Why should Eat Smart?

Eat Smart workshop held at Costanoan room March 10 from 10am to 11am. The workshop was organized by Department of Nutrition, Food Science, and Packaging. The workshop main goal is to inform and teach students about the new easy food labeling initiative’s on campus and help students to make smart food choices.
There were 17 people participating in the workshop. Most of them are nutrition major students. The majority of participate were women and only five men. There were two professors among participants. The program was very interesting. To me it was a unique experience. The discussion was support by statistical data and many graphs. Most of the studies were done at San Jose State University.
During the workshop, it was asked “Why should Eat Smart?” and “Why you should we care?” the answers were as follows: help maintain energy, reduce risk of diseases and lower cholesterol. According to speaker, Eat smart project is the part of health campus 2010 program.
Likewise, San Jose State University, the Oklahoma State University has such a kind of program. The University Nutrition Department is encouraging students to make smart and easy food choices by organizations such a kind of programs. At the end of Eat Smart workshop the speakers showed easy labeling. All participants were labeling the food on display.
In summary, the Eat Smart workshop was very interesting. However, I was disappointed at the lack of participants.