Presenters Diane and Doug Clement passed through midlife decades ago. They found that aging is very real and found it necessary to adapt their lifestyle to fit the changes in their bodies. They would like to share their experiences with you and motivate you with a reality check and then with a plan for manageable exercise and healthy eating.

When: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Location: UBC, Friedman Building, room 153

Registration
To register for this seminar, contact HSE Coordinator (Health Promotion Programs), Suhail Marino at marino@hse.ubc.ca.

Your email should include the name of your department, your title and your employee group. Registration emails without the name of your department, your title or your employee group will result in delays.

Cost: Free
To help you improve your health, Doug describes fitness plans that will gradually and effectively help you meet your good health goal.

Diane guides you through menu planning and helps you keep to a healthy eating plan even while entertaining guests on the weekend. Diane expertly provides healthy recipes that will tempt your palate and tease your taste buds while offering healthy food choices that taste and look great.

Together they hope that developing a passion for food, fitness and fun will be the first step, and you will catch the spirit. It could change your life.

Speakers

Diane Clement is the author of the bestselling Chef on the Run cookbook series, and the former co-owner/chef of Tomato Fresh Food Café. She was a sprinter on the 1956 Canadian Olympic Team and won a bronze medal at the 1958 Commonwealth Games. She sat on the Board of Directors of the Bid Committee for 2010 Olympic Games. Member of the International Les Dames d’Escoffier, Diane lectures on lifestyles: “Food, Fitness and Fun”, and she has hosted Global TV’s ” Saturday’s Chefs”.

Dr. Doug Clement is an internationally recognized sports medicine clinician and researcher who has been active as an Olympic and Commonwealth athlete and coach. He is a Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Medicine at UBC and former team physician for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League. He has been honoured with a number of academic and professional awards including the Order of Canada.

Newsweek has a story about new research regarding the relationship betwen how genes express themselves, and what you eat.

By all rights, chimps and humans should be a lot more similar than we are, considering that our DNA sequences are just under 99 percent identical….

Curiously, scientists now report, which genes are expressed depends, at least in part, on what you eat.

Researchers… fed laboratory mice different human and chimp diets for two weeks. The mice ate raw fruits and vegetables like chimpanzees in zoos get, or a human diet of food from the Institute cafeteria, or a pure fast food menu from the local McDonald’s.
Result: the different diets led to remarkable changes in which of the mouse genes were turned on, the scientists report this evening in the journal PLoS ONE. There were thousands of differences in the levels at which genes were expressed in the mouse livers but, interestingly, not in the mouse brains.

Many of the genes that changed in the mouse livers are known to differ between humans and chimpanzees, suggesting that these differences might be caused by the difference in human and chimpanzee diets. full story here

photo licensed from Crestock 

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