Staying Healthy in a Culture That’s ANYTHING BUT!

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Celebrity nutritionist Zonya Foco, RDN, is one of the most exciting, inspiring, vital and unforgettable speakers in America. After graduating from Eastern Michigan University, she began her career at the Michigan Heart and Vascular Institute in the 1990’s when the low carb/low fat diet wars first began. Zonya has maintained an open mindset remembering to “never be down on what she’s not up on”, know what really matters is the food lifestyle that people can live joyously for life. And that is not the same for everyone! This led the way for her creating and delivering nutrition education for both treatment and prevention of heart disease, diabetes and obesity. From there, she began hosting Zonya’s Health Bites, her weekly PBS show that has aired across the nation for over a decade. She is the author of the fastest way to healthy, Lickety-Split Meals and Eat REAL cookbooks, as well as the creator of numerous courses on blood pressure, cholesterol, diabetes, depression and weight management. Her high energy crossed with low maintenance solutions makes healthy living fun and doable for all. Learn more at Zonya Foco

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Zonya Foco receives compensation as a professional speaker, publisher, and author. She receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Zonya Foco is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the National Speaker's Association.

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Objectives

1. Examine the underlying forces behind the obesity/diabetes epidemic and encourage two specific actions for leading our culture in a total paradigm shift to optimize health.  
2. Utilize simple strategies to re-wire the brain and create innate healthier food preferences for improved health outcomes and condition management.  
3. Understand the value and power of "community" (be it fellow workers, neighbors, family members or communities both physical and virtual) in making lasting, life-changing lifestyle habit changes to promote mental, emotional and physical health.  

Outline

Conference Kick off / Icebreaker: Energy Pump Up with Music               

• Lead everyone in BRAIN GYM, adapted from Paul Dennison and Spark by John Ratey.  
   

Why it’s so darn heard to stay healthy in a culture that’s anything BUT     

• If you’ve ever wondered why it’s hard to keep extra weight off…it’s not your fault!  
• Advertising Budget Comparisons 
• CDC “More Matters” program to promote Fruit and Veg 
• Reese’s 
• M and M’s 
• Burger King 
• McDonald’s 
• Our food culture, portion sizes, hyper-palatable ultra-processed foods  
• Sitting: The New Smoking 
   

Steps to Re-wiring the Brain…it starts with REAL FOOD                      

• SUGAR: Where it hides…what to replace it with 
• Kid’s have hijacked bliss points too 
• The problem with Processed meat:  Cancer  
• The cancer-fighting impact of cruciferous vegetables 
• The dementia fighting/breast cancer fighting effect of mushrooms 
• Why beans, berries, nuts and beans should be consumed daily 
• Why WHOLE food really makes the difference 

How as a health professional you can be a “conviction maker/change maker” 

• Ways to inspire change in  
• Your HOME culture 
• Your WORK culture 

• Q/A                                                                                                                           

• Final Metabolism Booster to break up sitting                                                    

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Marriage and Family Therapists
• Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners
• Occupational Therapists
• Occupational Therapy Assistants
• Physician Assistants
• Other Mental Health Professions