Nutritional Weight & Wellness helped illustrate to my staff of early childhood educators the value and direct relationship between nutrition and behavior.  What goes into a child’s body inarguably impacts their learning experiences, attitudes and social interactions.  If we want to set up a child for success, we need to start by setting the table.

Many parents were mortified when they learned what the food they fed their child everyday contained.  Due to clever advertising many of us (parents) think we’re providing healthy options for our children.  Unfortunately, we live in an age where foods with a low percentage of trans-fat can be labeled “trans-fat free”.  If an apple only had a little bit of arsenic in it, would it be ok to say it’s healthy and arsenic-fee? 

Nutritional Weight & Wellness is about more than weight.  Wellness addresses our need for clarity, enjoyment, fulfillment and health.  Hearing real-life applications of nutritional choices that I can make to improve my life was empowering.  What was more important is learning how I can impact the life of my child.

Roz Zuest

Director

Mount Olivet Learning Center

The seminars Nutritional Weight and Wellness provide include an expansive list of interesting health topics applicable to any population.
The nutritional recommendations presented are based on the most recent studies, introducing concepts that are new to the general public.
Nutritional Weight and Wellness seminars educate and challenge the way our attendees think about nutrition and stimulate discussion after the seminars.
Attending their seminars can be an eye opening experience, learning that the body truly reacts to everything eaten and food can literally be your medicine.
Angela Croisant, BS, ACSM HFI
Fitness & Wellness Specialist

Advantage Health Corporation

Fantastic – Informative – Eye Opener – These were just a few words heard from employees after the Stress-Busting Food class held at our company.  Employees are still talking about the class and how they enjoyed the class and how much they brought home to share with there families.  With this economy and the stress everyone and their families are facing, it’s good to help employees and their families out any way possible.  Employees at Egan Company loved the class.
Bonnie Ouradnik
Egan Companies, Inc.

June 29th Wendy Cates-Dancer did a presentation on Foods for Great Energy for Ricoh Business Solutions.  Our expectation was to learn how to eat right to maintain balanced energy throughout the day.  Wendy exceeded our expectations and many have implemented better eating habits, which has helped them have great energy.  Another benefit is that a couple of our employees have been consistently loosing weight since the class.  Ricoh thanks Nutrition Weight and Wellness for having a vision of educating people to eat right and improve the quality of their lives!
Laurie Weed
Western Division Development Manager
Ricoh USA

Staff Comments

-Very good information and well worth our time to attend.

-It is refreshing to learn that real foods are actually good for us to eat and that we can stop enduring low fat foods that are so lacking in sustenance.

-Great to have NWW back again this year; they really help keep me on track.

-Wow, I can eat and feel energized and still lose weight!   

The City of Ramsey

As a gift to the board members of my son's newly formed non-profit group, Sober Way Living, I asked Dar to speak to the group on the importance of good nutrition in maintaining sobriety.  The group provides housing and support services for those newly in recovery.
We were able to have several from the group attend this session and discussion with Dar.  The information was straight forward and thought provoking for the members.  The Power Point presentation looked at many aspects of the typical American diet and how it affects serotonin and neurotransmitters in the brain. This session helped them to realize the importance of making good protein choices and the need to reduce the sugars and bad fats.  Dar gave them the tools to make simple changes in food choices that create balance and support sobriety.  It was a simple concept and something that they can share with clients.  Maybe everyone should be making a protein shake rather than grabbing another diet soda!  Food for thought...
Elaine 

“Our staff really enjoyed the presentation and most said that they learned important things about nutrition that they didn’t know. We asked so many questions that the speaker could barely get through her presentation, and she was nice enough to stay longer and answer some of our burning questions. Our staff rated the presentation one of the highlights of our six-week wellness campaign.”

Mary Hennessey
Industrial Fabrics Association International

“The presenters were knowledgeable and easy to understand. Their friendly, comfortable presentation style made it easy for attendees to ask questions. I also liked the content; they didn't just reference statistics and nutrition charts.”

Doug Byrnes

Gymnastics Head Coach

Hamline University

We had 100+ staff attend. The training was very relevant to all our personal health. Staff gave me the “high 5” as they walked out of the training. We will definitely call for more training.

Roxann Roushar
Director of Child Nutrition
Eden Prairie Schools