Choose from the following topics:
- Wellness and Weight Managment
- Nutrition Basics
- Worksite & Travel
- Women's Nutrition
- Ready, Set, Cook!
- Fitness
- Holiday Survival
Wellness and Weight Management
Make the Food and Mood Connection
Can the foods we choose ease stress, beat the blues, change our mood, or
make us feel better by the bite? Can we fight sagging energy levels and
“comfort” ourselves with our knife and fork? Researchers used
to think not, but new studies prove otherwise. We’ll share fascinating
new research findings, discuss “diet-made” chemicals like serotonin
and dopamine, explore the very real connection between dietary habits and
mood, and evaluate participant’s moods in relation to lunch!
The 60-Minute Heart Disease Risk Reduction Seminar
Heart disease remains the number one killer. In many cases it’s preventable,
and diet plays a huge role. We’ll describe the relationship between
fat, cholesterol, and coronary heart disease, define dietary fat, dietary
cholesterol, blood fat and blood cholesterol, identify desirable blood cholesterol
and triglyceride levels, introduce current recommendations for dietary fat
and cholesterol intake, and evaluate participant’s 5- and 10-year
risk of heart disease.
How to Eat Out Without Doing Your Diet In
Fast food and restaurant dining is a fact with today’s warp speed
lifestyles, but it doesn’t have to spell nutrition disaster. Learn
how to make healthy choices from a wide variety of fast food restaurants,
make “special requests” a natural part of your order, spot “green”,
“yellow”, and “red” light foods, and gain general
tips for dining out healthfully!
Are Nutrition Misconceptions Affecting Your Waistline?
It seems that nutrition information changes daily – people are confused
and don’t know who to believe. Let us clear up the confusion! We’ll
discuss common nutrition misconceptions, the difference between nutrition
fact and fiction, introduce and define basic nutrition terms, provide suggestions
for improving current dietary habits, and pose a challenge to current thinking
on various topics in nutrition.
Learn How to Change a Fat Storing Machine into a
Fat Burning Machine
Our amazing human physiology helped our ancestors survive in times of famine.
Fast forward to current times where the problem is food excess, not scarcity!
We’ll discuss the three components of a successful fat loss program,
provide an overview of the physiological effects of inappropriate dieting,
introduce guidelines for weight control, review current references regarding
low fat magazines and cookbooks, and introduce strategies for behavior change.
Position Yourself For Success – Healthy Strategies
to Help You Win at Weight Loss!
Every day millions of people start a new “diet” only to experience
all too quickly the feelings of deprivation and “good food/bad food”
thinking. Energy and moods suffer and the dieter blames him or herself for
“failing again”. Stop the insanity! We’ll discuss losing
the “diet mentality”, how to set realistic and measurable goals,
introduce the importance of food logs and controlling your environment,
and explore the role of physical activity in weight loss and maintenance.
Nutrition Basics
Nutrition ABC’s. . .Learn About Amino Acids,
B Vitamins, Carbohydrates and More!
This is Nutrition 101. Participants will learn the six nutrients we can’t
live without, their importance for proper health, their functions, sources,
and recommendations. We’ll introduce the Food Guide Pyramid and discuss
the recommended number of servings for each food group, introduce popular
low fat magazines and cookbooks, and evaluate participant’s current
diets using the Food Guide Pyramid.
Label Ease
Whether selecting foods for overall health or managing a nutrition-related
disease, nutrition facts labels provide guidance. Unfortunately, people
are often uncertain about what to look for, or even how to read and use
the information presented. This seminar provides an overview of food labels
past and future, clears up label “lingo”, helps participant’s
understand the food label format and reference daily values, teaches how
to make choices between foods based on their fat, cholesterol and sodium
content, evaluate food label claims like “light”, “low”,
and “free”, and understand basic nutrition terms and nutrient
recommendations.
Worksite and Travel
Desktop Dining
Grabbing lunch at your desk or snacking your way through the day doesn’t
have to be unhealthy. This seminar covers lunching and snacking ‘ala
desktop. We discuss how to identify and prevent mindless munching, share
tips for delicious, nutritious lunches and snacks, identify how to feed
your snack cravings without doing in your healthy eating plan, and provide
ideas for healthy worksite food stashes and no-cook mini-meals.
Learn How to Keep Your Weight From Taking Off Every
Time You Do
Whether for business or pleasure, traveling outside of your everyday routine
can wreak havoc on healthy eating and exercise programs. We’ll talk
about overcoming food and exercise challenges when traveling, learn how
air travel affects the body, and offer nutrition tips for airline and hotel
eating as well as exercise tips for hotel stays.
Women’s Nutrition
What to Eat When You’re Expecting
A must for all mommy’s-to-be! We’ll discuss the expected pattern
of weight gain, introduce the Food Guide Pyramid and establish personal
eating plans, offer nutrition education regarding common side effects and
symptoms of pregnancy, and present information regarding ways to minimize
nausea and vomiting.
Ready, Set, Cook!
Cooking for the Health of It!
Let’s face it, we could all benefit from eating more home-cooked meals.
Lack of knowledge often keeps us stuck in outdated, unhealthy cooking routines.
Sometimes our old standby recipes just need a good nutrition makeover. This
seminar covers both of those issues by discussing low fat cooking options
for a variety of foods, presenting recipe substitutions and alternative
ingredients, and teaching participants to recognize and purchase low fat
alternatives to otherwise unhealthy recipe ingredients.
Quick and Healthy Worknight Meals!
Packed evening schedules and exhaustion at the end of a long day wreak havoc
at dinnertime. Learn how to skip the drive-through and get quick, healthy
meals on the dinner table in no time. We’ll identify obstacles, introduce
the components of a good game plan, share time-saving tips, provide guidelines
for nutrition packed meals, and conclude with ideas for putting it all together.
Fitness
The Formula for Fitness
We know we need to move more and eat less – the power of physical
activity in preventing disease and contributing to overall health cannot
be underestimated! Let us help you get started. We’ll discuss the
role of exercise and calorie reduction in weight loss, the F.I.T. principle
and the three components of exercise, identify personal motivation and commitment,
and conclude with an educational discussion that busts exercise myths.
Holiday Survival
Stuff the Turkey…Not Your Face!
Whether it’s Memorial day or Christmas day, holidays are fraught with
hectic schedules and bountiful food. Too few hours in a day with too much
to do often cause healthy eating and exercise routines to go by the wayside.
We’ll discuss survival tips for prevention of holiday weight gain,
introduction of a behavior contract, low fat and low cholesterol recipe
substitutions, and the impact of small behavior and menu changes for successful
holiday weight maintenance at holiday’s year ‘round! (seminar
title can be changed to “Holiday Eating” for general use.)
