Nutritional information can provide a valuable first step in managing your health. For example, making dietary changes is an important step in the treatment of a variety of health conditions such as Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes.
Reliable nutritional information is also available at California Pacific Medical Center's Community Health Resource Center, where registered dietitians provide individual session, as well as nutritional information lectures to community groups. Topics include nutritional aspects of hypertension, diabetes, osteoporosis, cholesterol, heart disease reversal, and weight management.
Attending a nutrition class offers another way to learn about your health.
• Change
of Heart, a class focusing on heart disease management through nutritional changes.
• Nutrition
basics and meal planning, for people who have diabetes.
• Weight
to Go, which covers healthy weight management through nutrition and lifestyle change.
• Know
Your Fats, part of an annual mini-medical lecture series, provides food and
nutritional information on fats, oils and cholesterol.
You may also want to schedule a nutritional guidance consultation at the Health and Healing Clinic. Either a physician or nutritionist will partner with you to create an individual and well balanced nutritional plan focusing on significant areas such as foods for maximum energy, allergy related foods, meal planning or weight management. If you would like to know more about losing weight, explore the Weight Management Program, a medical-behavioral program that emphasizes strategies for long-term weight loss success and lifestyle changes.
If you are the type who would like to learn at your own pace, then Learning Resources is where you will find a searchable database of classes, info sheets and handouts, educational consultations and more. You can also find helpful info sheets and handouts on the following topics:
• Diabetes dietary
guidelines
• Eating
disorders
• Strategies
for getting children to eat
• Food and
Drug Interactions
• Nutritional
information for the nursing mother
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