Nutritional Management for Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk Reduction

1 credits · School of Nursing

Describe culturally relevant strategies for lifestyle and nutritional management of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Focus on nutritional assessment, planning and counseling for adult and adolescent patients with diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Course content will include medical nutritional therapy for management of diabetes and carbohydrate counting with strong emphasis on nutritional strategies for lipid management, cardiac risk reduction, and treatment of obesity. Strategies for health behavior change and change theory included.