How do you promote nutritional intervention that combines healthful benefits with preventative effects against chronic diseases that American adults encounter - conditions like diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, cancer, obesity, and chronic kidney disease - while maintaining patient quality of life allowing patients the autonomy for decision-making? During this dual lecture and panel discussion style presentation with two plant-based dietitians, RDN and MD team members will analyze the increasingly growing literature of plant-based nutrition and its role in the prevention of chronic diseases; demonstrate how a plant-based approach is utilized in a disease such as chronic kidney disease, which is directly impacted by diabetes and hypertension; and examine where healthcare providers struggle with potassium homeostasis and strategize using a patient-centered approach to incorporate change.

Planned with the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group