{"id":177,"date":"2012-04-23T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eatrightutah.org\/blog\/?p=177"},"modified":"2012-04-23T10:00:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T16:00:08","slug":"national-nutrition-month-at-intermountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/national-nutrition-month-at-intermountain\/","title":{"rendered":"National Nutrition Month at Intermountain!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our guest blogger this week is dietitian Elaine Watkins from Intermountain Healthcare – recipient of one of the two National Nutrition Month (NNM) grants awarded by the Utah Nutrition Council!<\/em><\/p>\n

We had fabulous NNM celebrations at Intermountain facilities in the Salt Lake valley!\u00a0 We were so grateful for grant money to help make it possible.\u00a0 NNM table tents were set up on every table in the cafeterias of our 5 hospitals to spread the word about Getting our Plates in Shape.\u00a0 We also advertised with larger posters in strategic locations.<\/p>\n

Our healthy recipe contest was a big success.\u00a0 There was great participation with winning recipes Wild Salmon Salad and Whole wheat pizza with broccoli rabe and Turkey Sausage.\u00a0 We prepared the pizza recipe at Alta View Hospital, and there was a line out the door of the cafeteria to try it!<\/p>\n

Chef Frank Krause held cooking demos at Intermountain Medical Center to give us ideas for using more veggies and whole grains.\u00a0 All the hospital administrators attended one of the demos.<\/p>\n

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We also hosted nutrition fairs near the cafeterias of each hospital.\u00a0 We had displays to promote Choose My Plate, variety in whole grains\/fruits\/veggies, avoiding nutrition myths, healthy portion sizes, and RDs as the nutrition professionals.\u00a0 Sunkist donated Cara Cara oranges to give away to our visitors.\u00a0 We also had our “fat suit” on display so people could see what 20 extra lbs feels like.<\/p>\n

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Dietitians Bonnie Morris, Melissa Black, and Elaine Watkins<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Dietitian Emily Vaterlaus<\/em><\/p>\n

Each week in March we published an article in our newsletter, Stories, to advertise for events, share info\/pics about RDs and dietetic technicians, and\u00a0basic nutrition tips.\u00a0 With all of our efforts, we\u00a0hope we\u00a0spread\u00a0the word about National Nutrition Month\u00a0to the 6000+ employees!<\/p>\n

Lastly, we had a dinner to honor all the dietitians in the region.\u00a0 We celebrated with cheese and chocolate fondue (and some lean protein, fruit, and vegetables too!)\u00a0 Thank you to all our RDs for making a difference in our workplace!<\/p>\n

Thank you again, it was a great success!<\/p>\n

Do you have an employee newsletter where you can share nutrition information and healthy eating tips?\u00a0 Let us know how you reach out to employees as well as patients in the comments<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our guest blogger this week is dietitian Elaine Watkins from Intermountain Healthcare – recipient of one of the two National Nutrition Month (NNM) grants awarded by the Utah Nutrition Council! We had fabulous NNM celebrations at Intermountain facilities in the Salt Lake valley!\u00a0 We were so grateful for grant money to help make it possible.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-nutrition-month","tag-national-nutrition-month-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eatrightutah.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}