Senior Nutrition students had a lot on their plates hosting the annual Pangea Café take-over event – everything from planning meals to cooking in the kitchen. But the real key to their success, they say, is teamwork.
Category: Nutrition
To encourage high school students to choose healthier options at lunch – and throughout their lives – two OSU dietetic interns are working to make healthy eating the more attractive choice through simple marketing techniques.
“I truly hope that our intervention empowered the villagers to eat healthy and be more mindful of their dietary intake,” says Nutrition student Rosa Keller, who studied abroad in Thailand.
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Child obesity
Everyone knows that Americans are too fat and getting fatter. Fully two-thirds of adults and one-third of children tip the scales at unhealthy weights. But figuring out what to do about a problem so tightly stitched into the cultural fabric is a big unknown.
Future OSU Nutrition students will carry forward Home Economics alumna Elsie Crail Richardson’s legacy thanks to the endowed fund her daughter has created in her honor.
A group of over-50 Deschutes County residents got their groove on as music from a Wiggles children’s tape streamed from speakers. Behind them a kitchen was ready for the brain-beneficial menu next on the agenda. The fun had just begun.