Some of my favorite things I came home with were cooking thermometers, pedometers, a year supply of multivitamins/ fish oils/ Vit d supplements, and fun educational materials.
I got to try out the new Coke machines that are going to be at all McDonald's soon.
I sent this picture to Jordan, he would have loved all this free yogurt.
Yep, that is a complete deli case with delicious meats and cheeses. I love sampling different cheeses, my favorite!
I got to try out the new Coke machines that are going to be at all McDonald's soon.
I sent this picture to Jordan, he would have loved all this free yogurt.
Yep, that is a complete deli case with delicious meats and cheeses. I love sampling different cheeses, my favorite!I did learn a few things too :) Here is a brief summary of some of the classes I went to.
1. Nutrition Therapy and Inflammation-
- How nutrition affects inflammatory diseases such as RA, certain types of cancer, heart disease.
- Importance of Mediterranean diet, changing fatty acid profiles from the Western American diet.
- Eat 7-10 servings of high monounsaturated fats/day (olive oil, olives, avocados, etc. )
- Decrease omega 6's (pro-inflammatory) in the diet (peanut oil, margarine, walnuts)
- Follow traditional Greek diet by eating 7 servings of fruits and vegetables/ day
- Basically: eat more fruits and vegetables, less refined grains, less carbohydrates from sweets, less omega 6, more omega 3's. Or if that's too confusing, don't eat like an American :)
2. The War on Obesity: A Battle Worth Fighting?
- Health concerns posed by being overweight/ obese: diabetes, heart disease, cancer, premature mortality, decreased quality of life
- For every additional 5 points of BMI, risks double for:
MEN: esophageal cancer, colon cancer
WOMEN: edometrial cancer
VS.
- HAES (Health at Every Size campaign): Study found that overweight individuals that exercised were more healthy than normal/underweight individuals who never exercised.
- Overweight individuals diagnosed with cancer more likely to survive then underweight or normal weight individuals.
3. Intestinal Surgery
- The colon can salvage up to 1,000 kcal/day of energy from fermenting undigested carbohydrate, which is one reason patients with a colectomy may have difficulty maintaining weight.
- The other facts will mean nothing to the non-RD :)
4. Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Post-Partum Depression and Other Mood Disorders
- Omega 3 deficient states linked to depression
- Fetus depletes mother's stores for brain, eye, CNS development.
- Eat cold water fatty fish 2x/week and a min of 500 mg EPA/DHA /day
4 comments
Sounds like a lot of fun! I wish I could have been there, maybe when FNCE comes to Georgia... :) Miss you!
So what's a serving size of olive oil...a tbsp? And is this telling me that walnuts are bad for me? In so many of my pregnancy magazines they told me to eat walnuts and pecans for the omegas. I'm confused.
Oh, and do you guys have a Fuddruckers in CA? Ours already has that soda machine (if you guys want to try it out).
Basically you're trying to tell me that I'm going to die if I get any illness?
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