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ForwardPediatric Nutrition for the School-Aged Child: An Evidenced-Based Approach, Second Edition
Pediatric Nutrition is specialized medical nutrition therapy (MNT) that focuses on nutrition intervention over the spectrum from infancy to adolescence. This continuing education activity specifically focuses on nutrition therapy for the school-aged child (ages 5 to 12 years) and some of the nutritional/medical issues that are particular to this population.
With the childhood obesity epidemic on the rise in the United States, nutrition professionals must be savvy regarding normal pediatric nutrient needs, as well as how to properly assess the overweight child. Surprisingly, school-aged children are also vulnerable to eating disorders. It is also the age when many children get involved in sports activities through school or in their community for the first time. Therefore, it is during these school-aged years that some parents and even the children themselves begin to ask questions about proper nutrition and seek out various resources for the answers. Being able to educate children and their families and develop nutrition care plans while incorporating evidence-based nutritional practices is what distinguishes the nutrition professional as the expert.
This continuing education activity is designed to help you earn 14.0 continuing education credits for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, nutrition professionals will better be able to:
- Assess energy, protein, and fluid needs for children ages 5 through 12 years.
- Calculate Body Mass Index and be able to interpret growth parameters for a child in this school-aged population.
- Counsel clients and patients on the importance of portion distortion, food insecurity, and the role that dietary and lifestyle modifications have in the therapy of childhood weight management.
- Discuss how parental behaviors and attitudes can influence children’s eating habits.
Additional Information
Lizzie Streit, MS, RDN, LD, is a registered dietitian, nutrition writer, and recipe developer with a master’s degree in human nutrition. She is the creator of It’s a Veg World After All® and author of Vegetable Cookbook for Vegetarians: 200 Recipes from Artichoke to Zucchini (Rockridge Press) and The Complete Guide to Natural Vitamins (Quarto Group). Through her published works and recipes, she is devoted to helping others achieve and maintain good health by increasing their knowledge of nutrition and cooking skills. When she’s not in the kitchen, Lizzie enjoys exploring the local food scene in Minneapolis, exercising around the lakes and trails, and experimenting with her backyard vegetable garden. To see more of her work, visit itsavegworldafterall.com.
Lizzie Streit, MS, RDN, LD, faculty for this educational event, is a stockholder for Eli Lilly & Co. All relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.
The planners for this educational 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 (publisher of Wolf Rinke Associates) 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
- 14.00 CDR