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Throughout my position over at the HERC as a nutrition
education cooridnator, I see people all of the time
doing nutrition analysis.
One thing we frequently hear from people is I don't have
time to eat healthy, or I live in the dorms, we don't have
access to healthy food.
All they talk about is how if they live in the dorms
they can make Ramen noodles and that's it.
So by hearing all of these things all of the time, it
made me think, hey, let's do something to make it so that
from their dorm room in the ease and convenience of using
just simply the microwave, they are able to make some really
good foods for them that are both appetizing and healthy.
One of the emphasisses of our graduate dietetics program
is nutrition education.
So what Sarah has created is a program where she's actually
implementing that nutrition education focus as she's
teaching students here on Eastern's campus about
eating healthy and ways that they can learn very easily
how to eat healthy within their dorm rooms using
simple things like microwaves.
Well, it's a 2-hour session from 6:00 to 8:00 over at Klehm,
and what we're doing the first half of the session,
we're actually talking, doing the lecture, the information,
the learning part, of what we're going to be doing.
It's broken up into three sessions.
We started off with breakfast, and then the second session
is covering lunch and dinner, and the third session
is covering snacks.
So we talk about the importance of each of these, incorporating
where your calorie consumption should be coming in from,
how many portions you should be getting, talking about the
wide variety and breaking it up between each of them where
it's more tailored to each topic.
Then, following the lecture, the second half of it
we'll actually do the food preparation.
We're utilizing the microwaves found in the Klehm laboratory
and actually taking the foods and each student is preparing
each of these foods.
It can help you realize how easy it really is, so it was great
hearing that they actually learned something and
they actually want to implement it in their own lives.
I think this is a continuation of what we do in Family and
Consumer Sciences, because we are all about the people
out there and ways that we can help.
So the project that Sarah put together for this time of the
semester has been an extension of that.
I think it has been successful, and it's been enjoyable, and
the students are coming to it, so that tells us something.
Throughout my position I do many programs, with one of them being
the healthy cooking program, and this really has geared the
direction to my future path because before, I didn't really
know what I wanted to do.
But after doing these programs and having this interaction
with the students, it really makes me see that this
might be something I want to go into, doing program-based,
doing things with students.
I love the interaction, and I think it is a great thing.