Our longtime theme "The Future of Healthcare Begins with Nutrition" and our strong focus on Lifestyle Medicine led to the following innovative P-POD curriculum, reviewed and updated in two-year cycles.  We seek to meet the extremely high standard of representing EACH one of the following important subject areas in one way or another at EACH two-day or longer P-POD Conference:
 

• Promoting healthful behaviors at the community-program and primary-care levels

• Cancer prevention and survivorship

• Cardiovascular health and disease

• Diabetes prevention, remission or reversal

• Exercise physiology, and movement in daily lifestyle

• Health equity, vulnerable populations, and access disparities for care and nutritious-food

• Impact on society of the plant-based and animal-based proportions of food produced and eaten

• Kidney health and chronic kidney disease

• Mental and brain health

• Microbiota/gut health and dysbiosis;  gut-brain axis;  immune homeostasis and autoimmunity

• Pediatrics

• Plant-based nutrition as a practical resource in chronic disease prevention/reversal

• Practitioners' own self-care vs. burnout and chronic disease risks

• Restorative (sleep, social connection) and degrading (chronic stress, risky substances) lifestyle factors

• Women's health

Note that Lifestyle Medicine's Six "Pillars" are embedded throughout the above:  healthful eating of whole plant-based food;  beneficial physical activity;  strategies to manage stress;  forming and maintaining relationships;  improving sleep;  avoiding risky substances.

We have also covered the following complex subject matter spanning several Core Topics:  planetary health and degradation, the role of animal agriculture in global warming and environmental damage, and these harms' disparate effects upon marginalized and vulnerable populations.