by Joan Kent | Jul 21, 2015 | Engage Your Students, Health and Wellness
Part 1 covered getting participants to stop eating foods they hate and also avoid stress-driven, high-calorie blowouts or using food as entertainment. Here are two more things you might wish your participants would stop.[wlm_private...
by Joan Kent | Jul 13, 2015 | Engage Your Students, Health and Wellness, Master Instructor Blog
Most IC instructors have the client”™s best interest at heart. We may not all agree on every point, but we do want our participants to do well, get the results they seek, and feel great. That probably goes not just for how they work out, but for what they eat, as...
by Joan Kent | Jun 22, 2015 | Health and Wellness, Instructor Training
The last post covered the sugar industry”™s push to demonize fats and take the heat off sugar. Unfortunately, it was successful. Here”™s what happened next. Recommendations for increased carbs came from everywhere -- including the 1991 Food Guide Pyramid. The bottom...
by Joan Kent | Jun 15, 2015 | Engage Your Students, Health and Wellness
The current nutrition buzz is that sugar”™s bad news. It is. The fact that admitting this is considered a new direction by nutritionists, dietitians and the public shows how off-base the nutrition field was for such a long time. It even makes the nutrition field...
by Joan Kent | Jun 1, 2015 | Engage Your Students, Health and Wellness
Recently, a client who very seldom gets sick and who is typically quite vigilant about her nutrition told me she got a respiratory infection. This brief post describes what she learned from not sticking with her nutrition guidelines and is meant to be a caution for...