Tomorrow is the start of a new semester.
Online students look for an email message sent to your email of record with the college. If you are stuck logging onto the Blackboard Course System, see the Blog Page on Blackboard.
Face to Face students I will see you on Monday or Tuesday.
Add comment August 24th, 2008
People are wondering what kind of a role model Michael Phelps is going to be to the growing population of overweight and obese children. His choices of foods to sponsor and endorse caused many child obesity experts to denounce his endorsements.
Kellogg Co. announced on August 19 that Michael Phelps, winner of eight gold medals at the Beijing Olympics, will be featured on upcoming boxes of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes and Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. No longer is Wheaties the breakfast of champions in stead it’s Tony the Tiger’s GREEAATTT cereal.
Phelps has also been serving as ambassador for a program sponsored by McDonald’s to bring Chinese children to the Olympics and serve them American fast food. Consumer Health advocate Mike Adams, offered these words on the questionable choices being made in endorsing these products:
Olympian Michael Phelps is currently an active participant in this “junk food imperialism” that’s sweeping through China, ensnaring hundreds of millions of children in a junk food diet that may doom many of them to deadly diseases later in life.
The Children’s International Obesity Foundation (CIOF) believes that celebrities should think twice before choosing to endorse or encourage the consumption of any product which is inherently unhealthful to children, especially if that product is correlated to obesity, diabetes, and a myriad of dangerous conditions.”
Douglas Castle, Senior Adviser to CIOF has pointed out that
“Public figures like Michael Phelps exert a major influence over our youngsters. Mr. Phelps is a superior athlete by any measure, but his judgment regarding the McDonald’s and Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes endorsements was either ill-advised by his handlers; the irrational product of too much blood sugar; or a sad triumph of greed over good.”
Let’s hope that the public outcry will cause them to reconsider or at least the parents of the children being targeted to reconsider supporting the endorsed products.
Add comment August 22nd, 2008
The most important thing for you to do during the first week is to take some time and determine a study plan.
Figure out when your exams and assignments are due, mark them on a calendar or day planner.
Decide how you are going to budget your time to learn the material and complete the assignments. The “Course” Page of this blog includes many helpful resources and assessments to help you figure out how to assess your study skills and manage your time.
Also included are suggestions and tips that I have compiled for the Nutrition students including Tips for Success in Nutrition & Wellness, Tips for Learning the Lecture Material and General Study Tips.
Taking a look at these resources early in the class, getting yourself organized for the semester will help you to succeed in the Nutrition and Wellness Course.
Jenny W. Get Organized. Royalty Free Use.
Add comment August 21st, 2008
The “Online” Page of this blog includes a variety of Tips for students to improve their success in distance education.
This page includes “Are You Ready to Learn Online?” a great introduction from Cerro Coso College, on to determining if you are ready to take an online course. I highly recommend that all online students take some kind of self-assessment to determine if their learning styles, study and computer skills are in line with taking an online course.
There are also some Suggestions for Being a Successful Online Student, part of the Online Orientation for Columbia College Students along with links to Other Online Self Assessments.
For students who are near Columbia College, the College offers “How to Succeed as an Online Student” or CMPSC101 is offered both Fall and Spring semesters and is designed as an orientation to online learning and our current online course management system, Blackboard Learning System.
Image Sources:
Steve Woods. Surfing 2. Royalty Free Use.
Add comment August 20th, 2008
The Airborne company has fined $30 million by the Federal Trade Commission for false advertising, namely claiming Airborne can help reduce the length of a common cold. The makers of Airborne tablets have agreed to pay $30 million to settle the lawsuit.
What is Airborne?
According to the Airborne Company’s website:
Airborne is a dietary supplement that was created by a school teacher. Airborne is a proprietary combination of 17 vitamins, minerals and herbs.
The key ingredients in Airborne have been shown to help support a healthy immune system as shown in scientific studies and medical journals.
Airborne was created by Victoria Knight-McDowell, a second-grade teacher who got tired of catching colds from her students.
She started selling the product in 1997, three after Congress voted to allow dietary supplement makers to claim their products have an effect on a body structure or function, such as the immune system. Claiming to cure or treat illnesses requires FDA approval.
No Tangible Evidence to Support the Claims
Lydia Parnes, director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection said that “There is no credible evidence that Airborne products . . . will reduce the severity or duration of colds, or provide any tangible benefit for people who are exposed to germs in crowded places.”
Consumers who bought Airborne products between 2001 and 2008 have until Sept. 15 to apply for a refund for as many as six purchases, the FTC said. Claims will be paid by Oct. 15, 2008.
The FTC action adds $6.5 million to a previous class action settlement in which Airborne agreed to pay $23.5 million in customer refunds and attorney fees.
When I looked for Airborne on Amazon, the ‘Immune Boosting’ formulas were listed as being currently unavailable, but they had a whole host of other options, including a formula for children.
Add comment August 16th, 2008
According to the fifth annual F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America, 2008 report from the Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) the adult obesity rates increased in 37 states in the past year. The report was released in August 2008.
Rates rose for a second consecutive year in 24 states and for a third consecutive year in 19 states. No state saw a decrease in rates of obesity.
According to the study, even though many promising policies have emerged to promote physical activity and good nutrition in communities, these policies are not being adopted or implemented at levels needed to turn around this health crisis.
Statistics from the Report:
Source: Healthy Americans. August 2008. F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America, 2008
Download the Report: F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies Are Failing in America, 2008
Add comment August 11th, 2008
This lecture was developed to help explain We’re All Winners, an educational activity, a day created to build self esteem, promote healthy eating and encourage children to be physically active.
We’re All Winners
“We’re All Winners” is an educational fitness activity designed to let young children have fun, learn a bit about being safe in the sun and then participate in a non-racing, solo running activity.
The main goal of the event is to create an environment in which each child gets to feel special, like a winner and goes home feeling and believing for at least one day that “I’m a Winner!” This is the message that we want them to internalize and to believe.
This educational activity an idea that I developed while my young daughters were in pre-school. We staged for five years in the pre-school or kindergarten setting and last year also put on a modified version for my older daughter’s first grade setting.
Thanks to Docstoc, you can watch the lecture online. Simply click on the arrow to start the presentation:
More information about how to stage your own activity can be found online at the We’re All Winners page, http:www.squidoo.comwereallwinners
Note: This lecture is copyright under Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs license.
Add comment May 29th, 2008
This guest lecture was developed for HHP 300, Fitness Maintenance course at Columbia College to teach life-long learners how healthy lifestyle choices regarding eating, exercises and stress management among others can help them to life a healthier life.
Thanks to Docstoc, you can watch the lecture online. Simply click on the arrow to start the presentation:
Note: This lecture is copyright under Attribution-Non-Commercial-NoDerivs license.
Add comment May 27th, 2008
The graphic for this blog header and the Blog Avatar (the Kiwi) were adapted and inspired from an incredible image by Meliha Gojak called Slice.
Using “Slice” I was able to create very appropriate and appealing graphics for a Nutrition course.
Image Source: Meliha Gojak. Slice. Royalty Free Use.
Add comment April 19th, 2008
Welcome to the Nutrition and Wellness Blog established for Bio 50, the Nutrition course taught by Dr. Kirsti A. Dyer at Columbia College.
This blog will be used in addition to the Course WebCT shell for teaching the Biology 50 Nutrition & Wellness course.
The purpose of creating the blog is for
The blog will be launched and available for use with the Fall 2008 session.
Add comment April 18th, 2008
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