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Welcome to the Beef Nutrition Education Hub! Available courses
- Illuminate the nutrition-related health challenges affecting adolescents, as well as the potential public health impact of their nutrient deficiencies.
- Address societal and behavioral factors affecting adolescents’ dietary choices and preferences.
- Demonstrate the need for balanced dietary patterns to address the unique nutritional needs (and gaps) of adolescents.
- Identify research needs and opportunities to better support evidence-based dietary guidance to effectively improve the health and wellbeing of adolescents.
- Determine average total beef intake and assess the relationship between beef consumption and nutrient intake and adequacy in male and female adolescents, 14-18 years of age.
- Compare nutrient intake and adequacy differences between adolescent beef consumers and non-beef consumers using data from NHANES 2001-2018.
Every bite counts, from our first 1,000 days of life and throughout our lifetime. Experts from the American Academy of Pediatrics, Women, Infants and Children's (WIC) and now for the first time ever, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, recommend introducing babies to solid foods, like beef, as a complementary first food to ensure they get vital nutrients to optimize growth and development. This practice also provides babies with the opportunity to explore new tastes, textures and colors, while teaching them to enjoy food from the start. Additionally, the Guidelines emphasize that as it's never too early to focus on nutrition, it's also never too late to improve one's eating pattern. Adults in their 20's, 40's, 80's, and beyond can benefit from focusing on vital nutrients in their everyday food choices to support healthy living and aging while reducing the risk of chronic disease across the lifespan.
In this unique webinar, plus cooking demo, chef and registered dietitians, Abbie Gellman, MS, RDN, CDN, and Julie Lopez, RD, will edu-tain you with recipe ideas, tips, and tricks to incorporate more nutrient-dense food choices in your kitchen with practical application strategies for clients/patients/caregivers.
- Identify key nutrients and needed through every stage of life and how to incorporate top food sources into a healthy eating pattern.
- Gain practical tips, tricks, and ideas to share with clients, patients, and caregivers to optimize kitchen confidence.
- Apply culinary applications and how to adapt nutrient-rich solid foods to fit every life stage.
Now more than ever, sustainable eating and farming practices are on the minds of healthcare professionals as they share nutrition recommendations and patients/clients when pondering everyday food choices. As a healthcare professional engaging in this type of conversation, it's critical to be armed with the latest research to effectively guide patients and clients on how to shop for and consume sustainable foods. Similarly, having a real-world understanding of what farm life looks like and the measures taken by farmers and ranchers to protect the environment is also vital.
In this one-of-a-kind webinar, featuring a live virtual farm tour, registered dietitian nutritionist and Oklahoma beef rancher, Sheri Glazier MS, RD/LD and PA beef producer, Amy Hess, will present a deep dive on sustainable nutrition and sustainability efforts in practice on their family farms. These experts will also share tools and practical messages for healthcare professionals to communicate to patients, clients and the general public.
- Explore sustainable eating patterns and examine the role of healthcare providers when educating patients, clients and the general public.
- Understand on-farm sustainability practices as it relates to beef production.
- Gain practical tips and resources to share with patients, clients and general public to help them make more sustainable food choices.
In 2019, 73 million Americans - about 1 in 5 - were under age 18. This important population has unique nutrition needs that differ from adults, thanks to their growing bodies and increased demands. The latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans included nutritional guidance for infants, children, and adolescents for the first time, reinforcing how vital good nutrition is during these stages of rapid growth and development and providing a compass for practitioners to best care for this younger generation. In this webinar, registered dietitian nutritionist and author, Lauren Manaker, MS, RDN, LDN, CLEC, will shed light on the most recent guidelines, uncover key nutrients for these stages, and arm healthcare providers with practical tips and messages to communicate to patients/caregivers.
- Explore the 2020 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and learn how they pertain to the younger generation.
- Identify key nutrients needed from infancy through adolescence and how to incorporate food sources of them into a daily eating pattern.
- Gain practical tips and resources to share with parents/caregivers to optimize nutrition intake during these stages of rapid growth and development.
While the current public health spotlight focuses on the first 1,000 days of life, evidence suggests the first 1,000 weeks lay the foundation for lifelong health and resiliency. Adolescents are at greater risk of dietary inadequacy than any other age group due to the difference in food intake versus recommendations during the period of rapid growth and development they experience at the onset of puberty. In addition to the nutrients of public health concern, teen girls, specifically ages 14-18, exhibit low intakes of vital nutrients- Iron, phosphorus, magnesium, choline, folate, and vitamins B6 and B12- as highlighted by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Compounded by influential societal factors that influence eating behaviors, including social media use, peer pressure, and the pursuit of independence, today’s teen girls are facing a nutrition crisis.
This webinar will review the research on the wide range of nutritional risks and behaviors surrounding adolescent food choices, spotlighting why adolescent girls warrant special attention. Join registered dietitian nutritionists, Jill Castle, MS, RDN, and Lauren Manaker, MS, RDN, LD, CLEC, CPT, and health psychologist Charlotte Markey, PhD, as they review current intake patterns and consumption trends, and outline evidence-based solutions for how health-care providers can help patients and clients grow up healthy and strong.
