The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People

Course overview

(Book, 319 pgs and study guide, 25 pgs.) This groundbreaking best-selling CPE program reveals how to transform your client's health using smart eating and lifestyle habits gleaned from new research on the diets, eating habits, and lifestyle practices of the communities with the world's longest-lived, and healthiest, people. You too can apply what the author has learned from launching the largest preventive health care project in the United States. Upon completion of this CPE program you will be better able to: Integrate outcomes research to plan programs that help clients achieve healthier nutrition, lifestyles and longevity. Utilize proven lifestyle evaluation tools to assess pre- and post-program participant's or client behaviors and health status. Recommend "best" and "worst" foods for promoting health and longevity. Identify health benefits, recommended servings and the healthiest varieties of various foods such as meat, fish, eggs, nuts, bread, and plant-based foods. Assist clients in identifying barriers to change, and formulating positive social relationships linked to improved health.