The IPTN has recently created a one-page information sheet about who we are and what we do, highlighting some of our recent achievements. Here is the text, below, but we’ve also designed it as a downloadable shareable PDF, too.
Please read and share either this blog or the PDF to help us spread the word to more people out about our important work!
FOOD as TREATMENT for CHRONIC DISEASE
WHO WE ARE
The IPTN is a registered Canadian charity that promotes the safe and effective use of evidence-based therapeutic nutrition (i.e. food as treatment) to improve the health of people living with chronic disease.
WHAT WE DO
Raise public awareness and help people adopt therapeutic nutrition approaches to manage or reverse their specific condition, such as achieving remission of type 2 diabetes.
Train and certify healthcare providers to deliver and support evidence-based therapeutic nutrition options for patients who choose it.
Work with researchers and the healthcare system to generate and share new knowledge about therapeutic nutrition to inform health policy and practice.
HIGHLIGHTS of IPTN ACTIVITIES
Created the certified professional training courses “Foundations in Therapeutic Nutrition” and “Health Coaching for Weight Loss and Type 2 Diabetes Remission”;
Created an online “Therapeutic Nutrition Community of Practice” to engage with health professionals;
Planned and hosted 40+ CME-approved webinars and four annual IPTN health conferences on therapeutic nutrition research; presented on therapeutic nutrition topics at provincial, national and international conferences;
Created the website diabetesremission.ca with tools, resources, and inspiring remission stories for patients and health professionals to promote and support type 2 diabetes remission;
Created the website reversingprediabetes.ca with patient and health professional resources, tools, and information to improve metabolic health and prevent progression to type 2 diabetes;
Received Health Excellence Canada grant to engage with two rural BC communities, Tumbler Ridge and Port Alberni, to support their planning of local type 2 diabetes remission services using food-based approaches;
Collaborated on publications for health professionals to raise awareness and application of therapeutic nutrition research;
Ongoing engagement with thought leaders, organizations, and healthcare providers to advance therapeutic nutrition as a first-line treatment for chronic disease.
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