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Intelligent Nutrition and Cal State San Marcos Join Forces to Fight Childhood Obesity and Diabetes in California
Fun Presentations Set a New Standard for Nutritional Education
SAN DIEGO, CA – March is national nutrition month, and students at Cal State San Marcos have helped Intelligent Nutrition develop a pilot program to educate third, fourth, and fifth graders on how macronutrients (protein, fats, and carbohydrates) are used by the body. Getting down to the science of food can be fun and this week, the students at the Children’s Creative and Performing Arts Academy in San Diego (CCPAA) will participate in morning rap songs, meal games, and a “Final Jeopardy” competition to learn how they can protect themselves from diabetes and obesity and to teach their parents a few scientific facts in the process. This program has been specially designed over the past two years to ensure a fun and interactive experience that children would remember for the rest of their lives.
Obesity and diabetes health risks are increasingly prevalent among our youth. Central to changing this trend is educating children at the crucial time of life when bad habits can be reversed. According to the Center for Disease Control, three out of four children who are obese at age 12 will be obese as an adult, with serious long-term implications. “We need to lead a cultural transformation, and we can’t let it be dwarfed by the other headlines of the day,” was the message given by the U.S. Surgeon General two months ago at the Obesity Conference in San Diego. Regina Coffman, founder and CEO of Intelligent Nutrition, has developed a solution for this transformation. Ms. Coffman and students at Cal State San Marcos have volunteered to teach children new ideas for staying healthy.
Piloted in San Diego, the Intelligent Nutrition Program is setting the new educational standard for nutrition in California schools. Future goals are to expand the program throughout the United States. There is overwhelming evidence that the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s outdated Food Pyramid is a harmful way of eating as reported by the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. Documented in Harvard’s 20-year study and explained in Dr. Walter Willet’s book, Eat Drink and Be Healthy, the RDA and Food Pyramid recommendations were based on thin evidence and scientific guesses. Now that we have scientific evidence after 20 years of enormous discovery, school administrators, like Janet Cherif, Principal at CCPAA, the pilot school, are anxious to implement a curriculum that can clear up the confusion created by the past. As the nation searches for a better way to standardize and replace the food pyramid, Intelligent Nutrition has already proactively blended nutritional biochemistry and technology into a patented program that even an 8 year old can understand.
“The individuality of each human being is an important consideration when determining proper nutrition, and the scientific data can no longer be ignored,” mentions Dr. Andrea Cole-Raub, whose patients use Intelligent Nutrition’s program as key component in Cole-Raub’s longevity protocol in Del Mar, California. Other informed advocates of Intelligent Nutrition’s program are Henry’s Marketplace, The Training Club–Del Mar, Amber Palowski (registered dietician and president of WIC), and I.D.E.A. (which is the International Dance and Exercise Association that certifies fitness professionals and personal trainers). All are all behind the nutrition program after reviewing its guidelines.
Through this educational partnership, schools financially benefit when families contribute to bringing the program into their homes; this may be a healthier and more lucrative alternative than the revenue granted for the placement of snack and soda machines on campuses. With help from Intelligent Nutrition, schools can gain much needed financial assistance from the program sales and children grow up happier and healthier.
Learning how different foods affect the body in different ways is the first step. In an interactive setting, children learn the food science basics on the first day, all about meal planning on the second, and finally their knowledge is tested and fun prizes are given on the third day, during Final Jeopardy. Gathering in the school auditorium, the children will participate in fun and interactive learning so they can answer questions such as: “Where does insulin come from and when is it released? What is diabetes? Why is it better to eat protein or fat with carbohydrates than to eat carbs alone? Which part of our cells is harmed eating hydrogenated fats? In what ways can Omega-3 Essential Oils help us and what foods provide them? Can you name five protein foods?” Now that these important questions are on your mind, maybe it is time to take a refresher course with Intelligent Nutrition’s educational program and tap into their updated nutritional information for weight management and dietary education.