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Activity Steps

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Description

Method of Participation in the Learning Process/Evaluation Method

Successful completion of this activity includes reading the entire article and successfully completing the post-quiz and an evaluation form.

Getting the Most out of the Activity

As you prepare to participate in this activity, please reflect on your practice and your patients and identify clinical challenges you hope to have addressed.

While participating in the training, identify ways you can use newly acquired knowledge, strategies, and skills to enhance patient outcomes and your own professional development.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education activity you will be able to:

  1. Evaluate the evidence that supports meal timing as a weight loss strategy.
  2. Explain potential benefits of regular breakfast consumption for weight loss.
  3. Identify metabolic disturbances that occur during sleep restriction.
  4. Discuss potential benefits and risks of sleep interventions to promote weight loss.
  5. Evaluate strengths and limitations of a study suggesting that BMI in the overweight range is protective against mortality.
  6. Counsel patients regarding the role of obesity as a prognostic indicator for mortality.
  7. Identify gaps in the discussion of effective obesity treatments in a recent review article and their possible link to financial conflicts of interest.

Disclosures

Mr. Lomangino has disclosed that he is a consultant to the Informed Medical Decisions Foundation and the American Association of Diabetes Educators.

Price: $49.00

Credits:

  • CDR 1.0 CPEU
  • FCDN 1.0 CH

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR), provider number LI001. Registered dietitians (RDs) will receive 1.0 continuing professional education units (CPEUs) for successful completion of this program/material, CPE Level 2.

LWW is approved as a provider of continuing education for the Florida Council for Dietetics and Nutrition.

Planner
Professions: Other Health Professional
Test Code: CNI0413
Published: April 2013
Expires: 1/1/2026
Sources: Clinical Nutrition Insight
Required Passing Score: 7/10 (70%)
Authors: Kevin Lomangino
Categories: Diabetes & Endocrine , Nutrition
Specialties: Diabetes, Endocrinology, Family Medicine
Topics: Body Mass Index (BMI) , Nutrition , Obesity , Sleep Disorders , Weight Loss