P-POD's Unique Curriculum, Covered at All Conferences

Our longtime theme "The Future of Healthcare Begins with Nutrition" and our broad focus on Lifestyle Medicine have led to the following innovative P-POD curriculum, updated again for 2023.  We seek to meet the extremely high standard of representing EACH one of the following important subject areas in one way or another at EACH future P-POD Conference:
 

• Promoting healthful behaviors at the community-program and primary-care levels

• Cancer prevention and survivorship

• Cardiovascular health and disease

• Diabetes prevention or reversal

• Exercise physiology, and movement in daily lifestyle

• Health equity, vulnerable populations, and access disparities for care and nutritious-food

• Kidney health and chronic kidney disease

• Mental and brain health

• Microbiota / gut health and dysbiosis / gut-brain axis / immune homeostasis and autoimmunity

• Pediatrics

• Plant-based nutrition as a practical resource in chronic disease prevention/reversal

• Restorative (sleep, social connection) and degrading (chronic stress, risky substances) lifestyle factors

• Women's health

Note that Lifestyle Medicine's Six "Pillars" are embedded throughout the above:  healthful eating of whole plant-based food;  beneficial physical activity;  strategies to manage stress;  forming and maintaining relationships;  improving sleep;  avoiding risky substances.

2023 Preliminary View

Our speakers are distinguished clinicians, researchers and educators.
There were 41 speakers in 3 conferences in 2022.  The image below shows just the first 8 speakers named for our next conference, scheduled for Sat. Sept. 30 - Mon. Oct. 2, 2023, Newark NJ and virtually.

General Learning Objectives for Conference Overall

The participant will be able to:

**Identify dietary and other lifestyle-based risk factors associated with development or progression of major chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes or chronic kidney disease.

**Describe evidence for specific protective mechanisms and health benefits that may be provided at cellular, individual and global levels via plant-based nutrition and allied lifestyle measures.

**Discuss how nutritional advisement emphasizing plant-based approaches may be integrated into clinical practice, thus facilitating positive, measurable and cost effective clinical outcomes for various preventable chronic diseases.

**Identify factors that influence dietary and other lifestyle choices, or that discourage behavior change, as well as strategies and techniques for promoting sustainable nutritional advancement in individuals and communities.