Content
- Weight Management for Teens Course
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A
nondiet approach to health & fitness for adolescents |
Based
on the highly successful Teens & Diets: No Weigh,
this course applies the proven practical strategies and techniques
of the nondiet approach to food, fitness, and lifestyle.
Teaches how to help adolescent clients
develop nourishing eating and activity patterns. 120 pages.
Produced by Nutrition
Dimension, America's Leading Nutrition Educator
Qualifies
for 6 continuing education credits for:
RDs, DTRs, CFCSs, CDMs, ASFSA
by
Linda Omichinski, RD & Kathleen R Harrison, MSc, RD, CDE
Prepare yourself to truly reach
teens
Some of the objectives
you'll have reached upon successful completion of this course,
 Explain
the forces that influence how teenagers feel about themselves.
Define
body image and identify three consequences of poor body image.
Describe
how eating disorders and dieting behaviors are related.
List
five developmental tasks of adolescence.
Explain
how smoking is used by teenage girls.
Describe
eight facilitated empowerment techniques for teen groups.
List
three functions of nourishment by food for the adolescent.
Describe
the effect of physical activity on teens’ psychological
health.
List
10 personal and internal indicators of healthier living.
Explain
how a healthy body metabolism operates.
List
five benefits of eating breakfast.
Describe
the consequences of caffeine, nicotine and sugar abuse.
Explain
the role of carbohydrate and protein in appetite control.
List
five reasons why fat is important in adolescent eating patterns.
Contrast
restriciting fat and retraining tastes for fat.
Explain
why iron deficiency is a concern for teenage vegetarians.
Describe
how natural hunger, appetite and satiety signals function.
Contrast
mind and body hunger.
Contrast
internal and external appetite cues.
List
10 reasons to give up dieting.
Describe
and list five benefits of conscious eating.
Contrast
exercise and active living.
Name
and refute three myths about the nutrition needs of teenage athletes.
Describe
four critical thinking and assertive problem solving techniques.
List
10 ways teens can counter the pressures to diet. |
APPLICATIONS
- Good first stage to becoming
a facilitator of the Teens & Diets: No Weigh program
- Earn continuing education points
while building on nondiet skills.
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