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Elimination Diets: Best Practices to Minimize Food and Symptom Hypervigilance

Course registration closed on May 1, 2025. Please enter your email address below to receive notices of upcoming courses.

The course is designed specifically for professionals who recommend or teach elimination diets (focus on adult population).

Participants will learn to:

  • Assess and decide if an elimination diet is suitable for a patient.
  • Discuss the benefits, risks and options of an elimination diet with patients.
  • Choose positive language and practices to support patients in maintaining a healthy relationship with food throughout the elimination diet/food challenge process.

Funding for this educational activity was provided by Genentech. This activity is not being offered for CME but will follow standards of adult education, will focus on scientifically sound education, and will remain free of commercial bias.

Course Content

Background
Welcome
Abbreviations
What is an Elimation Diet?
Food and Symptom Hypervigilance (FS-H)
How can EDiets Impact FS-H
Conditioned Food Avoidance & Sensitivity
The C-FAST Cycle
Consequences of Being Stuck in the C-FAST Cycle
ARFID
Summary
Test Your Learning – Background Module
Is an Elimination Diet Suitable for My Client?
Why Assess Before Recommending an Elimination Diet
Validated Screening Tools for FS-H
Exploratory Questions
Red Flags That an EDiet May Not Be Appropriate
Proceeding with an EDiet or Not
Test Your Learning – Is an EDiet Suitable?
Positive Language When Discussing Elimination Diets
Importance of Language
Communicate Theories as Experimental
Minimize Off-Handed Comments
Avoid Categorizing Foods with Binary Language
Limit Fear-Based Words
Test Your Learning – Positive Language
Other Considerations During the EDiet Process
Before Starting an Elimination Diet
During the Elimination Diet
During Food Challenges
Maintenance Diet
Test Your Learning- Other Considerations
Summary
Final Evaluation
Additional Resource
References
Further Resources