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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:
 

  • 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.

Sept. 29 + Oct. 6, 2024 Speakers At-a-glance

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Sept. 29 & Oct. 6 Virtual Summit Agendas in 2 Images Below

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Objectives

General Learning Objectives for Conferences Overall

The participant will be able to:

**Identify dietary and other lifestyle-based risk factors associated with development or progression of major chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes or chronic kidney disease.

**Describe evidence for specific protective mechanisms and health benefits that may be provided at cellular, individual and global levels via plant-based nutrition and allied lifestyle measures.

**Discuss how nutritional advisement emphasizing plant-based approaches may be integrated into clinical practice, thus facilitating positive, measurable and cost effective clinical outcomes for various preventable chronic diseases.

**Identify factors that influence dietary and other lifestyle choices, or that discourage behavior change, as well as strategies and techniques for promoting sustainable nutritional advancement in individuals and communities.

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