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Diseases of Affluence

Course ID: TCC502
This course offers a solution to the crisis in America's health care system. It also provides a strong scientific foundation for your study of dietary excellence and optimal health.

Description

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.

Who Should Take This Course?

This course 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.

Certificate Information

This course can be applied toward the following certificate:
 

• Certificate in Plant Based Nutrition

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.

  Authoring Faculty

  Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus

  Sponsoring School

  This course is created in partnership with the T. Colin Campbell Foundation

  Total Learning Time

  Approximately six hours over a period of two weeks.

  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.

  Enrollment

  Price: $395.00
  (This price is good as of 09/02/2010.)
  
  
  Enroll Now
  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).
  Next 3 Course available dates are:
  September 1, 2010
  September 15, 2010
  September 29, 2010
  
  Click 'Enroll Now' to see available dates beyond September 29, 2010.

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  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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