Dietitian Course: Insulin Resistance, Inflammation and Health: Tailoring your Diet Therapy for Best Outcomes

INSULIN RESISTANCE, INFLAMMATION AND HEALTH: TAILORING YOUR DIET THERAPY FOR BEST OUTCOMES

Ever wonder what causes insulin resistance and how it affects health and metabolism? This webinar will address metabolism in the womb, what happens during pregnancy and how it affects child metabolism, adult inflammation, and risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and other medical issues. Nutritional, lifestyle and other treatment strategies will be covered.

Identify the causes of insulin resistance.

Address medical issues that stem from insulin resistance.

Discuss diet and lifestyle strategies to assist in treatment of insulin resistance and inflammation.

Better understand the value of biomarkers and how to use them for diet therapy.

Identify specific medications and supplements used to treat insulin resistance.

Live Webinar Date: Jan 31, 2019 (03:00 PM - 05:00 PM EST)

Course Categories / Learning Need Codes (LNC): 2110, 4120, 4180, 5410

Performance Indicators/Learning Objectives: 8.2.1, 8.3.1, 8.4.1, 9.1.1

Target Audience: RDs, DTRs, CDEs

Number of Credits: 2.0

Level(s): 1, 2

Total Cost: $36

About the Presenter: Susan Dopart, MS, RD, CDE

Susan B. Dopart, MS, RD, CDE, is a nutrition and fitness consultant who has been in private practice for more than 25 years. Susan specializes in child and adult medical nutrition-related issues associated with insulin resistance, diabetes and endocrinology, cancer, PCOS and exercise. Before establishing her own practice, Susan worked at UCLA as both a medical and kidney dietitian.

Susan has written and contributed to multiple publications, including The Huffington Post, SELF Magazine, UCLA Medicine, Sports and Cardiovascular Nutritionists SCAN publications, Diabetes Health and Diabetes Forecast.

Susan is the author of A Recipe for Life by the Doctor's Dietitian, Healthy You, Healthy Baby: A Mother's Guide to Gestational Diabetes, A Healthy Baker's Dozen: Gluten-free low sugar cookies, and 101 Ways to Control your Diabetes.

She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and conducts weekly workshops in Motivational Interviewing for clinicians wanting to learn collaborative language skills to assist with behavior change.