The Current Issues in Nutrition lending library offers a new resource to complete continuing education requirements. Now you can access the full library of DVD's and listen and learn to programs of interest to you!
The DVD's ( with audio) of CIN conferences are available at a cost of $20 per CPE unit. Minimum number of CPEs that can be ordered is 2 CPE; orders of 4 or more CPEs receive a 20% discount (i.e. 4 CPEs for $64 -- savings of $16).
The DVD can be played in a DVD player or on your computer with most standard media players. This is a convenient way to update your professional knowledge and skills AND fulfill your Professional Development Portfolio (PDP) requirements and proceed at your own pace. Each entire day's program is approximately 5 hours in length and consists of the formal presentations and moderated question and answer sessions.
The Dietetics Academy at Iowa State University is accredited and approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) as a provider of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) programs for Registered Dietitians
Click on the links below for more information about each program
- 2007 Successful Aging: Lifelong Strategies for Health and Wellness
- Available CDs with presentations
- Disc 1 - 2 CPE
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Surviving into Very Old Age, Peter Martin, PhD , Professor and Director of Gerontology Program , Human Development and Family Studies, Iowa State University
- Recognize changing demographics of the aging
- Discuss difference between centenarians and younger age groups
- Identify psychosocial resources needed for healthy aging in rural and urban settings
- Identify trends in research on the aging
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Suggested 1040, and 4190
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A Nutrition Mosaic for the New Aging Reality, Nancy Wellman, PhD, RD, FADA, Director of the National Policy and Resource Center on Nutrition and Aging, Florida International University
- Disc 2 - 2 CPE
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Influence of exercise and diet on body composition and functional capacity, William Evans, PhD, Director of Nutrition, Metabolism, and Exercise Laboratory in the Donald Reynolds Institute on Aging, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and Virginia Medical Center
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Federal Programs and Rebalancing Care for Older Adults, Jean Lloyd, MS, RD, National Nutritionist, USAdministration on Aging within the USDepartment of Health and Human Services
- Discuss the rebalancing to home and community based long term care
- Recognize the predictors of nursing home placement
- Identify present and future federal nutrition and food assistance programs
- Suggested LNC4080, 4190, and 4030
- 2006 New Dietary Guidelines: Impact on Consumers, Industry and Nutrition
- Available CDs with presentations
- Disc 1 - 1 CPE
- Retail Food Purchases, Lisa Mancino, PhD, Economic Research Service, USDA, Diet, Safety, and Health Economics, Washington, D. C.
- Disc 2 - 2 CPE
- Food Industry's Role in Health Promotion, Susan Crockett, PhD, RD, FADA, Vice President, Senior Technology Officer, Health and Nutrition, General Mills, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Food industry perspective on the Dietary Guidelines
- One Corporation's Response: Whole Grain Reformulation Project
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Suggested LNC 4030
- Guidelines on Federal Nutrition Programs, Stella Nas, RD, MA, Regional Nutritional Director, USDA/Food and Nutrition Center, Denver, Colorado
- Proposed changes for WIC, Thrifty Food Plan and School Nutrition Programs
- Role of Federal Nutrition programs for a healthier America
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Suggested LNC 4080
- 2005 How America Eats: Health and Weight Management Implications
- Available CDs with presentations
- Disc 1 - 2 CPE
- "New"trition: the Revised Food Guidance System, Eric Hentges, PhD, Director, Center for Nutrition Policya nd Promotion, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Washington, D. C.
- Scientific basis and development of the new food guidance system\
- Educational opportunities for nutrition and health professionals
- Update on Low Fat Diets, Thomas C. Keyserling, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
- To understand, from an historical perspective, why low fat diets were advocated to prevent chronic disease.
- Disc 2 - 1 CPE
- Update on Low Carbohydrate Ketogenic Diets, Eric Westman, MD, MHS, Associate Professor of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina
- 2004 Metabolic Syndrome: Prevention and Treatment Challenge
- Available CDs with presentations
- Disc 1 - 2 CPE
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The Metabolic Syndrome: What It Is, and What It Is Not...Yet!, Frank Vinicor, M.D., M.P.H., Director, Division of Diabetes, Translation (K-10) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA
- Metabolic Syndrome: Definition, screening, and diagnosis
- Prevalence: Gender and ethnic differences
- Sorting out the controversies
- Questions/answers
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Diet and Other Lifestyle Approaches, Alice H. Lichtenstein, D.Sc., Gershoff, Professor of Nutrition Science and Policy, Director, Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, MA
- Nutrition and other lifestyle approaches to reduce the risk of Metabolic Syndrome
- Nutrition and other lifestyle approaches to alleviate the physiological consequences of Metabolic Syndrome
- Disc 2 - 1 CPE
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Pharmacological Approaches, Donna Ryan, M.D., Associate Executive Director for
Clinical Research, Pennington, Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, L
- Pharmacotherapy in the treatment of obesity: Central adiposity as a target for therapy
- Pharmacotherapy in the treatment of diabetes and dyslipidemia
- 2003 Overweight Issues in Childhood :Roles of Environment and Community
- Conference Goals
- Provide a critical review of research efforts to define the specific contributors to the increased prevalence of overweight problems among children.
- Suggest ways to put that research into practice by determing approaches that can help prevent excess weight gain in childhood
- Available CDs with presentations
- Disc 1 - 2 CPE
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Overview of Pediatric Overweight: Epidemiology and Environmental Approaches Patricia Crawford, DrPH, RD, Co-director, Center for Weight and Health, UC–Berkeley
- Children at risk for overweight
- Tracking of childhood overweight
- Genetic, sociodemographic, and key environmental factors
- School policy and legislative approaches
- Community efforts to counteract pediatric overweight
- Environmental approaches for practitioners
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Factors Affecting Eating Behavior of Children, Susan Johnson, PhD, Department of Pediatrics, JFK Center, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO
- Children's food acceptance patterns
- Preschooler's self-regulation of energy intake
- Familial and psychosocial influences
- Children's eating behavior: relationship to parental obesity and eating patterns
- Relationship of school environment to learning and performance
- Identifying problem behaviors
- Disc 2 - 2 CPE
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Obesity and the Environment: What Can Industry Do?, John Peters, PhD, Associate Director,, Food and Beverage Technology;, Head, Nutrition Science Institute, The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH
- Where are we today and how did we get here?
- Is it food or physical activity?
- Social drivers of our environment
- What do we need to do?
- Social change and building coping skills
- The role of industry and public-private Partnerships
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