Weight Issues

This book exposes the flawed logic behind using dieting for sustainable weight loss. Based upon Dr. David Ludwig’s endocrinology and weight loss research at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, readers learn how to better control hunger and retrain fat cell function.

Fully updated 3rd edition! It covers the newest evidence-based research in metabolic and bariatric surgery. Additional content includes new nutrition counseling and educational tools, reviews of more liberal diet progression, and new procedures like anastomosis, endoscopic therapies, and biliopancreatic diversion. The Academy also offers 7 CPE hours for buying the book.

This book is unique because it explores the latest fertility research for men and women! Written by Clare Fleishman, MS, RDN, author of the popular book, Globesity. This course is a comprehensive review of hundreds of evidence-based studies on fertility and how to improve it through nutrition and other lifestyle choices. Excellent book for nutrition and health counselors.

New York Times Bestseller! This book is thought provoking, fresh, and approachable. It covers the newest evidence-based research that challenges popular keto and paleo diets and their research findings. There are no guilt trips or hard lines drawn in the sand.  

Wealth of nutrition science! Strong advocate of plant-based nutrition. The author, Michael Greger, MD, maintains a huge database of nutrition studies for his website, NutritionFacts.org, and this book condenses that data into healthy eating guidelines. The book has 134 pages of references that support his recommendations.

The author, Michael Greger, MD, founder of NutritionFacts.org, condenses the most important evidence-based research on the optimal components of successful remedies of obesity. They include: plant-based eating, calorie density, the insulin index, and the impact of foods on our microbiome.

Exciting new book and course by the Original Intuitive Eating Pros! Over 500,000 copies sold since 1995! Self-study 46 CE hours course includes: new 4^th edition book & online test, workbook (2017), audio CDs, and two new webinars by the authors—on IE, eating disorders & psychology. Over 120 evidence-based studies worldwide show the effectiveness of IE counseling. 

Exciting new book and course by the Original Intuitive Eating Pros! Over 500,000 copies sold since 1995! Self-study 46 CE hours course includes: new 4^th edition book & online test, workbook (2017), audio CDs, and two new webinars by the authors—on IE, eating disorders & psychology. Over 120 evidence-based studies worldwide show the effectiveness of IE counseling. 

This book offers plant-based nutrition and lifestyle therapies for women with PCOS. For practitioners looking for current plant-based evidence-based research mixed with applied clinical experience this is the course! CDCES approved. 

This book explains the proven, popular counseling approach, Motivational Interviewing (MI), and shows how to integrate it into present counseling interactions with clients. MI offers tools to help clients work through ambivalence and avoid quick-fixes and overcome barriers to change and maintain healthier habits. Sample dialogues show specific ways to improve conversations on movement and planning and eating better.

Written by physicians with nutrition expertise for practicing clinicians. It is evidence-based nutrition therapy across the full expanse of health and disease. New data from hundreds of studies is included in this edition along with enhanced coverage of controversial topics. 

Fully updated 2^nd edition! It covers the newest evidence-based research in assessing growth and malnutrition, addressing feeding and eating issues, and conducting the nutrition focused physical exam. As a bonus, the Academy offers practitioners who purchase the book, 5 CPE hours for a total of 30 CPE hours for the purchase.

Obesity and eating disorders often defy logic for health practitioners working with patients.  The authors are experts in addictions and specifically, processed food addiction. This book contains evidence-based research supporting the diagnosis of addiction and a deep-dive into how processed foods become addictive. They share strategies to overcome the cravings for processed foods. 

A silent health crisis is impacting 33% of Americans—nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. If your liver becomes overwhelmed, it can lead to fatigue, weight gain, liver disease, diabetes, and autoimmune disease. Written by an expert integrative RDN, nutrition manager at the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute along with a hepatic physician.

Lymphedema treatment is an emerging area of interest and historically misunderstood and underdiagnosed. If started early, nutrition and exercise, along with treatment can stop or delay progression of the condition characterized by fluid retention and swelling that impacts about 10 million people in North America. It can be caused by infection, injury, genetic disorder, or as a complication of cancer treatment.

Popular author! Recent research shows human intestinal microbiota influences metabolism, appetite, hormones, inflammation, and insulin resistance. Losing weight is more than cutting calories. Learn how to lose weight for good!

Wonderful resource! A comprehensive course for dietitians, physicians, and other health professionals on the nutrition medical nutrition therapy and integrative therapies for person’s with thyroid disease.

New York Times Bestseller! Use nutrition to rebalance hormones as a young woman through menopause. Covers low thyroid or progesterone, high androgen and cortisol levels, PMS, ovarian cysts, and hot flashes. Excellent resource! 

Written by a neuroscientist and director of UC Berkeley’s Sleep and Neuroimaging Lab, the author, Matthew Walker, PhD explores the purpose of slumber and its little acknowledged or understood crucial functions as related to mood, chronic disease, obesity, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, etc. He explains how to harness the transformative power of adequate sleep and how to sleep better tonight.