Nutrition 425

April 10th- Today we talked about Health and Nutrition Policy that is set nationwide to give guidelines to people nutritional needs of the American people. It was interesting to see how these people got their information for this policy. It is gathered by assessment, monitoring, surveillance and screening.  We also learned about the policy cycle which starts with the problem and leads to formulating alternatives and then the policy is adopted and then made implementation on how to fix the problem and then it is evaluated to see if the policy is approved or it can also be terminated.  I found it very fascinating how a policy is evaluated to see if it accepted or not.


April 12th- Today we finished talking about Health and Nutrition Policy and watched a movie about a Farmers Market right by Hilton Head Island.  It was great to see how all the people came together to help out the community by helping the farmers and the people within the community.  The best part of class today was that we watched how a bill was passed through Congress. It was an animated little film that I remembered from grade school. At the end of class, we got into our assessment groups to figure out what needs to be done in the next week. We decided that we would be meeting Sunday night to fill out the notebook and discuss more about what we will be planting in the future!