Nutrition and Eating and Weight Disorders

Course Objectives

• Gain an understanding of the role that hunger and satiety cues have on the development and continuation of eating disorders.
• Understand the specifics of the physiology of digestion and absorption of nutrients Identify both macronutrients and micronutrients and their importance to the body.
• Identify eating behaviors on the compulsive-eating and intuitive-eating spectrum.
• Be familiar with diagnostic criteria for common eating disorders.

What You Learn

• The registered dietician (R.D.) and eating disorders
• What to do when your client won’t see an R.D.
• Physiology, regarding the anatomy of the digestive system, macronutrients and micronutrients; absorption and metabolism
• Abnormal physiology effects, including restricting intake, bingeing and purging
• Nutritional goals for eating disorders
• Nutritional assessment of eating disorders, including a client’s medical and dieting histories; assessment of eating attitudes and beliefs; biochemical and metabolic assessments; clinical signs and symptoms; estimated needs, goals and plan of care
• Nutritional treatment issues with eating disorders such as those unique to a client, associated clinical problems, co-morbidities, and the effects of the family dynamic and society
• Intuitive eating: the non-diet approach

How You Learn

• Lecture
• In-class discussion