Health Benefits of Nettles
This continuing education course reviews the health benefits of nettles and shares strategies clients can use to incorporate them into their diets for nutrition and health.
Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education course, nutrition professionals should be better able to:
- Evaluate the nutritional composition of nettles.
- Distinguish three potential health benefits of nettles.
- Assess potential safety considerations when using nettles in the diet or supplement form.
Additional Information
Course content was written and updated (2023) by Ginger Hultin, MS, RDN, CSO, an integrative nutrition specialist in private practice in Seattle, Washington.
The faculty and planners for this activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
An "ineligible company" includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.
Available Credit
- 2.00 CDR