Tuesday, May 22
In class we just met with our group to finish our final project.
Thursday, May 24
Today Karen Bakies from American Dairy Association came in and talked to us. The mission of the dairy counsel is provide timely, scientific-based nutrition information to the media, physicians, dietitians, nurses, educators, consumers, and others concerned about fostering a healthy lifestyle. Also administers grants to independent researchers to aid in discovery new information about dairy foods and their important role in a healthy lifestyle. The Dairy Association is funded by a dairy farmer. For every 100 pounds they get 15 cents. There are 83 cows in Ohio. The national diary counsel has many nutrition messages: communicate accurate, science-based food and nutrition information, help consumers access trusted information, and educate consumers to differentiate between commercial and non-commercial. The ADA has segmented respondents into 3 groups of I'm already doing it, I know I should, and Don't Bother me. Karen also taught us a lot about dealing with specific audiences and know how to target and inform them in way they understand. Try to keep them interest by doing activities. Today Karen played Simon says and it was really fun! It was really interesting to her today. I feel like she knew exactly what she talked about and keep the class interested in the dairy counsel.
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Tuesday, May 15
Today in class Melissa Alfano from WIC came in and talked to us. WIC is a supplemental nutrition program. The people who are eligible are pregnant women, breastfeeding women, postpartum women, infants, and children. They have to follow the income guidelines at or below 185% of US poverty income guidelines, medicaid, they must be a resident of Ohio, and be at nutriton risk. Nutrition risk includes anemia, under/overweight, pregnancy complication, poor pregnancy outcomes, and inappropriate nutrition practices. WIC is funded 100% Federally and operates in all 88 counties. WIC improves pregnancy outcomes, reduces infant mortality, and provides infants and children with a healthy start. It provides nutrtion education, breastfeeding education, supplemental foods, and tickets for farmers makerts. If mother is breastfeeding they get to stay on WIC for 1 year and have more benefits than those who don't breastfeed they only get 6 months. It is monitor by the federal every 2 years and gets evaulated by state dietitian. The rest of class we listen to Cherly Rock about diet and physical activity in cancer preventaion and surviorship.
Thursday, May 17
Today we went to Good Earth farm. This was probably one of my favorite places that we had visited. Paul talked to us about the farm. The Good Earth provides food for to the food pantries for free. It feeds people for free, they have lunch and dinners at their house to feed anyone for free. The grow alot of vegetables, I forget how much but it was alot! Paul also just started growing fruit. They also have cows and sheep. The cows were really fun to watch. When the farm first started it was funded by his wife who is teacher at Hocking college and now if funded more by grants. Paul started the farm with just the idea and wasn't sure how it was going to work out. He wanted the land because of the soil so he just asked the people who live next to them and let him buy it from them. This was a really fun and interesting visit and really taught me alot about farms!
Today in class Melissa Alfano from WIC came in and talked to us. WIC is a supplemental nutrition program. The people who are eligible are pregnant women, breastfeeding women, postpartum women, infants, and children. They have to follow the income guidelines at or below 185% of US poverty income guidelines, medicaid, they must be a resident of Ohio, and be at nutriton risk. Nutrition risk includes anemia, under/overweight, pregnancy complication, poor pregnancy outcomes, and inappropriate nutrition practices. WIC is funded 100% Federally and operates in all 88 counties. WIC improves pregnancy outcomes, reduces infant mortality, and provides infants and children with a healthy start. It provides nutrtion education, breastfeeding education, supplemental foods, and tickets for farmers makerts. If mother is breastfeeding they get to stay on WIC for 1 year and have more benefits than those who don't breastfeed they only get 6 months. It is monitor by the federal every 2 years and gets evaulated by state dietitian. The rest of class we listen to Cherly Rock about diet and physical activity in cancer preventaion and surviorship.
Thursday, May 17
Today we went to Good Earth farm. This was probably one of my favorite places that we had visited. Paul talked to us about the farm. The Good Earth provides food for to the food pantries for free. It feeds people for free, they have lunch and dinners at their house to feed anyone for free. The grow alot of vegetables, I forget how much but it was alot! Paul also just started growing fruit. They also have cows and sheep. The cows were really fun to watch. When the farm first started it was funded by his wife who is teacher at Hocking college and now if funded more by grants. Paul started the farm with just the idea and wasn't sure how it was going to work out. He wanted the land because of the soil so he just asked the people who live next to them and let him buy it from them. This was a really fun and interesting visit and really taught me alot about farms!
