The Coca-Cola Company Beverage Institute for Health & Wellness serves as a resource for health professionals, teachers, coaches and others in need of science-based information about beverages, their ingredients, and their role in health and active lifestyles.
In these archives of prior live educational programs for health professionals, recognized experts in fields such as nutrition, health, weight management, food science, and physical activity discuss current research and share their knowledge about current topics of professional interest.
Intuitive Eating: Creating a Healthy Relationship with Food, Mind and Body
Join Intuitive Eating pioneer, Evelyn Tribole, MS, RD, to explore the research and principals behind this "non-dieting" approach. Intuitive Eating teaches people to create a healthy relationship with food, mind and body, distinguish between physical and emotional feelings, respond to inner body cues, and experience satisfying eating.
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Addressing Questions about Aspartame and Stevia Sweeteners: Facts Health Professionals Need to Know
For decades, the nonnutritive sweetener aspartame has been safely consumed by millions of people worldwide. And yet aspartame’s safety and effects on body weight, appetite and food intake continue to be questioned. On the other hand, new sweeteners made from the stevia plant are noted for being “natural” and stevia itself is used as a dietary supplement in some countries.
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A Nutritional Odyssey: From Famine to Feast - The Role of Science and Technology in a Healthy Diet
Join Dr. Fergus M. Clydesdale, internationally-recognized food scientist and Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Food Science Policy Alliance, Department of Food Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, as he examines the factors currently driving negative perceptions of food technology, reviews the sometimes-overlooked advantages of food processing in providing safe, economical and nutritious foods, discusses the history and benefits of nutrient fortification and the benefits of portion-controlled processed foods as a weight management tool.
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Promoting Healthy Bones: Sorting Out the Science
According to the International Osteoporosis Foundation, the incidence of hip fractures increased nearly 25% worldwide between 1990 and 2000. By 2050, the worldwide incidence of hip fracture is projected to increase by an alarming 240% in women and 310% in men. In addition, in women over 45 years of age, osteoporosis accounts for more days spent in the hospital than many other diseases including diabetes, myocardial infarction and breast cancer.
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Sit Less, Move More! Understanding Inactivity Physiology Plus Strategies to Help Patients Adopt Healthier Behaviors
This course describes the exciting news emerging from the young and rapidly growing field of "inactivity physiology," which is taking aim at improving health in a sedentary society and targeting some of the most common diseases caused by sedentary lifestyles. Inactivity physiology represents a paradigm shift for how we think about how lifestyle causes disease. Simply put, the inactivity physiology paradigm says that "too little exercise" is not the same as "too much sitting" (physical inactivity) and that too much sitting has very potent effects on the body contributing to the most common diseases.
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Hydration and Physical Activity: Risks, Challenges, and Benefits
Remaining well hydrated during physical activity - especially activities in warm environments - maintains important physiological functions, reduces the perception of effort, and increases exercise capacity. Consuming too little or too much fluid during physical activity compromises physiological function and jeopardizes health. In this program, two of the world's leading experts in sports nutrition and hydration, Dr. Ronald Maughan and Dr. Bob Murray, will review the key elements related to the science of hydration and physical activity with special emphasis on the benefits of remaining properly hydrated and the risks of drinking too little or too much.
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Caring for a Woman’s Heart: Setting the Stage for Family Health
Join JoAnne M. Foody, M.D., Kathy Berra and moderator Catherine Christie , PhD, RD, for this informative and thought-provoking presentation on women and cardiovascular health. Program topics include a discussion of the important role that women play in influencing the heart health of their family and community, strategies to assess and stratify women into high risk, at risk, and optimal risk categories for cardiovascular disease, and evidence-based approaches to cardiovascular disease prevention for patients with hypertension, lipid abnormalities, and diabetes. Both presentations stress the importance of lifestyle approaches to the prevention of cardiovascular disease in women. The new Women and Heart Disease Guidelines from the American Heart Association (released February 14, 2011) are also discussed, with a focus on implications for patient care.
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Children’s Dietary Recommendations: When Urban Myths, Opinions, Parental Perceptions & Evidence Collide
Urban myths about food ingredients abound -- and raise concern among parents about their children's health. Fluoride, sugar, artificial colors and nonnutritive sweeteners are food ingredients that have been carefully examined for their effects on children's health, growth and development. Yet, parents' perceptions of their safety and effectiveness are often at odds with recommendations regarding their use. In this program,
Dr. Ronald Kleinman of Massachusetts General Hospital for Children and Harvard Medical School explores common misconceptions about these food ingredients, the scientific evidence for recommendations about their use with children, and communication strategies to guide discussions with parents.
