A healthy lifestyle, including proper nutrition and adequate physical activity, is essential to ensuring optimal health. It is widely understood that poor or unbalanced diets and a lack of physical activity have a detrimental impact on health worldwide. Not only can these factors lead to the development and progression of several non-communicable diseases, but they can also influence outcomes for those with other medical conditions.
This toolkit provides an international collection of best practices of professional services, evidence and guidance for nutrition-related and weight-management services both for pharmacist organisations and individual practitioners.
November 3, 2022
How nutrition impacts heart health is the focus of this event, the last and final one in the ‘Food for thought: Pharmacists’ role in healthy nutrition.’ The webinar aims to examine the interlinks between nutrition and heart health, its role in the prevention and management of cardiovascular diseases, how pharmacy-based nutrition services can support patients with heart conditions.
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September 29, 2022
Strengthening our patients’ immune systems has never been more important, and healthy nutrition is one critical factor. This event focuses on how nutrition impacts immunity and its importance in supporting a strong and responsive immune system. It is the second event in the 2022 FIP series ‘Food for thought: Pharmacists’ role in healthy nutrition’.
May 28, 2021
This webinar focuses on the role of nutrition in the prevention and management of non-communicable diseases, and the role that pharmacists can play to support healthy nutrition choices for different population groups. Expert speakers address important aspects such as the role of community of pharmacists in diabetes prevention, screening, referral and management, the role of dietary supplements in disease management and one example of a community pharmacy nutrition service. In addition, selected aspects from the FIP handbook on nutrition and weight management for pharmacists are presented.
June 4, 2021
This webinar focuses on the role of community of pharmacists in weight management and obesity prevention, screening, referral and management, pharmacy-led weight management approaches and the intergenerational correlations in hypercholesterolemia and obesity. In addition, it presents selected aspects from the FIP handbook on nutrition and weight management for pharmacists.