Ophelia talks about wellness and nutrition
April 12, 2009
by The New Agenda
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Ophelia is thrilled to speak tomorrow night about something near and dear to each of us - our health!
We all have stress from every day life; but with this horrific recession it makes it all worse! We need to take a deep breathe and focus on ourselves. Take an hour out of your busy day and learn about how to improve your wellness and nutrition and make yourself feel better starting today!
This week, Ophelia welcomes Nancy Weiser of Weiser Choices. Here’s a bit about Nancy:
Nancy Weiser is a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and holds an additional certificate in health counseling from Columbia University’s Teachers College. Prior to becoming a health counselor, Nancy earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and M.B.A. from Penn’s Wharton School.
Nancy is the founder of Weiser Choices, a corporate wellness counseling business. Nancy specializes in helping busy parents prioritize their family’s health and nutrition in an overscheduled and hypercompetitive environment. She has been featured in The New York Times and has been a guest on Morning Living and Whole Living, both on Martha Stewart Living Radio/Sirius 112.
So grab your coffee, tea, water, wine or whiskey (but if you grab anything other than water don’t tell Nancy 
) and join us Monday, April 13th from 10-11 p.m. EST on Chewing the Fat with Ophelia.
I’ll try to remember. I scanned through her site, and really, I think it’s not quite nutritionally sound eating. It’s all about what my generation would call “eating high off the hog”, and eating what’s currently touted as some magic food.
What happened to the 100 mile diet? You don’t get tofu grown and manufactured within 100 miles of any north eastern U.S. market, do you? And talk about a processed food! Is there any food more processed than tofu?! What about eating food cooked from scratch. For example, chicken broth made in your slow cooker from a laying hen yields much more nutrition than even the most costly, organic chicken broth. If you make your own chicken broth, and other meat broths, you’ll never need to drink milk, or take calcium. The calcium from the bones is in the broth, accompanied by all the other minerals and nutrients you need to metabolize it completely. There is no finer source of calcium for us.
I read the NYTimes Well blog on nutrition, hundreds and hundreds of comments from real cooks, and I read and acknowledge the food wisdom of http://www.michaelpollan.com/article.php?id=87
Of course. I’ve almost always cooked and eaten this way. When I eat the way Ms. Weiser recommends, which I have on occasion, my food bill goes way up.
Children need to learn to cook, and take on responsibility for food preparation, and parents need to teach them, the old fashioned way.
That was great. Thank you.
It was lovely to hear your voices, your ‘accents’ (yes, to me you have accents). Vi different from Ms. Weiser and Ophelia who sound quite similar.
I made some notes and then lost it all. Can we listen again?
Sis, the show is archived and you can follow that same link anytime to listen to it.
I wondered how this would work in the the workplace: would the employer pay, are employees obliged to join, if they don’t, or don’t perform well, will they find they didn’t get that promotion they were expecting? Also, does product play any role; will there be this vitamin or that mineral sold, which is branded to one of the principals or advisors (Weil, for example).
Ms. Weiser mentioned antibiotics and why we should be careful in their use, saying if we take them we build up immunity to them. That’s true. But that immunity is because the bacteria changes to become immune to the antibiotic, out in the population. So it is the bacteria which develops immunity, not us. That’s my understanding. And then, we’re never ahead, and the bacteria keeps beating whatever new antibiotic is developed.
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