- 04 Jan 2024 16:11
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This project was researched by the University of Arizona and the units were done by them too. It was called Steps Forward or Pasos Adelante in Spanish. It was a 12 week course twice a week for three months plus a graduation celebration and each student that completed 10 of the 12 units got a certificate and a free gift card worth $100 dollars to a local grocery store.
I had to plan the props and the dialog and so on. Lots of exercise and there was a healthy lunch or breakfast included in each class free of charge. It took place at church basements, clinics, and community recreation centers all over Denver. They loved it. I loved doing it too. The first week talks about what makes people diabetic, have cardiac blockages and hypertension and thyroid and also cancers that are preventable. You start with really interesting videos and slides. You use in Spanish and so on discussions of how the human body reacts. You do tests and you tell them, if you drink sugary drinks this happens to your body. You literally give them water only and test them. Then you give them a small amount of sugary drinks. They test again. Many were shocked by the results. It is an awareness campaign. You tell them you see your body can only process at most 500 mg of sodium a day. If you eat this bag of chips? And then eat this other processed meat you are three times over the excess and your kidney has to respond and it can't flush it out, it will then react this way.
It was very specific. At the end of the course you see big changes. I thought it would be less effective but it turned out to be very effective. The key is SOCIALIZING Q. They loved talking, eating, doing things together and you make it fun. I would stop for a little dance. I would put on this song by this artist:
I would dance around. I choreographed it all. And talked about how all that bad ingredient stuff would be like a bad guy getting ready to do harm. I would dance around to that. They would laugh so hard! But they remembered it all.
I told them the truth I used to work near those two streets in Old San Juan called Calle Luna (Moon Street) and Calle Sol (Sun Street). It used to be the streets that were the poorest in Old San Juan. Not anymore. Hee hee.
Today is my birthday Q. I feel GREAT!! Another new year!
QatzelOk wrote:This is a fantastic project that you got to work on. But for this to become a national priority, wouldn't the president of the country (or the government) have to initiate some kind of program?
I realize that you reached a lot of people with your course, and that is was face-to-face, which is ideal for social encounters.
But to really initiate a change on a national level... wouldn't the central government have to get involved in order to ensure funding and consistency across the entire nation for this food-education program?
In Cuba, there are many schools for farmers that share ideas regarding farm technologies. Are there community schools for learning how to cook healthier meals using locally-sourced ingredients?
(This might help counteract all the pro-junkfood commercials (brainwashing) of commercial media)
This project was researched by the University of Arizona and the units were done by them too. It was called Steps Forward or Pasos Adelante in Spanish. It was a 12 week course twice a week for three months plus a graduation celebration and each student that completed 10 of the 12 units got a certificate and a free gift card worth $100 dollars to a local grocery store.
I had to plan the props and the dialog and so on. Lots of exercise and there was a healthy lunch or breakfast included in each class free of charge. It took place at church basements, clinics, and community recreation centers all over Denver. They loved it. I loved doing it too. The first week talks about what makes people diabetic, have cardiac blockages and hypertension and thyroid and also cancers that are preventable. You start with really interesting videos and slides. You use in Spanish and so on discussions of how the human body reacts. You do tests and you tell them, if you drink sugary drinks this happens to your body. You literally give them water only and test them. Then you give them a small amount of sugary drinks. They test again. Many were shocked by the results. It is an awareness campaign. You tell them you see your body can only process at most 500 mg of sodium a day. If you eat this bag of chips? And then eat this other processed meat you are three times over the excess and your kidney has to respond and it can't flush it out, it will then react this way.
It was very specific. At the end of the course you see big changes. I thought it would be less effective but it turned out to be very effective. The key is SOCIALIZING Q. They loved talking, eating, doing things together and you make it fun. I would stop for a little dance. I would put on this song by this artist:
I would dance around. I choreographed it all. And talked about how all that bad ingredient stuff would be like a bad guy getting ready to do harm. I would dance around to that. They would laugh so hard! But they remembered it all.
I told them the truth I used to work near those two streets in Old San Juan called Calle Luna (Moon Street) and Calle Sol (Sun Street). It used to be the streets that were the poorest in Old San Juan. Not anymore. Hee hee.
Today is my birthday Q. I feel GREAT!! Another new year!
La historia de mi amor
se pudiera encontrar
en cada corazón,
en cada soledad.
Silvio Rodriguez
se pudiera encontrar
en cada corazón,
en cada soledad.
Silvio Rodriguez