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Upon successful completion of this learning activity, you will be able to:

• Articulate and discuss the current status of the obesity epidemic.
  
• Identify national trends underlying the obesity epidemic.
  
• Assess an individual's weight status.
• Explain societal, cultural and psychological factors that influence eating and body weight.
  
• Evaluate the underlying principles, philosophy and scientific literature on the practices of yoga and meditation, and how these practices may aid behavior change and weight management.
  
• Construct and prescribe individual weight management plans combining diet and yoga.
  
• Employ various behavior change theories and provide examples.
  
• Assess and incorporate an individual's readiness to change into weight management planning.
  
• Perform exercises to enhance body awareness.
  
• Demonstrate exercises to explore lifestyle moderation.
  
• Use exercises to explore relationships.
  
• Perform exercises to explore a process of renewal.

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Yoga and Meditation: Tools for Weight Management, Third Edition

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Objectives

Upon successful completion of this learning activity, you will be able to:

• Articulate and discuss the current status of the obesity epidemic.
  
• Identify national trends underlying the obesity epidemic.
  
• Assess an individual’s weight status.
  
• Explain societal, cultural and psychological factors that influence eating and body weight.
  
• Evaluate the underlying principles, philosophy and scientific literature on the practices of yoga and meditation, and how these practices may aid behavior change and weight management.
  
• Describe aspects of yoga and yoga teaching styles that may undermine healthy weight and body image, and elements of yoga practices or programs that foster healthy relationships with food and body image.
  
• Describe the field of yoga therapy including credentialing for nutrition and dietetics practitioners.
  
• Construct individual weight management plans combining diet and yoga.
  
• Employ various behavior change theories and provide examples.
  
• Assess and incorporate an individual’s readiness to change into weight management planning.
  
• Perform yoga-based exercises to enhance body awareness.
  
• Demonstrate exercises to explore moderation in eating and lifestyle.
  
• Use exercises to explore relationships.
  
• Perform exercises to explore a process of renewal.

About the Author

Annie Kay, MS, RDN, LDN, E-RYT500, C-IAYT, is a leading integrative registered dietitian, registered yoga teacher, and certified yoga therapist, author, educator, and speaker. She is the former Lead Nutritionist at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in Stockbridge, MA, the largest yoga center in the USA. Annie received a BS in Nutritional Biochemistry from Cornell University, an MS in Nutrition Communications from Boston University, maintains yoga teacher registration through Yoga Alliance and yoga therapy certification through the International Association of Yoga Therapy. She is the former director of the Osteoporosis Awareness Program, a national model chronic disease prevention program at the MA Department of Public Health and was an outpatient dietitian at the then Boston City Hospital specializing in nutrition for cancer, HIV/AIDS, prenatal care, and chronic disease prevention.
Annie was a manager of education for the Nutritional Restart Center, a groundbreaking clinic serving individuals with severe malabsorptive disorders, and led public health nutrition programs on Nantucket Island, MA.
She is the author of Every Bite Is Divine, a finalist for the Nautilus Award for books on positive social change, a finalist for a Ben Franklin Award, and for USA Best Books. She co-authored Yoga & Diabetes for the American Diabetes Association. Ms. Kay has written for national publications such as Cooking Light Magazine and Yahoo.com and hosts a growing online community at www.anniebkay.com. She speaks widely on integrative chronic disease prevention and treatment and conducts workshops for practitioners and professionals on combining yoga and nutrition.
Annie Kay lives in the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts with her husband Craig. She is a hiker, yogini, chef, poet, knitter, and gardener.

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