Study Guide: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Complete Food & Nutrition Guide, 5th Edition
Welcome to the pre-approved, accredited CPE program for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Complete Food & Nutrition Guide. The activity consists of a book of the same title by Roberta Larson Duyff, MS, RDN, FAND, FADA, and this Study Guide. This CPE activity is designed to help you provide sound, positive, and practical healthy eating advice to the public and respond to their nutritional concerns. It will also help you earn 45, continuing education credits for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
Learning Objectives
After completing this activity, nutrition professionals will better be able to:
- Counsel the public and answer questions about many common food and nutrition issues.
- Propose realistic, healthy ways to meet nutrient recommendations.
- Discuss practical strategies for buying, preparing, and serving safe, nourishing food and drinks with consumers.
- Identify and encourage strategies for parents and caregivers that can encourage young people to become healthy eaters.
- Identify factors that help to promote and manage a healthy weight.
- Apply evidence-based nutrition guidance when counseling clients about preventing or managing some food-related chronic diseases.
Additional Information
Roberta Larson Duyff, MS, RDN, FAND, FADA, is a nationally recognized food and nutrition consultant, author, and speaker, focusing on practical, science-based food and nutrition guidance and communication -- and promoting “the power of positive nutrition” and “the great tastes of good health” for the public at every age and stage of life. The Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics Complete Food & Nutrition Guide, now in its fifth edition, also clarifies healthy eating guidance for nutrition and other health care providers.
Roberta is the award-winning author of more than 18 books including the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics Complete Food & Nutrition Guide; Food, Nutrition, and Wellness for high school audiences, and several children’s books. She is a contributing author for the Academy’s Communicating Nutrition: A Comprehensive Guide and the developmental editor and a contributing author for the Academy’s Culture, Foodways and Counseling. Her articles, quotes, and recipes have appeared in national media including Better Homes and Gardens, Cooking Light, Men’s Health, 0 Magazine, Parenting, Shape, USA Today, Vegetarian Times, Wall Street Journal, Food and Nutrition Magazine, among others.
She is a nationally recognized speaker and has appeared on national and regional media. She has served as a consultant to government, food industry, and educational initiatives, including USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, the FDA, the National Science Teachers Association, the National Food Service Management Institute, and has written and produced food and nutrition communications for many food industry and trade organizations.
Roberta has received many awards, including the Academy’s prestigious Medallion Award and the Gold Award from the National Health Education Awards, delivered the Academy’s first President’s Lecture; and has received Missouri’s Outstanding Dietitian of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Awards. She served for three terms on the James Beard Journalism Awards Committee and subsequently as judge, honoring excellence in food journalism; on the Food Science and Nutrition Advisory Board at the University of Illinois; on the Nutrition & Dietetics Advisory Board at Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville; and as international co-chair of the Global Culinary Initiative of Les Dames d’Escoffier. She has held positions of national leadership in the Academy’s Food and Nutrition Professionals DPG as chair, and on the national board of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior (SNEB), and as president of the SNEB Foundation Board of Trustees, among others.
Roberta earned her B.S. at the University of Illinois, completed international studies with academic coursework on Semester at Sea, and received her M.S. in nutrition and education at Cornell University.
Disclosures:
The faculty and 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
- 45.00 CDR