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The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People

C272
20 CPEUs
HARD COPY
$159.95

This groundbreaking best-selling CPE activity reveals how to transform your client's health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities with the world's longest-lived, and healthiest, people. You too can apply what the author has learned from launching the largest preventive health care project in the United States. Upon completion of this CPE activity you will be better able to:

  • Integrate outcomes research to plan programs that help clients achieve healthier nutrition, lifestyles and longevity.
  • Utilize proven lifestyle evaluation tools to assess pre- and post-program participant's or client behaviors and health status.
  • Recommend "best" and "worst" foods for promoting health and longevity.
  • Identify health benefits, recommended servings and the healthiest varieties of various foods such as meat, fish, eggs, nuts, bread, and plant-based foods.
  • Assist clients in identifying barriers to change, and formulating positive social relationships linked to improved health.

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The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this CPE activity you will be better able to:

  • Identify geographical areas around the world where people live measurably longer and healthier lives.
  • Recommend specific lifestyle characteristics that are associated with longevity.
  • Identify Blue Zones foods that are linked to longevity.
  • Integrate outcomes research to plan programs that help clients achieve healthier nutrition and lifestyles.
  • Discuss the importance of the paradigm shift, which result in healthier outcomes.
  • Utilize proven lifestyle evaluation tools to assess pre- and post-program participant's or client behaviors and health status.
  • Discuss research that links higher healthcare costs to the incidence of overweight and obesity.
  • Recommend potential health benefits of plant-based diets, and assist clients in developing menus.
  • Suggest "best" and "worst" foods for promoting health and longevity.
  • Assist clients in meeting recommended protein needs from vegetarian sources.
  • Identify health benefits, recommended servings and the healthiest varieties of various foods such as meat, fish, eggs, nuts, bread, and plant-based foods..
  • Recommend culinary herbs, and discuss their unique protective health benefits.
  • Discuss "mindless eating" and identify environmental modifications that can help clients eat more mindfully, healthfully, and naturally.
  • Recommend strategies for dining out more healthfully.
  • Discuss the research and potential benefits associated with calorie restriction.
  • Provide guidelines for alcohol consumption, and identify potential health benefits and detriments.
  • Discuss how social interaction and support is integral to health and longevity.
  • Assist clients in identifying barriers to change, and formulating positive social relationships linked to improved health.
  • Provide guidelines for sugar consumption, and recommend possible alternatives.
  • Recommend eating patterns associated with longevity and weight management.
  • Suggest healthful modifications to improve sleep.
  • Recommend strategies to help clients develop a taste for new flavors and textures.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

New York Times best-selling author and National Geographic Fellow Dan Buettner has delivered more than 3,000 speeches to audiences' world-wide. His TED Talk "How to live to be 100+" has been viewed over 2 million times and his New York Times Sunday Magazine article, "The Island Where People Forget to Die" was the second most popular article of 2012. Dan has keynoted speeches for Bill Clinton's "Health Matters Initiative", Google's "Zeitgeist", "TEDMED", and many other nationally renowned conferences.
In 2009 Dan, in conjunction with AARP, applied principles of The Blue Zones to Albert Lea, Minnesota and successfully raised life expectancy and lowered health care costs by some 40%. He's currently working with Healthways to implement the Blue Zones Project in cities throughout America.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE STUDY GUIDE

Over the past 25 years Registered and Licensed Dietitian Susan Burke March has made her personal passion for healthy living and smart weight management her vocation. Susan holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in nutrition and education, is a certified diabetes educator, and holds advanced certificates of training in Adult Weight Management (Levels 1 and 2) and Childhood and Adolescent Weight Management. She served as Chief Clinical Nutrition Manager at Mt. Sinai Hospital of Queens, New York.
Susan is the former Vice President of Nutrition and Chief Nutritionist for eDiets.com, a leader in the online weight management program arena. She led the nutritional development of a roster of healthy weight programs, and spearheaded development of unprecedented features and services that today are commonplace in the online weight management industry. Susan served on the board of the Weight Management Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and as a spokesperson for the Florida Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
Susan is the author of the practical and informative book Making Weight Control Second Nature: Living Thin Naturally (Mansion Grove House, 2009) and the accompanying 26-CPEU study guide published by Wolf Rinke Associates (2010). She and her husband Ken are currently living and studying Spanish in Ecuador's third largest city, Cuenca. Susan is the Nutrition and Health Columnist for CuencaHighlife.com, and blogs on SecondNatureNutrition.com about Ecuadorian food, health issues, and nutrition news for the expat community.


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