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This 2 hour online presentation features the discussion of topics related to holistic health and nutrition. The presentation includes written transcripts for each topic as well as comprehensive linked references for further research.

Holistic Health and Nutrition Topics covered:

• Getting Under Our Skin: BPA on Receipts
• Checking Children’s Cholesterol
• LDL Cholesterol and Heart Disease
• Black Raspberry Supplements Tested
• Animal Protein and Stress Hormones
• Is Obesity Infectious?
• How to Reduce Stroke Risk with Diet
• Donating Blood to Prevent Heart Disease
• Donating Blood to Prevent Cancer
• Turmeric and Inflammatory Pseudotumor
• Is Soy Good or Bad for Breast Cancer?
• Breast Cancer Risk and Soy
• Treating Endometriosis with Seaweed
• Milk & Type 1 Diabetes
• Meat & Type 1 Diabetes
• Paratuberculosis in Meat
• Miso Soup: Soy vs. Sodium
• Marjoram for PCOS
• Treating PCOS with Diet
• How to Stop Hiccups
• Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection
• Do Vitamin C Supplements Prevent Colds?
• Does Aspartame Cause Cancer?
• Can Green Tea Help Prevent Cancer?
• Can Green Tea Help Treat Cancer?
• Supplement Industry & Carnitine/TMAO

Expanded Discussion Topics: 

• Checking Children’s Cholesterol
  Risk factors that correlate with the extent of such early lesions are the same risk factors that correlate with [heart attacks] later in life.” In other words, it’s the same disease, just in the early stages. Pathologists are seeing all this coronary artery disease in younger people and children.
• Animal Protein and Stress Hormones
  A single meal high in animal protein can nearly double the level of stress hormone in the blood within a half hour of consumption—much more than a meal closer to the recommended level of protein. Give someone a meal of crabmeat, tuna fish, or cottage cheese, and the stress hormone levels shoots up.
• Breast Cancer Risk and Soy
  Eating soy foods appears to protect against the cancer coming back. Women who ate the most soy had a 29% lower risk of dying from breast cancer, and a 36% lower risk of cancer recurrence. Soy food intake is associated with longer survival and lower recurrence among breast cancer patients. With an average intake of soy phytonutrients above 17 milligrams a day, which is about what’s found in a single cup of soy milk, the mortality of breast cancer may be able to be reduced by as much as 38%.
• Treating PCOS with Diet 
  The highest AGE levels are found in broiled, grilled, fried, and roasted foods of mostly “animal origin.” Is it possible that this causal chain starts with a bad diet—like lots of fried chicken—which leads to obesity, which then, in turn, leads to PCOS?
• Meat & Type 1 Diabetes 
  Studies that have followed thousands of “mother-child pairs” found that eating meat during breastfeeding was associated with an increased risk of both preclinical and full-blown type 1 diabetes by the time their child reached age 8. They thought it might be the glycotoxins—the AGEs found in cooked meat—that can be transferred through breastfeeding.

Inspire Youth To Achieve Optimal Health Long Term

Become a Certified Youth Nutrition Specialist in 6 months or less.

This comprehensive Youth Nutrition Specialist Certification program is designed for individuals who want to teach active children and teens healthy nutrition habits that will serve them through to adulthood.

For parents, coaches, personal trainers, or nutrition consultants who desire to help children manage an ideal weight and/or seek to improve their young athlete’s energy and athletic performance, the AFPA Youth Nutrition Specialist program will assist you in helping your child reach their wellness goals.

What Can I Do as a Youth Nutrition Specialist?

You play a significant part in the life of a growing athlete. That’s why you need to learn proven nutritional strategies for maximizing health excellence and athletic development in youth.

The optimum way for your young clients and athletes to feel their best is to develop an energizing, performance-enhancing nutrition plan, tailored to their body’s specific composition.

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Give Kids The Knowledge and Experience to Live Healthier, More Confident Lives

Did you know? The national obesity rate among youth ages 2 to 19 is 18.5%. Not only is this rate higher than the previous generation, the data shows that in the U.S. alone, childhood obesity is estimated to cost $14 billion annually in direct health expenses.

This online Youth Fitness Specialist Certification program goes beyond exercise by providing a multidisciplinary approach to teaching health-related fitness to youth. This program will show you how to motivate, instruct, and coach kids at the elementary school level to get fit, improve their overall health, and boost their self-esteem.

What’s It Like Being a Youth Fitness Specialist?

Specializing in youth fitness doesn’t just open new doors to a niche fitness market, it gives you a rewarding opportunity to play a positive role model in the life of a child. Once you’re AFPA certified, you’ll be able to:

• Develop competitive games and fitness-driven activities based on the individual’s skill levels
• Create a safe environment for children exercising in larger groups
• Examine and apply motivational techniques to encourage children to exercise and be physically active
• Instruct proper strength and endurance training to minimize injury and increase overall performance
• Differentiate between exercises to enhance sport-specific skills and those to enhance physical wellness
• Construct proper workouts for kids based on the sports and activities they participate in or may like
• Design cardiovascular programs to improve overall health while minimizing children’s risk for obesity and cardiovascular disease
• Determine strength levels of children with safe tests for further exercise recommendations

The Youth Fitness Specialist Certification Program Includes:

• All course materials
  • 2 certification textbooks
  • Comprehensive manuals and additional video lessons
• Sample yearly plan and youth fitness lesson plans
• Reproducible instructional materials
• Authentic assessment instruments
• Fitness education portfolio
• Motivational strategies