Shift Your Mindset: Nutrition by Addition
Instead of focusing on restriction, embrace a new approach to healthy eating—one that’s centered on abundance. Nutrition by Addition teaches you how to incorporate more nutrient-dense foods into your diet to support overall well-being. By shifting your mindset to adding nourishing options rather than eliminating foods, you can create a sustainable, positive relationship with nutrition.
The Power of Nutrient-Dense Foods for Lifelong Health
Learn how to cultivate a positive nutrition mindset that prioritizes adding nutrient-dense foods for long-term health benefits. This course is designed to help you understand the role of nutrient density, mindful eating, and essential vitamins and minerals for optimal well-being.
Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Discover the benefits of nutrient-dense foods and how they impact health
- Learn mindful eating strategies to improve food choices and satisfaction
- Develop a sustainable approach to nutrition that focuses on abundance, not restriction
- Reframe negative language around food and diet to positive alternatives
- Understand how positivity benefits nutrition and behavior change
- Identify nutrient-dense foods to add to the diet seamlessly
- Set goals for long-term nutrition behavior change
About Your Instructor
Lois Duke, MS, RD, CDCES
Lois is a Registered Dietitian and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist. She holds a master’s degree in nutrition from Columbia University and a master’s degree in education from the Bank Street School of Education in New York, NY. Currently, she is employed by EXOS Human Performance as a Nutrition Specialist in Corporate Wellness at Johnson & Johnson.
She has been working as a dietitian for 20 years in a wide variety of settings, including diabetes, weight management, sports nutrition, and wellness. She loves to cook and has attended culinary school and worked in the culinary field.
Her passion is to bridge the gap between nutrition and the kitchen, motivating others to implement nutritious and delicious foods into their eating plan. In her off time, she’s an avid cyclist and loves to hike and play with her 8-month-old golden retriever.
Course Learning Objectives
- Understand the benefits of a positive nutrition mindset on healthy eating and behavior change
- Understand fixed vs. growth mindset
- Understand nutrient density and its benefit towards behavior change and positive mindset
- Identify examples of nutrient-dense foods
- Provide examples of nutrition-dense foods and strategies to include them the diet
- Explain the concept of mindful eating
- Be able to understand strategies to implement mindful eating
- Understand negative language surrounding food and diet and its consequences
- Identify positive language alternatives
- Understand how to reframe negative language/thinking to positive
- Understand successful ways to set goals for long-term nutrition behavior change
What Your Course Includes
- 1 webinar video (1 hour in length)
- 2 research articles
- 1 open note, 25-question quiz
- Earn 6.0 AFPA CECs/CEUs
