General Announcements:
- Valentine’s day truffle making workshop.
- February 12 from 4-5 p.m. in the SUB room 212 A
- $10 for non-members and $5 for members
- Bring a container.
- If you are interested sign up via this link:
- If you are interested in becoming part of the executive team, elections are coming March 8th.
- Please send us an email at nst.ubc@gmail.com if you are interested and we can keep you posted on our elections.
Meeting:
Tips Master: Samira
- To combat cold and flu symptoms, use garlic extract
- Benefits of garlic:
- Contains prebiotics, which support gut health.
- Inulin rich, supports good bacteria in the gut.
- Benefits of garlic:
Grammarian: Courtney
- Rice bran oil: a trending oil available on the market that has been advertised by Dr. Oz.
- May have slightly higher nutrition…although probably does not make much of a difference.
- Advertised as being gluten free, although most oils, such as olive oil, should be gluten free (depending on how and where they are processed).
Table Topics: Cathy:
- Topic: Is obesity more than an energy imbalance?
- Point brought up that everyone has a “set point weight:”
- Not everyone can be that a perfect weight.
- Genetics definitely play a role.
- Emotional factor behind food:
- What is people’s motivation behind eating?
- Move more into mental health issues-look to the root of the problem.
- Environment:
- Neighbourhood and income.
- Mineral deficiencies?
- Thought to cause increased appetite as the person craves what they are missing.
- Soils in the lower mainland is lower in nutrients (water-logged).
- Psychology:
- Pushing ourselves too hard:
- Eating disorders.
- Extremists
- Pushing ourselves too hard:
- Eating disorders:
- Must have a shift in society.
- Acceptance
- Must have a shift in society.
- Point brought up that everyone has a “set point weight:”
- Overweight death rate: Skinny and unhealthy individuals have a higher death rate than overweight and healthy individuals.
Table topics 2: What do you think of Dr. Oz?
- Many people subscribe to Dr. Oz.
- Three products: Ketone bodies, green coffee bean extract, L-carnitine.
- Raspberry ketones:
- Only based on rat studies.
- Green coffee bean extract:
- Thought to increase metabolism and weight loss.
- Unsure about the validity of this…
- Raspberry ketones:
- Three products: Ketone bodies, green coffee bean extract, L-carnitine.
- Amino acid L-carnitine:
- More studies have been done on L-carnitine.
- Thought to potentially aid memory and digestion.
- Issue of short term solutions with weight loss products.
- Do no like how Dr. Oz uses his credentials as a doctor to promote pseudomedicine that is not proven…commercialized weight loss, anti-aging etc.
- Breeds a culture that desires quick fix solution.
- Person who is responsible for own health is you.
Thank you to everyone who showed up to the meeting today!
See you next week!