April 24, 21012

Francie Astrom from Wellworks came and talked to us today. Wellworks is supported partially by university wellness funds and supported by memberships and fees for service, nutrition counseling, and personal training. The focus is to provide wide variety of programming not just fitness, focus on keeping members healthy and achieve adaptable health, improvement of heath status by health risk appraisal. Types of programs include fitness center, massage, personal training, blood pressure, cholesterol, and other screenings, wellness coaching, respond to request, nutrition programming, body composition, heartworks, and pulmonary rehab. An OU faculty or staff member and their dependents, OU retirees and dependents are allowed to use wellworks. Community members can join at a higher cost, corporate members, and full time graduate students can also join. Wellworks identifies needs of OU community through special requests and surveys. The RD is integral to success of wellness program. She provides update nutrition information. Francie also review and interprets current literature, resource to staff and members and act as a change agent. Wellworks provides nutrition education/counseling at a low cost, easy access, provide to students as well, disordered eating, dietary analysis, as well as work-ins.

April 26,2012

Today's class was really short because the guest speaker got lost and never showed up. We turned in our exams and Dr. Holben went over the Ohio Board of Dietetics website. The mission of the board is “to effectively protect the public by regulating the practice of dietetics through licensure, and by fairly and consistently enforcing the laws and rules governing nutritional practices.” We also talked about the food menu for the family of four that is due next Tuesday.