[PHNUTR-L] Cornell NutritionWorks - New Offerings Available!

[Christina Stark]

Dear Colleagues:

Cornell NutritionWorks, the online professional development website at 
<http://www.nutritionworks.cornell.edu/>www.nutritionworks.cornell.edu, has 
several new offerings available.

Our two newest topics focus on the Dietary Guidelines and the new 
MyPyramid. In addition, we have a new topic related to childhood obesity 
and schools, plus continuing professional education credit is now available 
on three previously posted topics related to obesity. Lastly, you can hear 
three World Food Prize laureates discuss the link between agriculture, 
nutrition and health.

New Topics:

1. Implementing the Dietary Guidelines through MyPyramid, by Dr. Eric 
Hentges, Executive Director of USDA's Center for Nutrition Policy and 
Promotion.

2. Evolution of the Dietary Guidelines by Dr. Malden Nesheim, professor 
emeritus in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell, and chairman 
of the 1990 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.

3. The Childhood Overweight Epidemic: What are the Causes and What Can 
Schools Do? by Dr. Wendy Wolfe, research associate in the Division of 
Nutritional Sciences at Cornell.

4. World Food Prize Seminar Series. Includes presentations by Nevin 
Scrimshaw (1991 World Food Prize Laureate), Per Pinstrup-Andersen (2001 
World Food Prize Laureate), and Catherine Bertini (2003 World Food Prize 
Laureate).

The following topics were announced in January 2006. Continuing 
professional education credit is now available for each of them.

1. Strategies to Address the Obesity Epidemic by Dr. James Hill.
2. Obesity, Physical Activity, Eating and the Built Environment by Dr. 
James Sallis.
3. Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Obesity by Dr. Penny 
Gordon-Larsen.

4. Our current Ask the Nutrition Expert topic is An Intervention to Promote 
Appropriate Weight Gain in Pregnant Women by Dr. Christine Olson, Division 
of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University. In her overview, Dr. Olson 
describes an intervention that resulted in a decrease in the number of 
women with excessive gestational weight gain. She is available to answer 
your questions on this topic.

You need to be a member of Cornell NutritionWorks to view all the content 
on the website, but registration is free! Continuing professional education 
credit is available for  a fee of $15.00/credit, easily payable online. For 
additional information visit the website, 
<http://www.nutritionworks.cornell.edu/>www.nutritionworks.cornell.edu, or 
contact nutritionworks at cornell.edu.


Christina Stark, M.S., R.D., C.D.N.
Program Leader, Cornell NutritionWorks
Division of Nutritional Sciences
3M13A MVR Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: 607-255-2141, Fax: 607-255-0027
E-mail: cms11 at cornell.edu
Web: www.nutritionworks.cornell.edu  
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