Certificate in Plant Based Nutrition

Description

Plant-Based Nutrition represents a forward-looking view of nutrition that Dr. T. Colin Campbell has developed during his more than 40 years experience in experimental research and 20 years in public policy. This certificate program presents a different paradigm, considering the topic of nutrition both as a science and as a component of the practice of medicine. It is an expansion of NS 200, a successful Cornell course approved by the Department of Nutritional Science and offered for 7 years. This new online series offers the best of Dr. Campbell’s work, incorporating material from his best selling book, The China Study, as well as the latest information from leading experts in the field.

This three-course certificate program was designed to introduce the general public and medical professionals to the vastly underestimated ability of properly executed nutrition to maintain health and prevent disease.

The first course in the series, Nutrition Fundamentals, identifies the true causes of degenerative disease - poor dietary practices - and offers scientifically based solutions to reduce disease risk. The second course, Diseases of Affluence, presents solutions to the crisis facing America’s health care system and a dietary solution for your own optimal health. The final course, Principles in Practice, demonstrates practical applications of plant-based nutrition in a variety of contexts illustrating the powerful effects of a whole food, plant-based diet on our society and the positive impact its acceptance could have on our future.

Together, these courses present a powerful science-based approach to nutrition that can dramatically reduce your risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity and improve your quality of life.

Who Should Enroll in This Certificate?

This certificate program is essential to health care professionals (doctors, nurses, chiropractors, dietitians, nutritionists), patients, teachers, parents and anyone in the general public with an interest in reaching optimal health and dietary excellence. This certificate is available for 19 Continuing Medical Education Credits (CMEs) for an additional $125 USD.

Requirements

The T. Colin Campbell does require for these courses to be taken in sequential order.

Enrollment

To register, contact an Enrollment Counselor at info@ecornell.com or 1-866-326-7635 (+1-607-330-3200 from outside the United States).

Courses in this Certificate

• Nutrition Fundamentals

  • Overall health and risk for degenerative disease are inextricably linked to dietary practices. This course teaches the fundamentals of what comprises a whole-food, plant-based diet from the leading expert in the field, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D.

    Topics covered include the state of health and healthcare in the United States, nutrient fundamentals, a new view on protein and fat, and the results from the China Project, the most comprehensive study to date of the link between diet and disease, directed by Dr. Campbell. This course introduces the power of an optimal diet in terms of disease prevention and risk reduction.

    Course Format

    This course is delivered online and is self-paced. An instructor leads the online discussions, grades any course projects, and is available to answer specific questions about the course content.

    This course contains the following topics:

    Nutrition Fundamentals

    • State of Health
    • Protein, A Revered Nutrient
    • The China Project
    • Nutrient Fundamentals I
    • Nutrient Fundamentals II
    • Fat, A Less Revered Nutrient

    
    
    Benefits to the Learner
    Participants who complete this course will be able to:

    • Identify a powerful solution to the crisis in America’s healthcare system
    • Describe the largest study ever done on diet and disease
    • Evaluate and explain the scientific basis for plant-based nutrition
    
    
• Diseases of Affluence

  • The failure of modern medicine to address chronic disease is a national scandal. Numbers are continually manipulated to make us feel like we are winning the war on cancer and beating diabetes. Billions are being spent on reductionist research and treating the symptoms. The reality is we are not making progress with conventional treatments. And people are suffering and dying needlessly by the millions.

    Plant-based nutrition is the most powerful medical intervention we have available today. No other method offered by modern medicine has such a broad and profound effect.

    This course teaches the fundamentals of reversing disease with a whole-food, plant-based diet from the leading expert, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. Topics covered include the Calories, Obesity, and Diabetes, The Pleasure Trap, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Diet and Cancer, Chronic Diseases, and Principles of Nutritional Health. This course introduces the power of an optimal diet to reverse disease.

    Course Format

    This course is delivered online and is self-paced. An instructor leads the online discussions, grades any course projects, and is available to answer specific questions about the course content.

    
    
    Benefits to the Learner
    Participants who complete this course will be able to:

    • Understand the depth and breadth of scientific evidence implicating diet in the development of a wide variety of diseases, some subtle some fatal
    • Describe the simple diet and lifestyle solution that could vastly improve public health and eradicate our nation’s leading killers
    • Explain why using this information to improve your health is complicated by biological conditioning and how to avoid the trap
    
    
• Principles in Practice

  • With a strong foundation established in the science of plant-based nutrition, students are ready for the next step of understanding how plant-based nutrition can be applied in our world. Principles in Practice presents students with plant-based nutrition’s application in key aspects of society. From the public schools to corporations to elite athletics, plant-based nutrition is making a splash. Get answers to your questions on: nutrition in the public school system and in the medical clinic, supplements,label reading and interpreting. Learn more about animal agriculture and environmental concerns. Gain insight on dietary practices in Corporate Wellness Programs and plant based diets for elite athletes. See what influences development and promotion of diet and health policy.

    Course Format

    This course is delivered online and is self-paced. An instructor leads the online discussions, grades any course projects, and is available to answer specific questions about the course content.

    This course contains the following topics:

    Nutrition Principles in Practice

    • Nutrition in the Public School System
    • Nutrition in the Medical Clinic
    • What About Supplements
    • Label Reading
    • Food Production and Environmental Concerns
    • Dietary Practices in Corporate Wellness Programs
    • Plant Based Diet and Elite Athletes
    • Development and Promotion of Diet and Health Policy

    
    
    Benefits to the Learner
    Participants who complete this course will be able to:

    • Explain how the same plant-based diet benefits kids, the environment, athletes, medical care, businesses, individual health and public policy
    • Understand some key social, institutional, and practical obstacles to wide-spread acceptance of plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine
    • Navigate common diet and health care misconceptions to make powerful personal choices relating to health
    • Contribute effectively to the public discourse on diet, health care and nutrition
    
    

Accreditation

Participants who successfully complete all three courses in this certificate series will receive a Certificate in Plant Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Foundation and eCornell.

CME credits

If you plan to enroll in the Certificate Program for Plant-Based Nutrition and receive Continuing Medical Education credits (CMEs), there is a $125 fee to cover tracking, post-surveying, and reporting to the Foundation for Care Management, the CME accrediting body.

Pre- and post-testing is also required. Typically, physicians, nurses, or pharmacists need CME credit, but there may be other health care practitioners who are able to use these CME credits.

• 19 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM
• 19 Nursing Contact Hours
• 19 Hours Pharmacy CE

Official accreditation statement from FCM

CEU and CECH credits (no additional fee)

• 1.8 CEUs (Continuing Education Units)
• 19 CECHs (Continuing Education Contact Hours for certified health education specialists as credentialed by the National Commission for Health Credentialing Inc. - www.ncech.org)