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Science of Long-Term Weight Loss Online CE Exam Without Book, The

$173.95 CAD

Online Exam Without Book
$173.95 CAD

ISBN: 9781718237254

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NOTE: The book The Science of Long-Term Weight Loss is required for successful completion of this course but is not included with this purchase. Purchase this Online Course Without Book only if you already own the book or ebook.

This package includes the following:
  • Online continuing education exam

Consisting of 100 multiple-choice and true-false questions, this continuing education exam is designed to be taken after reading The Science of Long-Term Weight Loss. The exam will test your knowledge of the information presented in the book so you can effectively implement long-term weight loss strategies and maintenance approaches.

Once you pass the exam, you can print a certificate for continuing education credits.

Learning Objectives
  • Describe the prevalence and etiology of obesity.
  • Explain how individual and environmental contributors make obesity treatment and prevention complex and difficult.
  • Understand the theories for explaining the obesity epidemic.
  • Describe the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and young people, and list the factors that contribute to childhood obesity.
  • Understand energy balance and the predictors of weight loss in weight loss studies.
  • Describe the recommendations for using exercise to lose weight and maintain lost weight.
  • Distinguish disordered eating behaviors from healthy eating behaviors.
  • Understand the effectiveness of weight loss maintenance interventions as well as best practices for weight loss maintenance.
  • Explain how societal obesity interventions require a complex system of policy changes, involving government and industry.
  • Describe behavioral approaches to obesity treatment, and recognize the need for longer-term interventions in obesity treatment.
  • Understand the potential of group work, social support, motivational interviewing, self-determination theory, self-experimentation, and other intervention attributes in successful weight loss and weight loss maintenance.
  • Identify the basic components of an effective long-term weight loss program and the skills clients need to develop to be successful so that a comprehensive program can be designed, implemented, and tailored over time.

Audience

Certified fitness professionals and personal trainers who work on weight loss strategies with clients or patients.

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