Sunday, May 6, 2012
May 1, 2012
Janine Faber the RD from Meijer came in and talk to us. She covers Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Lexington areas. I loved hearing her talk about her job although I don't see myself doing it. The goal of the Meijer Healthy Living program is to increase sales and promotes customer loyalty by creating and communicating health solutions and product knowledge to shoppers. The RDs that work at Meijer host community events such as health fairs, expos, presentations, and cooking demos, have in-store events like disease management, taste of Meijer, media events like talking on the radio or on tv and have publications such as the Healthy Living Naturally Magazine. She gave us two the April and May additions and it was fun to read and see the different articles and recipes they as a team create. Janine and another member also post on pinterest which I thought was really neat but pinterest is awesome! She also talked about NuVal Nutrition Scoring System. I love this program and I wish every grocery store had this. NuVal really would help shoppers buy more nutritious foods and I think it would help improve the health of the community as a whole. NuVal also shows that you don't always have to pay more for nutritious products because alot of the time they are cheaper anyway! You can't beat that! Janine and the team of RDs are funded through sponsorships. Each company sends a list of products that can sponsor them such as McCormick, Plantarts, and the company will pay to be apart of the program then Meijer will try and incorporate them in their media segments. The team will look at the product and look at the NuVal score to make sure it is healthy to advertise
May 3, 2012
Heidi Anderson from Wellworks came and talk to us today. She is the special events coordinator. She does alot the marketing and public relations of Wellworks. One thing she stressed was collaborating with other agencies helps make things run alot easier and is less stressful. She talked about the Community Health Improvements policty where its helps improves peoples health and diet and reverse disease. She also talked about CSA which is the Community Supported Agriculture where you can buy a share of farmer's crop each week for 20 weeks and they deliver a box full of vegetables each week that are local grown and organic. She also mentioned that Wellworks is funded through memberships and services; and they are evaluated through surveys. Francie covered alot of it the other week so please so my other blog!
Janine Faber the RD from Meijer came in and talk to us. She covers Dayton, Columbus, Cincinnati, and Lexington areas. I loved hearing her talk about her job although I don't see myself doing it. The goal of the Meijer Healthy Living program is to increase sales and promotes customer loyalty by creating and communicating health solutions and product knowledge to shoppers. The RDs that work at Meijer host community events such as health fairs, expos, presentations, and cooking demos, have in-store events like disease management, taste of Meijer, media events like talking on the radio or on tv and have publications such as the Healthy Living Naturally Magazine. She gave us two the April and May additions and it was fun to read and see the different articles and recipes they as a team create. Janine and another member also post on pinterest which I thought was really neat but pinterest is awesome! She also talked about NuVal Nutrition Scoring System. I love this program and I wish every grocery store had this. NuVal really would help shoppers buy more nutritious foods and I think it would help improve the health of the community as a whole. NuVal also shows that you don't always have to pay more for nutritious products because alot of the time they are cheaper anyway! You can't beat that! Janine and the team of RDs are funded through sponsorships. Each company sends a list of products that can sponsor them such as McCormick, Plantarts, and the company will pay to be apart of the program then Meijer will try and incorporate them in their media segments. The team will look at the product and look at the NuVal score to make sure it is healthy to advertise
May 3, 2012
Heidi Anderson from Wellworks came and talk to us today. She is the special events coordinator. She does alot the marketing and public relations of Wellworks. One thing she stressed was collaborating with other agencies helps make things run alot easier and is less stressful. She talked about the Community Health Improvements policty where its helps improves peoples health and diet and reverse disease. She also talked about CSA which is the Community Supported Agriculture where you can buy a share of farmer's crop each week for 20 weeks and they deliver a box full of vegetables each week that are local grown and organic. She also mentioned that Wellworks is funded through memberships and services; and they are evaluated through surveys. Francie covered alot of it the other week so please so my other blog!
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