Nutrition and Health
Please check upcoming classes under Classes and Events. If you are interested in having a class for a group, please contact Sheila Beckley at sbeckley@weld.gov. All classes can be delivered in person or online.
Dining with Diabetes
Dining with Diabetes is a series of four classes where you will learn strategies to manage your diabetes through menu planning, carbohydrate counting, portion control, and label reading. Participants will have the opportunity to see how healthy foods are made utilizing concepts taught. Includes 11 recipes with live or video demonstration, food preparation techniques, and helpful and practical handouts.
Meal Planning with Confidence
Learn to plan meals to save time and money and benefit your health! Includes meal planning template, recipe guides, grocery shopping template and other practical handouts.
Mediterranean Diet
What do vegetables, olive oil, red wine, fish, and whole grains all have in common? They are all key foods in the Mediterranean diet. Many long-term health benefits have been associated with following a Mediterranean lifestyle, including weight loss, reduced blood pressure and cholesterol, and reduced risk for various chronic diseases. But it’s not about cutting calories and restricting foods like many popular diet trends in America today. Rather, it’s about enjoying foods you like and eating them mindfully and leisurely. This workshop will help to answer your questions about key characteristics of the Mediterranean lifestyle and how you can incorporate Mediterranean foods and habits into your life! Includes recipes and recipe demonstrations.
High Altitude Baking
Learn the science of high elevation and the effects it has on baking. You’ll also learn how to understand recipes and how to adjust them to high elevation.
Cooking Under Pressure
Learn how to use an electric multicooker to safely prepare healthy foods from the Mediterranean Diet! Topics include how to use the settings on an electric multi cooker, how to adjust cooking time for increased elevation, how to select foods from the Mediterranean diet to add to meals, and how to properly clean an electric multi cooker. Includes recipes and recipe demonstrations.
Gut Health
Would you like to learn more about your gut and how it affects your health? This seminar may help to answer your questions on a range of topics from supporting gut health to probiotics, providing reliable research-based information. Additionally, there will be an interactive activity to help you learn specifics on the benefits of yogurt. After attending the seminar, you will have a deeper appreciation for the important role our guts play in keeping us healthy. Realizing it’s not just human cells hard at work, but billions of bacteria spread throughout our digestive tract. I’ve got a gut feeling you should attend.
Nutrition Trends
Given the countless “experts” and information overload on how to lose weight, energy, or healthiest diet plans, how do you uncover the truth? This program explores current nutrition claims and trends, including gluten-free diets, organic food health benefits, keto diet, paleo diet and protein’s role in weight management. You will learn the science and be provided with actionable recommendations for each topic. Additionally, specialists will teach how to spot nutrition misinformation. This will empower attendees to decipher fact from fiction and become a savvy consumer. An interactive activity will provide “real-world” situations to help you make informed decisions when confronted with a new nutrition trend.
Nutrition Basics
Feeling a bit overwhelmed with all the different nutrition “guidelines” out there? You are not alone! With so much information, it is hard to know where to start. Would you like to learn more about nutrition basics and how to meet your individual nutrition goals? This seminar may help to answer your questions on basic nutrition. Additionally, there will be an interactive activity to help you set individual nutrition goals. After attending the seminar, you will have a better understanding of what a healthy eating pattern is, how to create one, and how to maintain changes in the future.
Nutrition for Older Adults
Learn how to make healthy food choices to prevent or control health issues and maintain your independence! Topics include nutrients that become of greater concern as we age and their food sources, why older adults are at an increased risk of dehydration and how to avoid it, and challenges older adults may face in achieving good nutrition and strategies to overcome these.
GMOs and Health
This seminar may help to answer your questions on a range of topics, including genetic engineering, common GMO crops and traits, their regulation, safety, and labeling, and arguments for and against the use of GMO foods. This seminar will aim to provide the most recent, reliable research regarding GMO foods. After attending this seminar, you will have a greater understanding of the implications of GMOs in our food supply, and we hope that you will feel confident in making decisions about the use of GMOs and what you choose to consume.
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