- Identify common female adolescent nutrient deficiencies
- Describe the potential impact adolescent nutritional inadequacies may have on lifelong and intergenerational health
- Identify evidence-based nutritional strategies to support holistic adolescent health, encompassing physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing
Childhood is a critical time to prioritize balanced nutrition due to its essential role in supporting healthy growth and development. However, nutrient deficiencies are alarmingly common during this life stage - the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans highlights the low diet quality scores of American children and adolescents, many of whom are not getting enough high-quality protein, iron, zinc, choline, and vitamins B6 and B12. Incorporating beef as a flavorful component of plant-forward school meals can help close these nutrient gaps, help model healthy eating patterns, and help to nourish American school children - supporting their growth, development, and overall good health. Ultimately, with this strong foundation, American school children and adolescents will be more enabled to reach their full potential.
School nutrition professionals are faced with everyday challenges to providing affordable and versatile healthy dietary choices that the children and adolescents they serve will eat. Beef is a nutrient dense, flavorful and familiar food that can increase nutrient quality of school meals and may encourage the consumption of other healthy foods including whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. Learn innovative and simple opportunities for including beef on your plant-forward school menu.
Childhood is a critical time to prioritize balanced nutrition due to its essential role in supporting healthy growth and development. However, nutrient deficiencies are alarmingly common during this life stage - the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans highlights the low diet quality scores of American children and adolescents, many of whom are not getting enough high-quality protein, iron, zinc, choline, and vitamins B6 and B12. Incorporating beef as a flavorful component of plant-forward school meals can help close these nutrient gaps, help model healthy eating patterns, and help to nourish American school children - supporting their growth, development, and overall good health. Ultimately, with this strong foundation, American school children and adolescents will be more enabled to reach their full potential.
School nutrition professionals are faced with everyday challenges to providing affordable and versatile healthy dietary choices that the children and adolescents they serve will eat. Beef is a nutrient dense, flavorful and familiar food that can increase nutrient quality of school meals and may encourage the consumption of other healthy foods including whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. Learn innovative and simple opportunities for including beef on your plant-forward school menu.
- Examine the evolution of a leaner beef supply and the nutritional contribution of beef to healthy dietary patterns within the school age and adolescent populations.
- Address perceptions surrounding beef production and its nutritional value to providing a foundation for healthy dietary patterns.
- Discuss culinary opportunities for beef in school food service that can help strengthen the nutritional quality of school meals while also addressing various challenges faced within school food service operations.
- Nutrition-1000: General nutrition (1300)
- Operations-2000: Food Production (2100), Purchasing/Procurement (2400), Food Safety and HACCP (2600)
- Understand the functional role of macronutrients for different types of athletes based on goals, specifically related to energy and recovery.
- Articulate impact of external factors like hydration, sleep and stress on performance nutrition principles like recovery.
- Translate performance nutrition principles into clear and effective practical application for clients and athletes.
- Identify the three core dimensions of sustainable healthy diets and describe, broadly, the elements encompassed within each dimension.
- Describe food and nutrition insecurity – what it is, who it impacts, where and why it exists and how registered dietitians can play a role.
- Develop an understanding and appreciation for the concept of tradeoffs in the context of the current food environment and as they relate to sustainable, healthy diet discussion.
- Describe animal source food’s role in sustainable healthy diets including nutrient density and nutrient profile and role in sustainable, healthy diets.
- Identify critical nutrient gaps that exist during key life stages of rapid growth and development
- Examine beef's nutrient profile as an animal source food to support healthy dietary patterns from infancy/toddlerhood through adolescence
- Develop nutrition recommendations to close nutrients gaps and optimize healthy growth and development
- Describe the evidence–based markers of strength and the scientific research on their utility
- Evaluate and select appropriate strength assessments to measure health status throughout the lifespan
- Develop nutrition recommendations to optimize markers of strength, including specific foods and nutrients to include or increase in one's dietary pattern
- Examine the evidence on meat-eating as one of the first major evolutionary changes among the earliest humans
- Identify ways in which meat-eating may have provided humans with developmental advantages, including the impact of specific nutrients
- Understand the cultural significance of meat-eating and implications for nutrition counseling
- Address common concerns and challenges that accompany the aging process.
- Understand evidence-based research supporting the role of nutrition and physical activity for optimizing strength outcomes in middle-aged adults.
- Translate the research into practical application – applying physical activity and nutrition guidelines such as strength training and inclusion of high-quality protein foods in a healthy dietary pattern – to support healthy aging.
- Verbalize common concerns around the role of animal agriculture in a sustainable diet/food supply.
- Identify ways in which the beef farmer and rancher community meets the growing global protein demand while engaging in sustainable production practices.
- Communicate evidence on cattle’s carbon footprint and the environmental impact of beef production.
- Define the role of the diet, including high-quality protein, in building and repairing muscle, and nourishing a healthy brain at every life stage.
- Translate evidence-based research on the role of high-quality protein in supporting improved body composition and physical and mental strength.
- Share practical application tips with peers and clients, including physical activity tips and nutrition information on how to include high-quality protein foods in a healthy dietary pattern.