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About the Class: |
Eating Lessons and Super Foods will show you how early feeding experiences shape food preferences and eating behaviors. Discover how lemons provide anticancer fighting properties and how cabbage may help fight off viruses. Understand which foods provide children with the best opportunity for healthy growth and development. Learn family mealtime dos and don’ts that promote healthy eating and recognize the importance of introducing a variety of health enhancing foods to minimize children’s genetic risk factors and optimize their personal biochemistry. Find out how parent’s eating habits influence a child’s eating habits for life and the steps one can take to grow a healthy family.
Objectives of the session
- Identify early feeding experiences that shape food preferences and eating behavior.
- List family mealtime dos and don’ts that promote healthy eating patterns.
- Recognize developmental milestones that signal a child’s readiness for solid foods.
- Distinguish between food refusals that are normal and transitory versus those that require intervention.
- To recognize the importance of introducing a variety of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and beans in a child’s diet
- To be able to list the benefits of specific phytonutrients, (plant compounds) and their role in wellness and disease prevention
- To be able to state how eating these foods can help your child grow at a healthy weight
- To understand how a parents eating habits, specifically a mother influence and shape their children’s eating habits
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About the presenter:
Melissa Halas-Liang
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Melissa Halas Liang, MA, RD, CNSD, CDE is the Program Coordinator and an instructor for the Professional Certificate in Nutrition for Optimal Health, Wellness, and Sports. Melissa is a Registered Dietitian, with a Masters in Nutrition Education, is a Certified Diabetes Educator and a Certified Nutrition Support Dietitian. In addition to working in clinical management and clinical nutrition she has assisted in clinical trials, taught small group diabetes classes, and counseled patients on weight loss. She has spoken on a wide range of topics in the community including disease prevention and treatment, fitness, and sports nutrition. Melissa has published articles in periodicals on healthy eating and edited textbook nutrition sections. She has developed curriculum's for medical residents and lectured to health care professionals for continuing education credits on a variety of topics. Her commitment to cardiovascular health, promoting physical fitness and the prevention and recognition of diabetes is remarkable.
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