covers the latest evidence-based, practical sports research on how to train and compete at the athlete’s highest level. Whether a weekend athlete who wants to get better or a top competitor, there are component secrets like overall health, nutrition, sleep, stress management, training, and recovery that can be adjusted to greatly change outcomes.

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The perfect course for sports nutritionists to help their athlete clients who want to move to a more plant-based, vegetarian, or vegan diet. The book has evidence-based research on the advantages of plant-based eating, while improving performance. The authors give practical ways to eat and avoid issues with training and competition.

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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. 

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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. 

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Popular book on baby-lead weaning (BLW): when what, and how! For practitioners looking for current evidence-based research on BLW and the 26 favorite natural solid foods to start with, how to keep food safe, foods to prohibit because of choking risk, and how to navigate, recognize, and prevent food allergies or sensitivities.

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The author, Layal Liverpool, a virologist, immunologist, and science journalist, reveals the fatal stereotypes that keep people of color undiagnosed, untreated, and unsafe, and she tells us what to do about it. The Covid pandemic taught us that it disproportionately affected people of color.

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Thought-provoking, beautifully illustrated book on 10 additional years of research on the Blue Zones where people around the world live the longest—including lessons learned, top longevity foods, and the behaviors that extended quality life. And Buettner reveals an all-new blue zone—the first man-made using his Blue Zone Project, which has improved the health of over 5 million Americans.

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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.

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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.