NUTRITION & LIFESTYLE MEDICINE CONFERENCES
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Core Topic Areas
P-POD's Unique Curriculum, Covered at All Full Conferences
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:
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Promoting healthful behaviors at the community-program and primary-care levels
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Cancer prevention and survivorship
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Cardiovascular health and disease
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Diabetes prevention, remission or reversal
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Exercise physiology, and movement in daily lifestyle
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Health equity, vulnerable populations, and access disparities for care and nutritious-food
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Impact on society of the plant-based and animal-based proportions of food produced and eaten
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Kidney health and chronic kidney disease
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Mental and brain health
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Microbiota/gut health and dysbiosis; gut-brain axis; immune homeostasis and autoimmunity
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Pediatrics
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Plant-based nutrition as a practical resource in chronic disease prevention/reversal
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Practitioners' own self-care vs. burnout and chronic disease risks
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Restorative (sleep, social connection) and degrading (chronic stress, risky substances) lifestyle factors
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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.