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To add value to your next conference or association meeting, contact us today to book this best-selling author and Registered Dietitian for an informative, authoritative and entertaining seminar.
Click on any seminar title below for more information. PowerPoint presentations will be adapted for specific audience interests and accompanied by discussion.
and, for professional groups with an interest in addictions and recovery:
On lifestyle and the emerging trend of cohousing:
1. Optimal Nutrition
Vesanto Melina, Registered Dietitian and co-author of 7 well loved books on nutrition, foods, and disease prevention, will share tips, based on the latest research, to help you meet your nutritional needs and reduce risk of chronic disease (cardiovascular disease, various cancers, diabetes, obesity). Discover healthy, delicious and easy ways to get the nutrients you require. Vesanto Melina will pass along tips on nutrition from decades of working with the public and with health professionals across North America, as we successfully shift towards diets that are increasingly plant-based.
2. Optimal Vegetarian Nutrition
Are you vegetarian, or is your diet shifting in a vegetarian direction? Keep up-to-date with the latest on plant protein, iron, zinc, omega-3 fatty acids, and nondairy sources of calcium. Discover simple and tasty ways to meet your nutritional needs on a plant-based diet. Vesanto Melina is co-author of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada’s Position Paper on Vegetarian diets and co-author of the international bestselling classics “Becoming Vegetarian” and “The New Becoming Vegetarian”.
3. Optimal Vegan Nutrition
Vesanto Melina is a Registered Dietitian, co-author of “Becoming Vegan”, and has herself been vegan for 14 years. Discover the latest research on entirely plant based diets, including raw diets. Find excellent alternatives for dairy products from breakfast and throughout the day. Have your questions answered and keep up to date in this lively field of nutrition research. Learn how to keep yourself in top condition and meet all of your requirements with a vegan diet that fits your lifestyle.
4. Food Allergy Survival Guide.
This fascinating presentation covers the latest on food sensitivities, including:
testing how to successfully meet the nutritional requirements of adults and children despite one or more food sensitivities alternatives for the top eight food culprits improving intestinal health recent research on links between diet and conditions such as arthritis, asthma, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Candida, depression, dermatitis, digestive disorders, fatigue, and headaches practical tips resources.The "Food Allergy Survival Guide", by Registered Dietitians Vesanto Melina, and Dina Aronson and chef Jo Stepaniak gives 180 pages of delicious recipes that are free of the top eight allergens (dairy, eggs, soy, wheat/gluten, fish, shellfish, peanuts, and tree nuts), including outstanding baked goods for those with gluten sensitivity. (See www.foodallergysurvival.com)
5. Vegetarian And Vegan Diplomacy
Whether they're vegetarian, vegan, or non-vegetarian, we love our friends and relations – though at times they may drive us mad- and we, them. Here's a lighthearted look at building bridges and spanning differences, wherever our loved ones are on the dietary spectrum. Vesanto Melina, discusses vegetarian diplomacy from the perspective of having done everything wrong and having fallen flat on her face an immense number of times. She is co-author of the well-loved classics "Becoming Vegetarian", The New Becoming Vegetarian", "Becoming Vegan" and "Raising Vegetarian Children"; all of which contain sections on dietary diplomacy. This hour-long session is half presentation, half discussion among those present. (No audiovisual equipment is needed)
6. Plant Protein Power
Are plant proteins 'incomplete'? Do they lack essential amino acids? Must you carefully combine plant foods, to achieve high nutritional value? Do some people require animal protein?Learn answers to these questions and discover the origins of myths that have led us to undervalue plant protein in human diets. These myths have led to ways of eating that support heart disease, cancer & other chronic diseases, instead of top nutrition. Find how to meet protein needs with plant foods, at all ages, all activity levels and for all people.
7. Nutrition for Lifelong Vitality
Learn how your diet can reduce your risk of chronic disease and keep you in tip-top shape. Discover delicious foods that support lifelong bone health and help prevent disease. This lively presentation includes practical tips on foods and preparation, and can be arranged to provide tasting as well. Vesanto Melina is a strong supporter of moving into our later years with great health and vitality.
Note: This session can be tailored for women in the second half of life, including peri-menopausal women's health issues.
8. Food Cravings, Addictions, and Blood Sugar
What you eat and when you eat can be powerful allies (or foes) in helping you control sugar and junk food cravings. Those with out-of-control eating, alcoholism or diabetes in the family will benefit by learning about: blood sugar patterns, glycemic index of foods, and menus that help stabilize metabolism and mood. Learn how whole grains and legumes can assist. Discover easy, tasty ways to fit health-supportive foods into busy lives.
For professional groups with an interest in addictions and recovery:
9. Nutrition, Addiction & Recovery
For health professionals and recovery programs.
Food and nutrition can play powerful roles in recovery programs. Using PowerPoint, discussion and dietary assessment we cover these topics:
1. Recovery - an excellent time to take an interest in good nutrition.
2. Blood glucose patterns, sugar, coffee, nicotine and stress; glycemic index.
3. Eating for recovery: dietary assessment; menus, recipes and relapse prevention.
4. Alcoholism can be linked to eating disorders and other addictions, thus it is important to find deeper levels of support.
5. Good nutrition is an essential component in quality, long term sobriety.
On lifestyle and the emerging trend of cohousing:
10. Living In Community: Cohousing
Across North America, cohousing communities, the 21st century version of the village, are providing a new and heartwarming way to live. These communities express many ideals such as trying to leave a lighter ecological footprint, share meals, learning to live with compassion for other beings, and finding safe and happy ways to live in community. In this beautifully visual presentation, Vesanto Melina will introduce you to the concept of cohousing, touch on exiting communities and present features of her own, Windsong Cohousing Community in Vancouver, British Columbia.
To discuss or arrange a seminar, E-mail vesanto@nutrispeak.com
or phone Vesanto Melina at 604-882-6782
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Vesanto Melina, MS, Registered Dietitian, did her under graduate and graduate work at the University of London, England and the University of Toronto. She has taught nutrition at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and at Seattle's Bastyr University. She is co-author of the most recent “Position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada: Vegetarian Diets” and the Vegetarian Nutrition section (Chapter 10) of the American Dietetics Association's Manual of Clinical Dietetics. Vesanto is widely known in the media -press, TV and radio and regularly consults for government and industry from Langley (near Vancouver) British Columbia.
