Nutrition: Introduction

Many of you might have already read our emails detailing a free online diet and disease course taught by Katie Ferraro, Assistant Clinical Professor of Nutrition at UCSF. It is a great tool to learn about the appropriate nutritional needs for patients concerned with weight management, heart disease, and diabetes.

We hope you are learning a lot from it so far and if you have not gotten a chance to sign up there is still time! 

Reminder: Before starting on the videos, please take this short 10-question online assessment by Sunday, August 4th for research purposes:
Online Assessment

And to enroll in the **FREE** course please go to the following website:
Nutrition for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention course

 

For 3 weeks, we will provide a weekly list of recommended videos to address your top concerns. Here are the recommended videos for the first two weeks:

Week 1 (total time, ~53 minutes)

1) Why Study Nutrition? (12:22)

2) Meal Planning Around the World (12:00) 

• Features My Plate and Harvard's Healthy Eating Plate guidelines

3) Determining Individual Nutrient Needs (12:23) 

• Features Harris-Benedict Eqn, Mifflin-St. Jeor (for overweight/obese) Eqn, and Shortcut: Calories/kg Method

4) Dietary Supplements (16:58)

• Features upper limits and introduction to contraindications/drug interactions

Week 2: Heart Disease and Diabetes (total time, ~1 hr 10 mins)

Heart Disease videos (time, ~36 mins)

1) Therapeutic Lifestyle Change (13:44)

2) Dietary Fats and Heart Disease (15:54) 

• Features saturated fat guidelines; info on meat and milk; reference to Harvard Fats and Cholesterol  handout (to improve lipid profiles)

3) Hypertriglyceridemia Management (7:46)

• Features dietary guidelines to follow if triglycerides are outside normal range

Diabetes (time, ~34 mins)

1) Physical Activity and Weight in Diabetes (10:38) 

• Features research about metformin/Diabetes Prevention Program and pre-diabetes/impaired glucose tolerance

 3) Meal Planning for Diabetes: Part 1 (10:40) 

• Features eating guidelines for dealing with hypoglycemia ("Rule of 15") and sick day management

4) Meal Planning for Diabetes: Part 2 (12:43) 

We hope you find these videos useful and we'd love to hear some feedback!