Speaking and Presentations

Prevention is the key and eating healthy is one of the most important strategies you can choose to prevent obesity and other chronic diseases. Catherine can offer a variety of presentations and workshops for your business or organization. She has experience speaking at schools, parent groups, support groups, scouts, senior groups, and private business. Each presentation is customized to meet the needs of your group or organization.

Popular Nutrition Topics include:

• Heart-Healthy Eating
• Dietary Guidelines for Americans
• Why Change My Plate?
• Weight Management
• Evaluating Weight Loss Programs
• Managing Chronic Kidney Disease
• Lupus and Your Diet
• Body Image and Eating Disorders
• Fit for Life
• Fad Diets…Are We Past That?
• Nutrition for Seniors
• Human Rights and Food Choices

Wellness Programs

Are you looking for ways to improve the health, morale, and productivity of your employees? How about a wellness presentation or program? Catherine will take her knowledge of nutrition and health and break it down into practical steps to inspire you and your employees to improve their health and become more productive. She will work with you and your organization to customize a program to meet your needs. Programs may include presentations, lunch and learns, workshops, cooking demos, weight loss challenges, and nutrition awareness tables.

Popular wellness topics include

• Heart Health and Diet
• Healthy Aging
• Preventing and Managing Type 2 Diabetes
• Allergies and Food Intolerances
• Combatting Obesity
• Weight Management for Life
• Gut Health

Catherine has years of experience working with adults who have intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). She can provide nutrition support for individuals living in group homes, host homes, medical homes, residential facilities, or with families or caregivers.

Individuals with IDD are at an increased risk for developing chronic diseases and obesity related to a poor diet. She offers a variety of services to help manage and prevent many health and weight issues. These include nutrition care plans, nutrition assessments, menus, recipes, meal plans, training classes, diet instructions, individual counseling, supermarket tours, and mealtime assistance plans. See Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD) for details.

It is a well known fact that when children learn to eat a variety of foods in the first few years of life that they are less likely to develop weight problems and other chronic diseases as adults. Kids love learning about nutrition and food! Catherine has years of experience working with children and teens. She will provide hands on activities, presentations, and workshops which will stimulate learning and help your students develop healthy habits to last a lifetime.

Popular Nutrition Topics for Children include:

• My Plate and Kids
• Eating a Rainbow
• Fun Snacking
• Body Image and Preventing Eating Disorders
• Fit for Life – Nutrition and Sports
• Healthy Eating on the Run
• Meal Planning for Busy Teens
• Best Fast Food Options
• Is My Beverage Making Me Fat?
• Preventing the Freshman 15

Today’s consumers have a greater desire to eat healthy. Many insurance companies are offering incentives in exchange for adopting a healthier lifestyle. Nutrition messages are coming in from all directions these days - social media, internet, TV, infomercials, magazines, and advertising. Nutrition information overload and nutrition misinformation can make choosing healthy foods more confusing. Your customer may have been told by his or her health care provider to cut back on sodium but may feel overwhelmed with all the choices. Catherine can help your customers by showing them how to separate nutrition facts from fads and come up with practical solutions for achieving their health goals. This will give shoppers more confidence and skill in making better food choices. Your customers will love having a nutrition expert right when they need one. The store will benefit as well because your customers will want to come back.

Popular services

• Providing nutrition information through in-store publication
• Promoting wellness programs and health-related themes
• Cooking classes
• Shopping tours for adults
• Nutrition programs and tours for kids

Popular topics

• Understanding Food Labels
• Heart-Healthy Eating
• Mediterranean Diet
• Vegetarian Diets
• Managing Food Allergies
• Processed Foods and your Health
• Managing Diabetes with Food Choices