Registration Hours
(All times listed in ET*)
Wednesday, November 29: 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Thursday, November 30: 6:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Friday, December 1: 6:30 AM - 5:15 PM
Saturday, December 2: 6:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Sunday, December 3: 6:30 AM - 12:15 PM
Agenda is subject to change.
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*All Credits are pending approval for COPE, FL Board Optometry, FL Board Opticianry, TX Board of Optometry.
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COPE: 87841-EJ
COPE: 87840-SD
TX Board- Optometry: 20-1123810
This course will cover the perils of sugar in the American diet including the formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) that are implicated in multiple diseases. The link between added sugars and the most important systemic diseases facing society and strategies for mitigating this risk will be considered.
Objectives:
- Attendees will be able to describe the epidemiolgical link between added dietary sugars and diabetes, cardiovascular disease and cancer
- Attendees will be able to explain biological mechanisms linking sugar intake to diabetes, heart disease and cancer risk
- Attendees will learn to critically assess the scientific literature with regard to sugar intake and onset of multiple diseases
- Attendees will be able to enumerate lifestyle strategies that reduce the risk of major systemic diseases
- Attendees will be able to list systemic and ocular diseases directly linked to the formation of irrversible glyco-protein aggregates (AGEs)
- Systemic Disease (SD)
