Announcements:
1. Next week is Thrive. “Thrive is a week-long series of events focused on building positive mental health for UBC students, faculty, and staff”.
- Nutrisocial will be participating in thrive week. At next week’s meeting, Friday November 9 at 12:00, we will be having an event.
- We will have five different stations set up each with a different theme and of course…food samples!
- Check out the calendar for Thrive Week, here
2. We are looking for volunteers to help with our Thrive booth presentations. If you are looking to gain experience in:
- Presenting
- Project work
- Poster design
This is an opportunity you do not want to pass up. Yourself and another presenter will create a poster to be displayed at your station. To view the different stations descriptions, please check out this document.
3. Keep your eyes peeled and your ears open. We are planning on having a potluck after Christmas break as well as we are thinking of field trip ideas.
Minutes:
Meeting Coordinator: Samira
- Opened meeting by presenting the fact that strawberries are the only fruits with seeds on the outside.
Speaker: Courtney
Discussed the negative and condescending attitudes that can come with weight loss:
- Criminalization of certain foods.
- Mass amount of money being spent on supplements, shakes, pills and juices that are not properly researched.
- Improving quality of life by enjoying real food.
- Making food with others can bring families, communities and friends together.
- Personal opinion is that everything should be enjoyed in moderation and that foods should be made with real ingredients.
Table Topics: What do you think about cleanses?
- Master cleanse:
- Consists of lemon juice, water, cayenne pepper and maple syrup.
- Some members have seen individuals on cleanses and they appear to be healthy and feeling great.
- When people stop cleanses they often feel tired and gain back any weight they had lost.
- It is difficult to determine the validity of cleanses as not enough research has been done on them.
- If a diet is being followed, it is important to be monitored.
- Cleanses and weight loss programs are often expensive and ineffective in the long term.
- Has been limited evidence that cayenne pepper, turmeric, garlic and onion act as mild toxins and result in the body increasing elimination.
- Cleanses out there include: bee pollen and watermelon and candida cleanse.
- Having breakfast shakes every morning can lead to health issues.
Thank you for everyone who came out to the meeting this week. We had some interesting opinions on cleanses. We hope to see you all next week at our Thrive event.
Peace
