nutrition for workplace wellness heather baillie p.dt
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Nutrition for Workplace Wellness
Heather Baillie P.Dt
Where do you get nutrition information?
Nutrition Information
The internetBooksNewspaper, Magazines, News Research articlesFriends, family Doctors, health professionalsDietitians/Nutritionists
Fact or Fiction?
A Low Carb diet will help you lose weight.
True, at first. But not healthy, or sustainable.
Fact or Fiction?
Multigrain is Whole grain.
False.
Fact or Fiction
Frozen vegetables are not as healthy as fresh.
False.
Fact or Fiction?
Honey, maple syrup, brown sugar and concentrated fruit sugars are healthier than white sugar.
False!
Fact or Fiction?
Thinner is healthier
False.
Food Labels
We can look at the nutrition facts table to compare products
Compare fat, sodium, fibre, sugar
What are you really eating???
Ingredient List
Do you know what these ingredients are? Oats Sodium bicarbonate Tocopherols Carageenan Ascorbic acid
What are you really eating???
Do you know what these ingredients are?DextroseTriglyceridesTartrazineSulphitesMonosodium glutamateSilicon dioxide
What is this food product?
1. Ingredients:Oats
2. Ingredients:Durum whole grain whole wheat semolina
3. Ingredients:Whole grain wheat, soybean oil, salt
What is this food product??
Ingredients: Water, Corn Syrup, Hydrogenated
Vegetable Oil (Coconut and Palm Kernel Oils), High Fructose Corn Syrup, Less than Two Percent of Sodium Caseinate (from Milk), Natural and Artificial Flavor, Xanthan and Guar Gums, Polysorbate 60, Sorbitan Monostearate, Beta Carotene (Color).
How do we know if a packaged food is healthy?
How can we bring healthy eating to the workplace?
http://www.actnowbc.ca/media/08-024%20Eat%20Smart%20Meet%20Smart%20Booklet%20-%20May%2026.pdf
How can you celebrate nutrition month or promote nutrition in your workplace?
Ways to Celebrate Nutrition Month!
Share healthy recipesProvide fact sheets (find from government
web-sites or DC websites)Share healthy meal and snack ideasProvide copies of Canada’s Food Guide,
and other resourcesTips for healthy cooking and bakingTry a new healthy cookbook together
Picture References
1. Slide 1: Good Food Display. National Cancer Institute1988.2. Slide 1: U.S. Dept of Agriculture 2011. Nutrition and Consumer
Services Kevin Concannon during his visit to Nottingham Elementary School in Arlington, VA,
3. Slide 1: Salad. Author unknown. Found through wikimedia.org 4. Lemon photo: Photographer: André Karwath 5. Slide 7: Basket of Apples. Author: Sven Teschke6. Slide 7: Maple Syrup. Author: Dvortygirl. 7. Slide 8: Vegetables. 2007. Author: Biswarup Ganguly 8. Slide 8: Biking. U.S National Whitewater Center 2007. 9. Slide 9: Pasta aisle. Grocery coupons 201010. Slide 16: Plate of cookies. Photgrapher: Dan Smith. 11. Slide 16: Bananas. Author: Andrius Burlega