Category Archives: Minutes

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:
    • https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AhBnjMIpVVWrdEhYS1JlQjBGSzkwZHU4RGVZSkdPMmc&usp=sharing
• 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.

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
  • Eating disorders:
    • Must have a shift in society.
      • Acceptance

• 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…

• 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!

• Get ideas from Pinterest, Tastspotting, Finding Vegan.
• Using cookbooks.
• Learning from your family and friends.
• Links: http://pinterest.com/ , http://www.tastespotting.com/, http://www.findingvegan.com/

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.

• If you are interested in being a presenter please email us at: nst.ubc@gmail.com.

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

Minutes:

General Announcements:
1) Food Safe Level 1:
If you are interested in signing up for Food Safe Level 1, here is the sign up information.  If you are planning on applying into dietetics you require it for one of your courses.  It is also a great thing to have on your resume and it is often required for many jobs in the food industry!

• When: Saturday November 3rd, 2012 from 9am – 5pm  (everything is covered in one day)
• Where: FNH Building – Rm 50
• Cost: $65 for CAFP members, $70 for non members (cash-only)
• Payment Deadline: October 20th, 2012 – FNH Building will be closed on weekends, please email me if you can’t drop off the money at the office by October 19th.

Registration:

• Reserve your spot by emailing: cristel155@gmail.co
• Payment and reservation Deadline by Saturday October 20th, 2012
• Pay your registration fee at the FNH office on 2nd floor in an envelope labelled with your full name, membership status (member or non-member), and email address.
• Space is limited; it is on first-come, first-serve basis.
• Please note that your spot reservation is not confirmed until you pay the fee. Otherwise, it will be given to the next person on the waiting list.

2) Congratulations to our new executive team members:

• Events planner: Katie Mak
• Web Tech: Jamie Chan
• Vice President: Samira Rahmani

3) We are anticipating a guest speaker for our next meeting, October 26th.  We will keep you posted with updates.

Meeting:

Members Present: Jamie Chan, Alena Safina, Katie Mak, Samira Rahmani, Shimi Amid, Gurjot Dhaiwal, Courtney Gault, Robyn Turner, Ghazal.

Meeting Coordinator: Courtney

• Discussed thoughts on women who lost 85 pound on “Starbuck diet.” Starbucks Diet
• Viewed news article about McDonalds putting their nutritional information on their drive through and in store menus: McDonald’s Article

Tips Master: Samira

• Do not always rely on medication.  The body is smarter than we know and our body’s response to illness such as increased mucus production and a fever.

Grammarian: Robyn
Wernicke’s Aphasia: Wenicke’s Aphasia
Broca’s Aphasia: Broca’s Aphasia

Speaker 1: Samira

• Discussed the Maillard Reaction
• Idea that when foods undergo browning reactions, the sugar undergoes chemical change and is no longer digestible.
• Used example of buying cookies from the grocery store:
  • The cookies may have less sugar than stated on the nutrition facts table as some of the sugar is not digestible.
• Increased browning reactions mean less digestible (but also formation of additional compounds which may be carcinogenic or have a negative impact on health).
• Lysine, an amino acid, is lost in browning reactions.

Table Topics: What is your opinion on vegetarian diets?

• Must be careful with your iron and vitamin B12 status.
  • Meat and other animal products are sources of highly concentrated vitamins and minerals.
• Importance of variety in the diet.
• Must take into account the availability of food.
• Difference between heme and non-heme iron.
  • Heme is more bioavailable and is more easily absorbed by the human body.
• Issue of many women being anemic and requiring iron sources that are more readily absorbed.
• We discussed The China Study and its validity.
• We discussed issues of putting a child on a vegan or vegetarian diet.

Overall we had a very interesting meeting filled with discussion.  I hope everyone is gaining confidence so they can sign up for roles such as being a speaker or meeting coordinator in the future!

Have a great week and see you at our next meeting!

Minutes

Announcements:
Next week is meeting as usual:

• Please sign up for roles and start gaining public speaking experience.
• To enhance your leadership skills, consider signing up as Meeting coordinator.

Members Present: Katie Mack, Samira Rahmani, Shirley Gu, Theresa Price, Taryn Miller, Jay Zhou, Sanam Attaran, Stephanie Goh, Jamie Chan

Meeting

Election Day!
Each candidate spoke as to why we should vote for them.

• The winners will be announced at our next meeting on October 19th.

Presenters:
Emme guest presented her directed studies project: Introducing a worm compost into the AMS SUB kitchen operations.  If you have questions you can send them to me and I will pass the questions to her.

See you next week!