Presenter: Benjamin Kligler, MD, MPH; Jaime Schehr, ND, RD, CDN
Format: Video of slides with synchronized audio

For most of us our relationship to food is more than meeting caloric needs. It can be emotional, social, medicinal, health promoting or impeding. For some food is joyous and others torture. For all of us however, eating is our fuel, foundation and prescription to health. This presentation will give you straight-forward and effective strategies on how to incorporate nutrition into your patients visit. The lecture will outline the key considerations when discussing diet and promoting change. You will learn the questions to ask when evaluating dietary intake as well as how to decide on the right diet for your patient. Dr. Schehr will identify clinical pearls for discussing nutrition in a timely, effective and realistic manner and the key to making lasting dietary changes. Dr. Kligler will share successful techniques from his practice and teach and demonstrate the basic elements of motivational interviewing as a tool for clinicians.

Learning Objectives
- Identify signs of possible heavy metal toxicity in the nutrition-oriented physical exam
- Understand the correlation between reduced smell and detoxification nutrition status
- Test for and identify peripheral neuropathy using the monofilament in the exam of the extremities