The UBC Learning Circle invites you to participate in our Aboriginal Nutrition Webinar & Videoconference series. This series of sessions about the relationship between healthy eating and wellness throughout the life course is presented by health professionals from the First Nations Health Authority. Join Registered Dietitian Gerry Kasten (FNHA) and his sous chef Joel Liman, the new Aboriginal Student Coordinator for the faculties of Land and Food Systems and Science, as they explore some delicious recipes that are tasty and kid-friendly. They’ll be cooking and tasting the recipes, all the while talking about the foods and activities that make your family fit and healthy. They will also be discussing feeding kids – “How much?” and “What kinds of foods are best?” This promises to be an eye-opening and tasty session about the basics of healthy eating! All are welcome to attend and participate in this FREE live videoconference and computer webinar session.
Date: Thursday, January 23, 2014
Time: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Where: Participate live via videoconference OR computer webinar. Want to know the difference between videoconference and computer webinar? Click here to find out.
Learning Objectives At the end of the session participants will be able to:
- Prepare the recipes included as demonstrations
- Identify the four food groups in Canada’s Food Guide
- Identify the key qualitative concepts for choosing foods from the four food groups
- Identify alternative foods that can be used to meet nutrient needs when one or more of the four food groups are being avoided
- Relate the broad concepts underlying the Glycemic Index
About the Presenter 
Gerry Kasten has worked with food all of his life. He was born to a farming family and still helps his brother bring in the harvest each year. He has received an Honours Diploma in Commercial Cooking, and Bachelors & Masters degrees in Nutrition. He has worked in Public Health in British Columbia for the past twenty-two years and is also a Sessional Instructor in UBC’s Dietetics program. He is currently the co-chair of Health Canada’s Infant Feeding Expert Advisory Group. He wants to live in a world where people celebrate food, sharing it with those they love, taking its pleasure without restraint because its flavour saturates their most sensuous appetites.
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Cookbooks & Resources
Below is a list of cookbooks and resources that Gerry recommends for healthy eating:
- A Feast for All Seasons – Andrew George Jr. and Robert Gairns
- Where People Feast: An Indigenous People’s Cookbook – Dolly and Annie Watts
- Nourishing the Community – Recipes and Stories – Vancouver Native Health Society – Keisha Amanda Charnley
- Elders of All Nations – Vancouver Native Health Society – Connie Mitchell and Rebecca Dunham
- Our Food Our Stories – Edited by Annie Jack for Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities
- First Nations Healthy Choice Recipes – The Chinook Health Region & the Southern Alberta Aboriginal Diabetes Coalition
- Dietitians of Canada – Simply Great Food – Patricia Chuey, Eileen Campbell, Mary Sue Waisman
- Better Together BC: http://bettertogetherbc.ca/
- HealthLink BC Healthy Eating: http://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthyeating/
- Traditional Food Fact Sheets: http://fnha.ca/Documents/Traditional_Food_Fact_Sheets.pdf
- Healthy Food Guidelines for First Nations Communities: http://fnha.ca/Documents/Healthy_Food_Guidelines_for_First_Nations_Communities.pdf
- First Nations Food, Nutrition & Environment Study: http://www.fnfnes.ca/
- First Nations Health Authority healthy eating website: http://fnha.ca/wellness/wellness-and-the-first-nations-health-authority/wellness-streams/healthy-eating
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