Welcome to Vitamins, Herbs, and Nutritional Supplements! Michelle Barrack Gardner, PhD, MS, CSCS Adjunct Professor School of Health Sciences

Welcome! Welcome to our first seminar! How many of you have attended a Kaplan seminar before? Let’s start with an icebreaker activity …..

Please tell us about yourself! Please tell us about yourself! - Do you currently take any vitamin or nutritional supplements? - What is one unique characteristic that you would like to share with the group? - What are your future career goals? Please answer two or more of the questions so we can get to know each other!

Seminar 1 Outline Textbooks –Which do you need and do you have them? Announcements – Check frequently for updates! Syllabus – Major areas & important info AIM – What is it and why do you need it? Assignments (projects, discussion, seminar) Grading Office hours Unit 1 - Learning Outcomes and Activities

Syllabus - Located in DocSharing - Posted in Syllabus area - Sent with welcome - Please print & read it well! - All grading criteria is listed - Expectations are clear! - Make note of due dates!

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) - Can be downloaded here for free My AIM: Mbgardner3 - Office hours: By Appointment

Discussions - Rubric in syllabus - Spell check! - References - Bring in outside references and sources - Think outside the discussion “box” - Minimum 150 words - APA style guidelines - At least 2, 75-word responses

Seminar Option 1 - The week’s lesson - Grading rubric in syllabus - Expectations – Be prepared! Option 2 - Takes place of 1hr seminar - Check the posting criteria and grading rubric - Expectations – Well written, researched

Option 2 Example Respond to the questions below. Your response to each of the questions should be composed in complete sentences and paragraphs and be approximately words in length. Save your responses in a Microsoft Word document and submit your work to the Dropbox. Define the differences between the following terms: a) Natural Medicine Theory vs. Biomedicine, b) Plant vs. Drugs, c) Vitamins vs. Minerals, and d) Plant Constituents vs. Accessory Nutrients. Why do you think that supplements have become so popular in the last ten years? Do you feel that there popularity will continue to grow or stop and why? Seminar

Due dates & working ahead - Due dates in syllabus – when you print it keep the calendar of assignments where you can see it - Take note of project due dates - Please don’t work ahead on seminar option 2 or discussion board - Posting early in the week allows us to have a better discussion - Focus on quality posts

APA, Projects & Plagiarism Referencing - APA format - Reference any info that does not come out of your own head! - Kaplan library & Health Sciences Resource Room are excellent resource Projects - Submit in Microsoft Word & always include a reference page - Zero tolerance for plagiarism

Course Description Introduces the most commonly used vitamins, herbs and nutritional supplements. Single vitamins – their benefits, dosage, precautions and contraindications – will be reviewed as well as vitamin formulas routinely recommended. Nutritional supplements will be introduced and their categories, benefits and safety issues will be explored and discussed. The principal systems of herbal medicine found worldwide will be illustrated along with their individual characteristics and common usage. This course also examines the growing popularity of herbal medicines from a sociological and ecological standpoint.

Course Outcomes 1. Describe the benefits and common uses of common vitamins, minerals, and herbs. 2. Describe commonly recommended vitamin and mineral prescriptions across the spectrum of age and gender 3. Describe principal systems of herbal medicine found worldwide, their characteristics and common uses 4. Discuss nutritional supplements 5. Evaluate issues involving regulation, special interest groups and ecological concerns in current research

Unit 1 Learning Activities 1. Introduce Yourself: 1. Introduce Yourself: Initial and 2 posts to classmates Initial and 2 posts to classmates 2. Discussion: 2. Discussion: Post your answers and respond/comment on at least 2 of your classmates posts 3. Seminar: 3. Seminar: Complete Option 1 or Option 2 4. Reading: 4. Reading: Online Communications Guidelines, Kaplan’s Library, Final APT Project, Syllabus 5. Further Notes: 5. Further Notes: Defining Supplements and Natural Medicine

Popularity of Supplements? Discussion Question - Why do you think that supplements have become so popular in the last ten years? - Do you feel that there popularity will continue to grow or stop and why? - Do you feel that there popularity will continue to grow or stop and why?

Questions & Follow-Up - Please your AIM names - Review the rubrics for grading - Contact me: On AIM – mbgardner3 On AIM – mbgardner3 Kaplan – Kaplan – Within our course - Post questions under the Course Questions section under Course Home Within our course - Post questions under the Course Questions section under Course HomeQuestions??????????

Unit 2 Learning Activities 1. Project: 1. Project: Keep a 5-d food journal, analyze the nutrients. Keep a 5-d food journal, analyze the nutrients. You will then write a report about your diet You will then write a report about your diet 2. Discussion: 2. Discussion: Post your answers and respond/comment on at least 2 of your classmates posts 3. Seminar: 3. Seminar: Complete Option 1 or Option 2 4. Reading: 4. Reading: Chapters 1 and 2 in Williams’ Essentials of Nutrition and Diet Therapy 5. Further Notes: 5. Further Notes: How are supplements regulated? 2 FDA Articles

I hope that you enjoy this term as we learn more about vitamins, herbs, and nutritional supplements!