• Activity INFORMATION

  Overview

  The food we eat plays a critical role in our overall health and wellness, not just in preventative medicine. The food we eat also plays a major part in healing as well. In this module we will identify the impact that alterations to our food system and diet has had on our genome, as well as how this has had a dramatic impact on our health today. We will define the common vitamins and minerals frequently lacking in the typical Western diet. We will also examine the western lifestyle and diet compared to others around the world.

  Handouts

  • Slide Document :   22244H99_6pp.pdf Download

  • Slide Document :   22244H99_2pp.pdf Download

  Financial Support By

  PharmCon

• Learning OBJECTIVES

  Pharmacist

  List the common traits of various lifestyle diets around the world.

  Recognize how research on lifestyle diets align with the modern day disease states of today.

  Identify the impact that alterations to our food system and diet has had on our genome which dramatically impacts our health today.

  Differentiate between a healthy traditional indigenous diet, and an unhealthy modern westernized diet.

  Define the common vitamins and minerals frequently lacking in the US diet.

• Activity ACCREDITATION

  Activity Type

  Knowledge

  CE Broker

  20-928567

  Universal Activity Number

  Pharmacist 0798-0000-22-244-H99-P
  

  PharmCon is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.

  PharmCon is an approved course provider for continuing education for nurses by the Florida Board of Nursing. PharmCon is also recognized by the California Board of Nursing as a provider of nursing programs.

  In order to obtain a Statement of Credit, participants must score no less than a 70% on the activity's test and complete a program evaluation.

• Activity INSTRUCTION

  Faculty

  Robert  Kress, RPh Functional Pharmacy Consulting

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