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Objectives |
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Overall Conference |
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| To support youth and adults in adopting enjoyable and healthy lifestyles related to food, physical activity and body image by: |
- Presenting current issues and research, practical tips, and personal, family, school, and community perspectives
- Showcasing available resources, highlighting successful projects, and providing skills and tools.
- Providing networking opportunities that foster development of initiatives and collaborations.
- Celebrating the diversity of health, regardless of body size, shape or age.
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Individual Sessions |
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Wednesday afternoon, April 23, 2007 – The Power of the Environment |
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- Brian Wansink: From Mindless Eating to Eating Better Mindfully
As a result of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Describe how a person's immediate environment leads them to mindlessly overeat
- Identify 3 ways that people tend to overeat without realizing it.
- Explain how to prevent mindless eating by changing their home environment.
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- Susan Linn: Consuming Kids: How marketing undermines children’s wellbeing and what we can do about it
As a result of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Discuss how marketing and commercialization affect children's overall health and well being.
- Explain how marketing and commercialization influence lifestyles related to food and body image.
- Take action to counter and reduce the influence of marketing and commercialization in the lives of young people.
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- Dan Burden: Whole, Happy, Healthy Lives: Creating communities that support active living
As a result of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Identify common community-level environmental and institutional barriers to easy and enjoyable walking and bicycling and other forms of active living.
- Explain the need for individuals and groups to take action to change relevant policies and the built environment where they live, work, and play.
- Describe techniques and approaches to create complete communities that are more walkable, bikeable, and active.
- Bring about change by conducting evaluations and initiating model programs.
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| Thursday morning and afternoon, April 24, 2007 – Food and Eating: Well Being from the Inside Out |
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- Jennifer Orlet-Fisher: Are healthy eaters born or made? The development of young children’s eating behavior
As a result of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Outline genetic or unlearned aspects of the behavioral controls of eating and food preference.
- Describe the influence that caregivers and other adults have as providers, role models, and educators in relation to children’s eating habits.
- Highlight practical implications for feeding young children.
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- Martha Marino: Welcome to the Table: Pleasurable Family Meals
As a result of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Describe societal trends affecting the frequency of family mealtimes.
- Cite research supporting the nutritional and psychosocial benefits of family meals.
- Explain how family meals can impact students’ wellness and success in school.
- Describe tools and techniques that could be used by school staff, community educators, and parents to encourage families to eat together.
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- Karin Kratina: Afraid of cookies? Exploring food-body relationships
As a result of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Explore what it means to live with and teach self-acceptance in a fat-phobic world.
- Describe successful skills and techniques used by dietitians and educators who have implemented this approach in their work.
- Move toward a deeper understanding of their own relationship with food, physical activity and body image.
- Recognize traps to avoid when addressing these issues with adults and youth.
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| Friday morning, April 25, 2007 – Shaping Healthy School Environments |
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- Russell Pate: Promoting Physical Activity for Health Enhancement of Youth
As a result of this presentation, participants will be able to
- Explain the health benefits of physical activity during childhood and adolescence.
- Describe the influence of gender, age, and body composition on physical activity in youth.
- Explain current approaches to assessment of physical fitness in youth.
- Describe effective interventions to increase physical activity in youth.
- Identify currently recommended policies for increasing physical activity through school-based initiatives.
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- Dayle Hayes: Strong Bodies, Smart Minds: Strategies from successful schools
As a result of this presentation, participants will be able to:
- Identify ways to raise money, reward children, and celebrate good health.
- Cite research between student health and academic achievement.
- Identify resources for school wellness policy implementation.
- Explain how participants can be wellness champions.
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| Friday afternoon, April 25, 2007 – Post-conference Workshops |
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- Lynn Walters & Jane Stacey: Cooking with Kids
As a result of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Name at least three principles or tips for successful food preparation with children.
- Identify their own cooking comfort level and competency.
- Practice appropriate food preparation skills for teaching children to cook, with an eye toward appeal, safety, and cost.
- Describe learning opportunities inherent in food preparation activities.
- Feel increased confidence in engaging one or more youth audiences in activities using fresh, affordable, healthful foods.
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- Pam McCarthy: How to be more influential: Simple ways to be an effective change agent
As a result of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Discuss the relevance of influence in educational and counseling settings with adults.
- Confront their own assumptions about influencing audiences.
- Identify strategies for connecting more effectively with their audiences.
- Develop a plan to increase their influence with their audiences.
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