It’s been a wet, cloudy waterfront holiday on the Sunshine Coast of BC. I love my life, where I live, and the opportunities I have there. This, though, is where my soul lives. It’s good to be here.
What’s good around the web is a weekly series where I share some of what I’ve been reading around the web. Each week I’ll be posting links to five nutrition related articles, good recipes, and just general good reads. I hope you enjoy it! If you’ve got at article or recipe you’d like to see featured, please email me.
1. How to stop wasting food. Some good pointers here! I always keep my bread in the freezer, what about you?
2. Vitamin D deficiency in pregnancy increases the risk of low birth weight babies. I attended a lecture on this when I was doing my nutrition undergrad. The lecturer told us that in Vancouver we could stand outside buck naked all winter long and not get enough vitamin D. Now that I live much further north I take my vitamin D supplementation seriously.
3. This is crazy: NCAA rules limit players’ food intake.
4. Food giants, not magazine diets, endanger our health. Really interesting read.
5. Yessssss! Bring back Home Ec! Did you know I originally went back to school to be a Home Ec teacher? I quickly realized that the teaching I wanted to do about food and nutrition was on a different scale so switched directions, but food and nutrition education in schools is so incredibly important.
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Hi Katie – don’t forget to get a great picture of the mountains at 4:00pm today – they will be amazing – its sunny today!!
I love the article on the Food Giants!!!! Should get more coverage. Along with Home Ec we need inspiring teachers, like yourself, to get the kids hooked.
The mountains were indeed glorious. They are a piece of scenery I really miss when in Stockholm. The Food Giants situation is tricky. They basically have to give up profit in order for the population to become healthy.
I LOVE the Home Ec idea!! Rebranding it (kicking ASS!) is a great start, but I agree 100%– those life skills are so incredibly important, and so many kids aren’t learning them at home. I’m passing this on. Thanks for sharing!
Home Ec definitely needs to be rebranded! And it should be mandatory, for everyone.
Hi, Katie
It was good to meet you at the Christmas Open House (and thanks for cooking!) As a former Home Economics teacher, I agree whole-heartedly with the Home Ec article. I routinely told my students this would be the most useful course they would take. It’s alarming how little most people know about how to prepare good food at home.
It was great to meet you as well! Agreed, it really is alarming. Hopefully change is around the corner!
Thank you for interesting-looking articles. I’ve bookmarked them for reading now that I’m getting in gear for the new year. My daughter’s first Home Ec class, the pre-requisite for all the other courses in that section, was called “Real Skills”. In that she made cookies, pizza, biscuits, spaghetti, (I’ve forgotten the meat and veg) as well as a zippered duffel to use in gym class. She’s looking forward to starting “Prepare. Cook. Eat. Repeat.” the Home Ec class for second semester.
Happy New Year!
Sounds like a great home ec class! It’s so important to teach people how to cook and other real life skills. Looking forward to hearing how the next semester goes!
Vancouver is a beautiful place to live or just visit. It is no surprise that BC has a ‘Beautiful BC’ title written on their car plate numbers. Thanks for sharing!
Indeed, BC is one of the most beautiful places I’ve been – and I’ve travelled to a lot of very beautiful spots. It’s always nice to go back