Study Guide & Book: Why You Eat What You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship With Food

This continuing education activity, Why You Eat What You Eat—The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food, consists of a book of the same title by Rachel Herz and this study guide. This activity is designed to help you recognize the sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors that influence your client’s eating habits so that you can more effectively impact the quality of their lives. It is also designed to help you earn 24 continuing education credits for dietetics (CDR CPEU).

Learning Objectives

After completing this activity, nutrition professionals will better be able to:: 

  1. Explain how sensory, psychological, neuroscientific, and physiological factors influence eating habits.
  2. Explain the four basic tastes and how they can be manipulated and enhanced.
  3. Recommend foods that can act as “pain relievers.”
  4. Explain how the environment impacts how much clients eat.
  5. Recommend how clients can decrease their intake of sweet, fatty and salty foods.

Additional Information

CDR Activity Type: 
102
CPE Level: 
2
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 24.00 CDR
Course opens: 
06/24/2024
Course expires: 
06/23/2027
Cost:
$210.95
Rating: 
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Yvette Perrier Quantz, RDN, LDN, is a passionate dietitian and creative nutrition entrepreneur who’s been blazing her path in the nutrition and wellness industry since 2003. She is the founder of Foodspiration® and Customized Nutrition Newsletters where she creates educational and inspirational resources for other health and wellness professionals to connect, educate, and inspire their clients and community. A prolific blogger on nutrition, health, and elevated living, she is also the author of: The Little Black Book of Foodspirations®, and Prayers and Petitions for My Cancer Warrior. She received her B.S. in Kinesiology from Louisiana State University in 2001, went on to study dietetics and nutrition at Nicholls State University, and completed her Dietetic Internship at Winthrop University in 2003.


 

Yvette Perrier Quantz, RDN, CSSD, LDN, faculty for this activity, has no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

The planners for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

An “ineligible company” includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company (publisher of Wolf Rinke Associates) is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).


RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner’s discretion.

Available Credit

  • 24.00 CDR

Price

Cost:
$210.95
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This continuing education activity includes a hard copy of the associated book and the accompanying study guide.