Ultraprocessed Foods and CVD

This continuing education course explores foods that are classified as ultraprocessed, food processing methods that are utilized during the creation of ultraprocessed foods, and ultraprocessed foods’ impact on specific risks factors for CVD, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and obesity, as well as overall CVD.

Learning Objectives

After completing this continuing education course, nutrition professionals should be better able to:

  1. Describe the relationship between the consumption of ultraprocessed foods and heart disease risk.
  2. Summarize the impact ultraprocessed foods have on blood pressure, cholesterol, and obesity.
  3. Understand how certain food processing methods may impact cardiovascular health.
  4. Implement practice guidelines to help reduce the consumption of ultraprocessed foods and improve heart health.

Additional Information

CDR Activity Type: 
102
CPE Level: 
1
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.00 CDR
Course opens: 
05/01/2026
Course expires: 
04/30/2029
CE Club cost:
$12.00
CE Club cost:
$0.00
Cost:
$24.00
Rating: 
0

Course content was updated by Alexandria Hardy, RDN, LDN, an early intervention dietitian and the owner of Pennsylvania Nutrition Services, an insurance-based private practice located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

The faculty and planners for this activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.

An "ineligible company" includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.  This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).

This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).

RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner's discretion.

Available Credit

  • 2.00 CDR

Price

CE Club cost:
$12.00
CE Club cost:
$0.00
Cost:
$24.00
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