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Non-Nutritive Sweeteners: Separating Sense from Non-Science
The safety and efficacy of non-nutritive sweeteners are backed by a solid body of evidence. Yet, controversy about these ingredients is often communicated in the media and on the Internet. In this lively presentation,, Dr. Joe Schwarcz, Director of McGill University’s Office for Science and Society provides the historical perspective and scientific data health professionals need to help set the record straight with clients and patients.
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Motivational Interviewing in Action: Skills & Tools to Enhance Change in Physical Activity Behavior
In this program, Julie Schwartz, MS, RD, CSSD, LD, ACSM-HFS, and Lola Coke, PhD, APRN-BC, ACNS, FAHA, FPCNA, provide a lively presentation on the principles of motivational interviewing and other behavior change tools. Every healthcare professional needs a "toolkit" of different behavior change strategies to deal with diverse populations of patients.
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Active Healthy Lifestyle Pyramid for Children and Adolescents
In this program, Dr. Marcella Gonzales-Gross discusses the research behind a new healthy lifestyle pyramid developed by Dr. Gonzales-Gross and colleagues as a teaching tool for children and adolescents in Spain. This pioneering initiative has enabled an innovative tool to be created that includes all the aspects of nutrition and hydration, physical activity, hygiene and the need to avoid improper habits such as the consumption of any kind of alcohol or tobacco, in order to ward off future health problems from early ages and help enhance quality of life.
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Understanding Americans’ Approach to Weight Management: The Role of Low-Calorie Sweeteners
In this program, Dr. Adam Drewnowski, Director of the Center for Public Health Nutrition and Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Washington, reviews the latest science and clinical research on low- and no-calorie sweeteners and their impact on diet and weight management. Robyn Flipse, a registered dietitian and cultural anthropologist translates this science into practical applications for helping consumers manage their weight and overall health appropriately and effectively.
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Exercise is Medicine: Understanding the Evidence
Physical inactivity has an astonishing breadth of harmful health effects and the association between an inactive and unfit way of life persists in virtually every subgroup of the population. As the costs associated with such diseases have soared, it is clear that physical inactivity is one of the major public health problems of our time. In this program, Dr. Robert E. Sallis, chairman for the Exercise is Medicine initiative and immediate past- president of the American College of Sports Medicine, discusses the growing evidence supporting the health benefits of physical activity and the role of health professionals in Exercise is Medicine (EIM).
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Mindset: A New Strategy for Health Behavior Change
Does it seem as though your patients know what they need to do to improve their health but still do not do it? In this program, one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation, Stanford University psychology professor Dr. Carol S. Dweck, author of MindSet, discusses how helping individual’s identify and change their Mindset can be of benefit in the health behavior change process. Dr. Lola Coke, a nurse and motivational interviewing expert, discusses how the Mindset approach fits in with current lifestyle behavior theories and models and how to use these strategies to promote effective behavior change.
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Translating Epidemiology into Sound Public Health Advice
Do you struggle with what to say when asked about findings from nutritional epidemiological studies? In this program, Dr. Douglas Weed, one of the country’s leading physician epidemiologist, discusses key differences between the scientific literature and how the media communicates nutritional epidemiological data to the lay public. Dr. Weed explores effective communication techniques for use with your patients regarding the risks/benefits of “weak” associations, including what can and cannot be said about association, causation, and risk; and what recommendations (dietary, public health, policy) should and should not be made.
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Taking Women’s Health to Heart
In this program, leading medical and nutrition experts Dr. John Bisagnano, Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Clinical Preventive Cardiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Dr.Lynn Braun, a nurse practitioner in the Rush University Medical Center Preventive Cardiology Center and the Heart Center for Women, and registered dietitian Roberta Anding, a nationally recognized educator and nutrition expert, provide an update on women and heart health, including the latest research and trends and effective nutrition and lifestyle strategies that help your female patients and clients improve their heart health.
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Move It! - Research Updates from the Activity Side of the Energy Balance Equation - Plus Strategies That Get Your Clients off the Couch
In this program, physical activity and health researchers Dr. Steven Blair and Dr. Timothy Church discuss the “fit versus fat” debate, the difference between exercise and physical activity, and research related to the role of fitness in weight loss/weight management and quality of life issues, heart disease mortality, depression and cancer. They also discuss the growing support for the role of physical activity in promoting healthful aging and preventing serious diseases, including heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, plus effective strategies for motivating clients to increase physical activity in their daily lives.
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Straight Facts about Aspartame & Other Low-Calorie Sweeteners
In this program, Harvard University obesity expert, Dr. George L. Blackburn, addresses the impact of low- and no-calorie sweeteners on appetite and food intake as well as their usefulness in weight management. Food safety expert, Dr. Bernadene Magnuson discusses recently published safety findings from an expert review panel on aspartame.
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