Health Focus Teleclass Series

As of January 1, 2006 - the Health Focus Teleclass Series Recordings are no longer available for free downloading.

However, I left the descriptions of the classes below, and invite you to contact me for more information on a particular topic and/or how you can purchase any of the recordings.

Sincerely,
Margie

Marjorie Geiser, RD, NSCA-CPT
MEG Fitness
http://www.marjoriegeiser.com
http://www.megfit.com
"Designing Effective Classes by Phone:
Success Through Teleclasses"
margie@megfit.com
909-867-7317

Mindful Eating

Guest Speaker Jennifer Motl, RD offered some helpful tips on how to manage food intake and serving sizes and discussed tools to help learn how to understand levels of hunger. A website that Jennifer mentioned was http://www.nourishingconnections.com/. For the Stay Attuned Tools she mentioned, find the 'Stay Attuned Tools' link to the left.

Healthy Lunch Ideas For You and Your Family

With school soon starting back up, you may be wondering what types of choices to feed your family, as well as what will you eat when the kids are all gone and you're home alone. Or, perhaps you're ready for some new choices for your workday, too! Listen to Margie discuss her favorite lunch ideas.
For more tips on ideas for healthy lunches, here are some good websites:
www.dole5aday.com
http://www.parents.com/articles/food_fun/5765.jsp

Disordered Eating

Katie Ellingson provided information on disordered eating, including the warning signs, symptoms, psychological and physical characteristics for all types of eating disorders. She also included how to approach someone with an eating disorder and where to get help for friends and loved ones. Katie Ellingson is a Registered Dietitian and a Health Fitness Instructor (HFI). She is currently in private practice in California, where she specializes in the nutritional treatment of eating disorders. With the combination of nutrition and fitness training, she helps clients achieve a balanced, healthy lifestyle.

For listeners who would like to contact guest speaker Katie Ellingson, her email address is kellingson_rd@yahoo.com and her phone number is 619-822-8882.
In the class, Katie provided listeners with several websites to look into for referrals and more information. Here are the websites:
http://www.edreferral.com/
http://www.something-fishy.org/
http://www.gurze.com/

Supplements for Menopause

Margie discusses the three top supplements that are popular for relieving menopausal symptoms.

Healthy Kitchen Cleanup

Reyna Franco took us on an interactive tour of our kitchen cupboards, refrigerator and freezer. We took a look at the foods stored in our kitchen and discuss the various products to determine how they fit (or don't fit) into your healthy eating goals. Reyna Franco is a registered dietitian with a masters of science in nutrition and exercise physiology. She provides nutrition and exercise assessment and counseling for sports nutrition, weight loss and management, children, adolescents and families, pre- and post-natal nutrition, and various medical conditions. To go along with the class, for those listening to the audio recording, Reyna wanted to
include this link of the class outline, http://www.streamload.com/megfit/Healthy_Kitchen_Cleanup_handout.pdf.
For anyone would like to contact Reyna for more information or about her services,
you can go to http://clicks.aweber.com/z/ct/?GJlZeqE5hiJ2etrYawux9A.

Diabetics Basics

Margie discusses the different types of diabetes, defines glucose and insulin and explains
how they work together, and talk sabout how the different macronutrients
metabolize and effect blood sugars. She then explores the role exercise
plays in diabetes, things to beware of for people on insulin, and then
discusses how to life peacefully with diabetes, with you controlling it,
rather than it controlling you. Margie mentions several websites that she wanted
to share:National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at http://www.niddk.nih.gov/Comparison of the fast insulins at http://www.diabetesnet.com/diabetes_treatments/insulin_humalog.php#Humalog

Hot Topics in Sports Nutrition

Hyponatremia and fueling muscle development. Guest speaker Ellen Coleman, RD, MA, MPH is the nutrition consultant for The Sport Clinic in Riverside and author of Eating for Endurance 4th ed.

For anyone who wishes to contact Ellen privately, you can email her at Ecolemanrd@aol.com. The website she talked about at the end of the class is http://www.taketotalcontrol.com/TTC/default.aspx. For RD's who would like an online presentation of what the site to has offer, go to this
site: http://www.taketotalcontrol.com/presentations/dietitians/index.html