Obesity, Nutrition, and Bariatric Surgery: 2024 Update
hosted byContinuing Education IncObesity, Nutrition, and Bariatric Surgery: 2024 Update is organized by Continuing Education, Inc. and will be held from Oct 14 - 21, 2024 at AmaWaterways AmaVerde, Budapest, Hungary.
Program Purpose:
Why is obesity everywhere and so hard to manage? Rational management considerations and strategies
• Understand the demographics and penetration of weight issues as you see in your practice, inclusive of co-morbidities seen
• Explain the impact of obesity in the lives of your patients
Understanding obesity surgery. Understanding the procedures, risks, and benefits
• Discuss the historical and current bariatric interventional and surgical options for the non-surgeon
• Understand the potential use of these interventions for weight control
• Discuss the risks and benefits of bariatric surgery and treatment
• Discuss the goals, efficacy, and limitations of bariatric surgery
How to manage bariatric surgery patients post and peri-operatively: behavioral changes, supplements, and understanding issues and complications that may arise
• Effectively engage your bariatric surgery patients in their weight loss efforts
• Develop a patient-driven and empathetic approach to guiding your bariatric surgery patients in their health and weight-loss pursuits
• Create an interprofessional team to better serve your bariatric surgery patients' weight loss needs
How to talk to your patients about their weight issues. How to guide them in their weight loss pursuits
• Effectively engage your patients in their weight loss efforts
• Develop a patient-driven and empathetic approach to guiding your patients in their health and weight-loss pursuits
• Create an interprofessional team to better serve your patients' weight loss needs
Myths vs. Science in Nutritional Trends: Approach for the Medical Professional
• Discussion of how to scientifically navigate the nutritional maze of popular diets and nutritional trends; The potential nutrition benefits and pitfalls of various dietary preferences and related patient concerns; Ways nutrition affects healthy lifestyles
Cutting Edge Nutrition Innovation: A Personalized Approach
• How to critically evaluate nutrition tools that patients can use to promote optimal health; Review the “latest and greatest” nutrition applications and technologies that can be used to greatly improve patients' nutrition and health pursuits; Creation of personalized health plans based on unique, patient-specific plans, tests, and analyses
Medical Nutrition Therapy: A Practical Approach to Diet and Disease
• Science-based Nutrition and Behavioral Guide to Treating “The Big” Medical Problems that are taking over your practice; Essential (and proven) strategies to help guide patients' diet and behaviors in the treatment of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and GI health; Travel through the google-mess of what patients hear and why they turn to these as resources; The science-based strategies and resources that can be implemented to help patients take rational control of their health
Nutrition Through the Ages: Prevention and Potential Pitfalls
• A working guide for a nutritional and behavioral rubric to understand what is expected (and what may undermine) optimal health from infancy through the elderly; Barriers patients face in implementing and sticking with nutritional strategies
Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.
