Food & Nutrition - Seminar Topics
Supermarket Tour: Making Sense of Food Labels (S)
Join Thea in this “tour” and you will learn how to distinguish advertising hype from the sound nutritional information found on food labels. Using a range of food products and hands-on examples, you will soon become skilled at reading and understanding the health claims and nutrition panels on food labels. Buy the best product for your health and your dollar.
Have Your Cake and Eat It Too – A Guilt Free Approach to Healthy Eating (S)
Today our attitudes to food and eating are so riddled with moralism that we assess our own “goodness” and “badness” according to what we eat. Such approaches to food only create fear and guilt which get us nowhere, except back to the diet treadmill or the packet of Tim Tams. This seminar will examine the power of removing moralism from our food choices and tuning into our bodies as an effective way of adopting a lifelong and guilt free approach to healthier eating.
Mindful Eating (S, W)
Countless acts of mindless eating occur every day - takeaway coffee for breakfast, lunch at the computer, in the car or no lunch at all, fatigue-prompted afternoon sweets, or fast food in front of the TV for dinner.. These speed-eating habits can contribute to a range of eating and digestive problems. Learn how to enhance your ability to eat with greater awareness and so improve your food choices, digestion, capacity to savour, and ability to stop when full.
Psychology of Eating (S)
What does your eating style say about you? And why do we eat when not hungry? In this seminar you will discover the psychological drivers of your eating behaviour – whether it’s the need for comfort, love, distraction, power or control. This insight helps free you from non-hungry eating (putting food into our mouths to satisfy emotional or psychological needs), and so restore balanced eating.
