Random Day Off = Fun

Happy Thursday afternoon! I thought I’d write a little about vacation days today. Next week will mark my one year anniversary at work, my first “real” job. I have been told that the number of PTO days I received was very “generous”, compared to other of my new-grad friends. Still.. anything less than 30 seemed [...]

Giving Back

I had a great meeting today with the local school district, basically a progress meeting on our Go, Slow, Whoa program. You can read more about the program here. Last school year we implemented the program in 3 elementary schools, and we’re launching it in 4 more within the next few weeks. My part is [...]

Precipitating Tuesday

Rainy Tuesday – not a bad day to be stuck inside the hospital instead of wishing I were outside in the nice spring weather (or at least wishing for a window to see the nice spring weather). Exciting news — Looks like I have some work lined up with yet another nearby school district. Met [...]

Go, Slow, Whoa!

Work was a little on the slow side, so I did some research for my school nutrition projects. I’m currently working with some local schools here in East Tennessee on implementing the NIH’s “Go, Slow, Whoa” program. A really fun and easy concept – foods are categorized into the color-coded Go, Slow, Whoa, and kids [...]

Today’s Lesson

I’ve been doing lots of reading/researching today on nutrition news, partly for my high school presentation that I’m still working on. Some really interesting things I’ve come across: A study out of Austria has shown that young adults with beginning signs/symptoms of schizophrenia might benefit from taking fish oil, possibly prevent psychotic episodes. That would [...]