By SAND Member Grace Hawkins
Hello Internet, my name is Grace and I am junior Psychology and Nutrition, Dietetics double major and a new member of SAND! I hope to use both majors someday after becoming an RD to help people with weight-related disorders. I would love to counsel people at a diabetes clinic or work with patients at an eating disorder treatment center.
This past summer, I had the opportunity to be an intern at Vanderbilt University within their Campus Dining Department. I used this internship for school credit and I worked with my neighbor who was the director of the campus dining at the time. With his help, I was able to meet with and shadow many different people over the course of the summer. For a few weeks, I met with Liz Smith, RD, LDN, CDE who is a Clinical Dietitian & Certified Diabetes Educator at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She explained that part of her job was to counsel patients who came into the Diabetes Clinic at the hospital about the importance of watching their diet in order to keep track of their diabetes. Many of the patients there have little experience cooking, especially cooking meals that will help them manage their blood glucose levels.
To help the patients, I created a cookbook with almost 90 different recipes. The recipes were pulled from the American Diabetes Association’s website and all of the nutrition facts were included. The book was color-coded by the different sections: salads and salad dressings, non-starchy vegetable sides, grains and starchy vegetable sides, fish entrees, chicken entrees, and desserts. Not only was I able to create an easy to read cookbook with recipes that anyone could make, but I also learned more about diabetic diets and the importance of keeping track of the consumption of carbohydrates for those who are diabetic.
The photo included shows what two of the pages of the cookbook look like. Even if you don’t need to manage your blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol and you just want to find some healthy recipes that are simple to make and tasty, check out all the recipes at http://www.diabetes.org/mfa-recipes/recipes/!
Hello Internet, my name is Grace and I am junior Psychology and Nutrition, Dietetics double major and a new member of SAND! I hope to use both majors someday after becoming an RD to help people with weight-related disorders. I would love to counsel people at a diabetes clinic or work with patients at an eating disorder treatment center.
This past summer, I had the opportunity to be an intern at Vanderbilt University within their Campus Dining Department. I used this internship for school credit and I worked with my neighbor who was the director of the campus dining at the time. With his help, I was able to meet with and shadow many different people over the course of the summer. For a few weeks, I met with Liz Smith, RD, LDN, CDE who is a Clinical Dietitian & Certified Diabetes Educator at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. She explained that part of her job was to counsel patients who came into the Diabetes Clinic at the hospital about the importance of watching their diet in order to keep track of their diabetes. Many of the patients there have little experience cooking, especially cooking meals that will help them manage their blood glucose levels.
To help the patients, I created a cookbook with almost 90 different recipes. The recipes were pulled from the American Diabetes Association’s website and all of the nutrition facts were included. The book was color-coded by the different sections: salads and salad dressings, non-starchy vegetable sides, grains and starchy vegetable sides, fish entrees, chicken entrees, and desserts. Not only was I able to create an easy to read cookbook with recipes that anyone could make, but I also learned more about diabetic diets and the importance of keeping track of the consumption of carbohydrates for those who are diabetic.
The photo included shows what two of the pages of the cookbook look like. Even if you don’t need to manage your blood glucose, blood pressure, and cholesterol and you just want to find some healthy recipes that are simple to make and tasty, check out all the recipes at http://www.diabetes.org/mfa-recipes/recipes/!