Webinar: Anti-Obesity Medications: Are Diet and Lifestyle Still Relevant?
Anti-obesity medications have quickly become a trillion-dollar business. We will review the current medications available and how they work in the body to promote weight loss. We will explore the current research, intended population, and how diet and exercise interventions impact sustainable weight loss.
Learning Objectives
- Attendees will learn about the Anti-Obesity medications currently on the market and how they work in the body.
- Attendees will learn what the research shows about the effectiveness and safety of these medications.
- Attendees will learn about key lifestyle interventions to support safe and effective weight loss for clients on anti-obesity medications.
Speaker: Kirstin Taylor, MS, RDN, LD, Director of Nutrition at the Cooper Clinic.
This webinar is sponsored by Cooper Wellness Strategies, an MFA Industry Partner.
Kirstin Taylor serves as the Director of Nutrition for Cooper Clinic. Her 19 years of experience as a registered dietitian includes acute-care hospital-based nutrition (in- and outpatient), private nutrition counseling, sports nutrition, diabetes nutrition programming and clinical management.
Kirstin earned her Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Sciences from The University of Oklahoma before completing her Master of Science in Nutritional Sciences from the University of Connecticut where she also served as a Sports Nutrition Graduate Assistant. In this role, she performed educational team talks, developed meal plans for athletes and counseled athletes on basic nutrition.
Before coming to Cooper, Kirstin served as the Director of Food and Nutrition at Texas Heart Hospital Plano where she managed the nutrition department of the acute care hospital, production of patient, cafeteria and catered meals and oversaw inpatient and outpatient clinical nutrition practices. She is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and is also OSHA and ServSafe certified.