Best Healthy Eating Presentation

 I attended a senior health event and heard Carole Bartolotto, MA, RD, Senior Consultant, Regional Health Education, Kaiser Permamente give a talk, "Eat Well for Your Health! Current Trends in Healthy Eating." During her presentation it was obvious that she had read massive amounts of current valid research on her topic.

When the nut cases started asking all their stupid questions such as, "My doctor at UCLA who is a leading expert in his field, a Ph D. teaching doctor, and a Nobel Prize winner said blah, blah, blah." She was able to counter with, "What is the doctor's name? I teach doctors about nutrition. According to the over whelming amount of research that I have read he is wrong.

She went after supplements in a big way. She showed slides of bottles whose labels said it contained St Johns Wort purchased from Walgreens or Sprouts and revealed that tests showed that it contained no St. Johns Wort. Many similar examples. She showed that supplements are not only a waste of money (provide you with very expensive urin), but also may be dangerous.

Her slides comparing side by side  unhealthy and healthy meals on a similar plate were visually spectacular. Much more convincing than numbers.

Bottom line, we all need to eat more vegetables and less meat, salt sugar, fat.

Best talk on healthy eating to date.

USC Please Contact Your Satelite

I just received this "invitation:"

The League of American Orchestras in association with the USC Arts Leadership Program presents The Essentials of Orchestra Management

July 7-16, 2015

This summer, the 2015 Essentials of Orchestra Management workshop will be hosted by USC Thornton School of Music.

Seminar Details
July 7 – 16, 2015
USC Thornton School of Music
Los Angeles, California
Application fee: $60                              
 Tuition & Housing: $3,512

1. I like true invitations, not ones inviting me to empty my wallet
2. Last year at the USC satelite, the Colburn School, during one of their "Art Speaks," the guest speaker told  Colburn music students that very few of them would find  jobs in orchestras because an alarming number of US symphonic groups are going bust.
3. My question is, "What orchestra are these potential administrators going to manage after they spend $3,512 to supposedly learn how to do it?
4. Who are going to be the teachers? People from failed or failing orchestras?