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Certificate in Plant Based Nutrition

Certificate ID: TCCC01
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.

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 Take 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

Requirements

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

Enrollment

Price: $1065.00
(This price is good as of 09/02/2010.)

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To register, click 'Enroll Now' at right, or 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


  • 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
      • Nutrition in the Medical Clinic
      • What About Supplements?
      • Label Reading
      • Animal Agriculture and Environmental Concerns
      • Dietary Practices in Corporate Wellness Programs
      • Plant Based Diet and Elite Athletes
      • 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.

    Technical Requirements

    With all eCornell courses, access is easy. Participants only need a computer and an Internet connection. To view specific technology requirements, visit our Technology Requirements page.


     
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