Episodes
Monday May 22, 2017
Monday May 22, 2017
(Recorded 5/18/17)
Although there is no shortage of research examining American’s perceptions around food, there is remains little consumer research helping unpack factors that drive food purchasing decisions. This session will highlight new research illustrating purchasing trends as well as specific factors contributing to food busy habits across the lifespan. This session will showcase the latest IFIC Food & Health Report findings, now in its 12th year.
Learning objectives:
1. Understand current food purchasing habits and how they have changed over time.
2. Understand how factors like income, gender, chronic disease, and education affect food purchasing and eating behaviors
3. Recognize differences in food purchasing and eating behaviors between baby boomers, older adults and the general population
4. Learn who consumers are turning to for nutrition information, and confusion in the food information landscape
Liz Sanders, MPH, RDN is Associate Director of Nutrition and Food Safety at the International Food Information Council Foundation. In addition to writing educational materials on various food and nutrition topics, Liz manages the planning and implementation of the yearly IFIC Foundation Food and Health Survey. Liz is a fervent science advocate, dedicated to delivering sound nutrition information with relatability and wit.
Before joining IFIC, Liz served as a nutrition educator in a variety of settings including diabetes self-management and community health centers. Liz received her undergraduate degree in Biology from Oberlin College, and is a graduate of the MPH/RD combined program in Nutrition at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
When she’s not writing for Food Insight, you can find her on the stage performing improvisational comedy with Washington Improv Theater.
Alex Lewin-Zwerdling is Vice President, Research and Partnerships. In that role she oversees IFIC’s consumer research, tracking the latest in food and nutrition trends, habits, perceptions and other factors that affect what drives America’s eating habits. Alex also develops IFIC’s partnerships across sectors, from food and agriculture companies and nutrition leaders, to public health experts, government agencies and others.
Alex joined IFIC from AARP Foundation, where she oversaw the organization’s hunger and nutrition research and strategy. In addition, Alex was a Vice President at Weber Shandwick where she served as a communications and nutrition expert for many food, agriculture and health care clients. Alex has also spent time at the United States Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Services and the Pew Charitable Trusts. She is the 2016-2017 Chair of the Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior’s Advisory Committee on Public Policy.
Alex holds a PhD in Nutrition, as well as a Master’s in Public Administration and Bachelor of Science, all from Cornell University.
Monday May 08, 2017
Monday May 08, 2017
(Recorded 5/4/17)
Speakers: Robert Bertram, PhD, Chief Scientist for USAID’s Bureau for Food Security and Trudy Wijnhoven, PhD, Nutrition Officer for the Nutrition and Food Systems Division (ESN), FAO
This webinar will introduce the Global Food Security Act of 2016 and expand on America’s current efforts to help promote food security around the world. Speakers will provide perspectives from the U.S. Agency for International Development and Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations to explain the current situation of global nutrition issues and progress made to alleviate global concerns such as hunger, chronic health issues, and mortality. Suggestions will be discussed on how other health professionals and nutrition educators can pitch in to reduce global food insecurity. Webinar sponsored by the SNEB Division of International Nutrition and the Advisory Committee on Public Policy.
Learning Objectives:
o Describe current U.S. efforts in international food systems work and the plans to reduce poverty/hunger and improve nutrition in needed countries
o Compare and contrast the current U.S. efforts and United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals to reduce global food security
o Discuss international perspectives of global nutrition issues from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
o Identify ways that nutrition educators can work with international entities to promote global food security
Thursday May 04, 2017
Thursday May 04, 2017
(Recorded 5/2/17)
Speaker: Monica Kazlausky Esquivel, PhD, RDN, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa
http://www.jneb.org/article/S1499-4046(16)00071-3/fulltext
Strategies to improve teacher health status and behaviors included in a multi-component policy intervention aimed at child obesity prevention may produce a greater effect on classroom environments.
Learning objectives:
1. To review the literature on factors that affect the efficacy of child care center wellness policy implementation on the obesogenic environment within preschool settings.
2. To discuss how the Children's Healthy Living Program child care wellness policy intervention was designed to address multiple levels of the socioecological model to positively influence the nutrition and physical activity environments in Head Start classrooms.
3. To identify key strategies and lessons learned from this program that could support effective wellness policy implementation in child care centers to address childhood obesity.
Monica Kazlausky Esquivel RD, PhD is a nutrition lecturer in the Department of Human Nutrition Food and Animal Sciences at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and Director of the Health Promotion and Disease Prevention at Wai‘anae Coast Comprehensive Health Center. Her work focuses on health promotion and disease prevention efforts that are multi-level in nature and community based. Monica completed her doctoral graduate studies in nutrition at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and was a recipient of a Children's Healthy Living Program for Remote Underserved Minority Populations in the Pacific Region training scholarship.