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Nutrition Coach fulfills multiple roles, including...
- Motivator
- Communicator 3) Nutrition architect
- Guide
- Educator 6) Protector
- Authenticator 8 Communicator
Define a nutrition coach as a motivator
- Build strong relationships with clients.
- Leverage nutrition education to increase success, reduce turnover, and maximize adherence. Nutrition coach definition: What does a nutrition architect do?
- Develop customized, evidence-based nutrition guidance for clients.
- Provide actionable, proven methods for clients to reach their nutrition goals. Nutrition coach defined: What does it mean to guide?
- Host seminars and events.
- Provide helpful recommendations for clients to navigate real world nutritional challenges. Nutrition coach defined: What does it mean to educate?
- Evaluate clients' behaviors and dietary patterns using tools and assessments.
- Provide nutritional education to clients. Nutrition coach defined: What does it mean to be a protector?
- Supply safe, comprehensive, empowering, and professional Nutrition Programs.
- Work within scope of practice. Nutrition coach defined: What does it mean to be an authenticator?
- Separate nutrition fact from fiction. Nutrition coach defined: What does it mean to be a communicator?
- Engage in successful interactions with clients.
- Perform consultations and coaching sessions face-to-face and online. What is the definition of a scope of practice? The actions, procedures, and processes that a professional is allowed to underta with the terms of the professional's license or credential. ke in keeping
A generic term for someone who provides nutritional advice or counseling. A nutritionist is not necessarily a licensed health care professional and certainly should not portray themselves as such. Nutritionists may be found working in public health organizations, schools, health and fitness centers, weight loss clinics, or in a private practice. Many states leave it up to the consumer to do their due diligence and investigate where this person received training and what credentials makes him or her qualified to provide nutritional advice. What is the difference between being licensed and being certified? What is a nutritionist? Licensing is typically provided on a state or federal level. Common prerequisites of licensing include formal education/training, a predetermined number of supervised contact hours, and successful completion of a standardized test. Most healthcare providers require licensure.
Certification is granted to a person who has participated in an educational course (either live or online) and successfully completed a standardized test: written, practical, or both. A generic term for someone who provides nutrition counseling - certification and licensing parameters are vague. What can a nutrition coach not do?
- Provide specific meal plans and daily menus. Prescribe specific supplements or recommend vitamins and/or mineral dosages.
- Promote fasting, detoxification, or other extreme nutritional practices.Suggest drastic caloric restriction.
-Prescribe diets that omit or severely restrict certain food groups. -In anyway, go against recommendations of licensed healthcare professionals. -Provide detailed nutritional plans for athletes who participate in extreme training programs (i.e.,Ironman triathletes or ultra-marathoners).
-Prescribe dietary plans for those with chronic health conditions (i.e., diabetes or heart disease). -Provide nutrition therapy to treat or prevent disease. -Provide exercise prescriptions or detailed programming (unless already certified as a personal trainer). -Furthermore, they will not and cannot treat disease. What can the nutrition coach do? -Evaluate current eating plans and provide general guidance. -Recommend the client discuss supplement use with their personal registered dietitian nutritionist, physician, or pharmacist. -Promote caloric guidelines outlined by the USDA's MyPlate, the United Kingdom's Eatwell
- Nutrition guidance
- Behavioral changes and motivation What is a trigger food? Why are they eaten? What are the likely made of? Trigger foods are those that when eaten make you crave and possibly eat more. These foods are generally eaten out of habit, not necessarily hunger. Your trigger food(s) is/(are) something you probably feel addicted to and is likely high-calorie,processed and filled with non-nutritional carbs.
When educating a client, information should be...
Highly relevant: E.g. discussions on meal prep for a family would not be relevant if the client is single and lives alone.
Based on prior experience: The client who has had countless attempts at weight loss can relate to weight loss strategies, especially if he or she is open to options and has bought into trying newthings.
Practical. E.g, the single parent with a full-time job and three children, who have a plethora ofafter-school activities, may not have time to prep food for an hour every day.
- Perceived to be important. If a client just lost a partner to a heart attack, the client may likelybe very interested in heart-healthy foods.
What is and what are the SCOFF screening questions? A basic yet reliable set of five questions that help assess whether an eating disorder exists. Those questions are "do you..."
- Make yourself SICK?
- Worry you have lost CONTROL?
- Recently lost > 14 lbs (ONE Stone) w/in 3 months?
- Believe you are FAT?
- Does FOOD dominate your life? Give an example of when a nutrition coach would be an excellent source of help for someone with diabetes? Initially, the person will meet with their personal physician or an endocrinologist, an RDN, and acertified diabetes educator (CDE). After the initial consultations and proven ability to regulate blood glucose levels, the person will be responsible for self-monitoring. This is where theNutrition Coach can be of great service in conjunction with the licensed healthcare provider.
