Tuesday we got to meet Melissa Alfano, an OU alum! She is the the director of Athens and Perry county WIC. As we learned through the agency assignment, WIC is a supplemental feeding program for pregnant, breastfeeding, and postpartum women and their infants and children and is a federally funded program. The main goal of WIC is to give kids a healthy start. This goal is fulfilled by offering programs such as breastfeeding education, nutrition education, and food vouchers. We learned that as a director of WIC, it is mostly about following the motions and filing the correct paperwork, but it is important to have a clinical background to have skills to help the people they work with.
During the cancer webinar we listened to Cheryl Rock PhD, RD talk about how cancer can be linked to diet and exercise habits. She mainly went over studies that have been conducted which link nutrition to cancer. Also, phytochemicals were seen to reduce the risk of cancer and slow the development of cancer. I don't know how crazy I was about the webinar format, I prefer face-to-face interaction..it's more engaging.
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