What is an hypothesis? A proposed explanation for a problem or set of observations. What is the scientific method? The process of formulating explanations about the natural world and testing those explanationswith experiments and data.
What is and are the three components evidenced-based practice?
- The weight of the evidence from scientific research.
- Field observations
- Individual client needs and preferences What are the steps of the scientific method?
- problem
- hypothesis
- procedure
- analyze (data)
- conclusion:
discard or change hypothesis-or- continue testing data that supports the hypothesis What is hypothesis testing and what are the steps? a statistical procedure used to "accept" or "reject" the hypothesis based on sample information
- Idea
- Generate hypothesis
- Design experiment4) Acquire/analyze data
- Accept-or-
- Reject and back to (2)
What is a prediction? An expected outcome generated from an hypothesis What is a theory? A hypothesis or set of hypotheses for which a large body of high-quality evidence has been accumulated; it has withstood rigorous scrutiny through repeated testing.
can help summarize existing scientific knowledge and how it is applied. Nevertheless, it is still opinion and falls lower on the hierarchy compared to peer-reviewed primary research. What is primary research? Original research where scientists perform experiments and collect data - this is in contrast tosecondary research where scientists analyze data that has already been collected or published elsewhere. What is observational research? Research in which a researcher observes ongoing behaviors to determine correlation. This research can only establish correlations, not cause and effect. What is a confounding variable? a factor other than the independent variable that might produce an effect in an experiment What is a randomized control trial A type of scientific study/trial where participants are randomly assigned into different groups -one or more will be the intervention to be tested and one will be the control group. Groups are randomized and a control is used in an attempt to reduce potential bias in the trial.
What is external validity and what does it usually apply to? The ability to generalize the results of a study. Usually applies to Randomized Control Trials (RCTs). What are systematic reviews? Why is it "systematic?" How is this different from narrative review? Where scientists gather all research on a topic and evaluate it based on predefined criteria and rules. A systematic review tries to minimize bias by following established guidelines. This is why it is called systematic; the review was done in a systematic rather than haphazard fashion. In narrative review, where research may be gathered in a more informal fashion and the interpretation of the evidence may be subject to the bias of the author(s). What is a meta-analysis? A statistical analysis of RCTs. It is a study of studies. Scientists gather RCTs that fit predefinedcriteria. They run statistics on the group of studies to gain an idea of where the overall weight of evidence lies. What are the 8 characteristics to a scientific approach? Empirical; observable
Test-retest reliability What are the 6 types of scientific research?
- Case studies
- Surveys
- Historical research
- Cross-sectional studies
- Case-control studies
- Cohort studies What is a case-control study? a type of observationaland compared on the basis of some supposed causal attribute. study in which two existing groups differing in outcome are identified
What is a case study
- Track a single person or group of people over time
- Discuss characteristics of or events that occur to a single person or group
- Primary limitation - may not be generalizable to larger populations Observational research: What is historical research?
- Looks at events that happened in the past and uses it to make inferences about other times, including the future
Limitations:
- Information from the past may be incomplete or inaccessible
- May be subject to the biases of the researchers involved Observational studies: What are cross-sectional studies?
- Variables in a group at a specific point in time; a cross-section of people Most useful for: • Population-based surveys • To assess the prevalence of diseases in a population
Primary limitation - impossible to assess causal relationships because it's a one-time "snapshot" measurement Observational studies: What are cohort studies? Group (cohort) followed over time to determine association between an exposure and an outcome or disease
What are the "True Experimental Designs: RCTs?"
- parallel design
- Factorial design
- Crossover design RCT: define "parallel design." Researchers track two or more independent groups in parallel with each other RCT: "Factorial design" Researchers test the impact of two or more variables simultaneously, rather than isolating a single variable. RCT: Define a "crossover design" The same group of subjects are assigned to both the treatment and control groups. Each subjectacts as his/her own control.
A strength of crossover designs is that they reduce the impact of the variability between subjects(i.e., the differences in how each person responds to a particular diet).
Interventional designs: What are "quasi-experimental designs?"
Similar to RCTs, but subjects are not randomly assigned to groups
- Non-randomized control group
- Time-series What are "non-randomized control groups?" Subjects have not been randomly assigned to that group. This carries more potential for bias than a RCT, because the control group may not be equivalent to the treatment group. What is a "time series model?" Set of data points that have been collected in time order. One example is the study of climate change, where average annual air or ocean temperatures are collected in sequence over several years. What is reliability in an experiment? The consistency of a measure What is validity? The assessment of whether a tool is measuring what it is supposed to measure. What is selection bias? A sample of people under study is not representative of the larger population that scientists arelooking to make inferences about.
