Class 7 – Nutrition and Health – Fall 2020 – Sept 24th – Chapters 4 & 5 of McGuire Text – Type 2 Diabetes and Start Protein (Chapt 5)
Salad given out to class on Salad Fridays:
Class 6 – Nutrition and Health – Fall 2020 – Sept 22nd – Chapter 4 of McGuire Text – Continue Carbohydrates
Updates
- Remember, the second Lecture quiz is due on Canvas at 5 pm on Sept 23rd. Don’t worry about question 10 – just answer it! It is really a Poll question, but Canvas quizzes require an answer to be designated. I will adjust the points in the grade book.
2. If you are still having problems getting access to the Website for the quizzes for “Obesity Explosion,” please read the previous posts about this. Most likely the email with the Website code went to your spam folder.
3. I am posting the Diet Assignment on Canvass today. Please read through it several times. I will go over it next class or the class after that.
Letters from Students – September 17, 2020
Tue 9/15/2020 1:19 PM
Letter: Good Afternoon Dr.Dixon,
I am writing to you concerning a few different matters:
1.) I absolutely LOVED your Obesity Explosion book, so much so that I finished the entire book and respective chapter quizzes in one day! One thing that I did notice, however, is that there is no Chapter 8 or 9 quiz for the reading.
2.) Do you have any other publications that are available for purchase? I would love to read more of your work!!
3.) Finally, when discussing protein sources in your book, you noted that peanut butter and hummus sandwiches on wheat bread are a personal favorite. Is this actually true? That combo seems rather interesting, but if it is actually tasty, I would be willing to try it as a pre-workout snack. Please confirm.
Enjoy the rest of your day! Best,
Letter: Sep 15, 2020, 3:50 PM (2 days ago) to me Hi Prof. Dixon,
I’m in section 1 of your Nutrition and Health class this semester, and even though it’s only been a couple of weeks, I’ve already learned so much useful life information from you.
One of the first lectures when you were talking about how all supplements are bad. Then you started talking about vitamins (especially B12) and you talked about that woman who was experiencing toxic effects from it like hair loss. You also continued to talk about daily value percentages and how they’re listed on every product. All of this got me a bit concerned, because I’ve been using a weight gain protein powder from GNC that seemed to be healthy and working well for a few months now. I’ve been using protein powder supplements for around 2 years now, so I double checked the nutrition facts of the ones I’ve used, and the current one I’m using.
To my surprise, I saw SO many vitamins that were WAY above their daily recommended value (Vitamin B12 was at 600% daily value I believe), and I’ve been taking this nearly every day. I felt instant regret that I didn’t know this sooner.
Everyone knows me for my long and thick hair which gives me a unique hairstyle (the ladies especially 😂), and within the past year I’ve been noticing it’s starting to lose its magic. I feel my hair not as thick as it used to be, and doesn’t feel the same when I run my hand through it. This use of protein powder is the only thing that could’ve affected my hair this much.
Immediately after I checked the facts, I threw out my protein powder. I used to use protein powder right after I work out, but as of last week, I’m opting for homemade grilled chicken which still has the great protein properties I’m looking for, along with assorted nuts.
I’m already noticing a positive difference in my hair and less bloating, and I can’t thank you enough. Who knows how long I would’ve kept using that nasty stuff from GNC. Forever grateful for your insights and I’m looking forward to what else you have to say!
Answer: Permission was obtained to post this letter! Comments: It seems a little soon to know definitively whether the supplement was causing a problem. But as I said in class, this has happened quite a few times in past years!
Sep 15, 2020, 11:24 AM (2 days ago)
Question: Hello Professor,
I have been taking the obesity crisis quizzes on the platform and was wondering when the grades will reflect over on canvas. Thanks,
Answer: I’m glad you got access. How many quizzes did you take? Did you need to do a retry? Let me know your experiences? I would love feedback! Were the quizzes hard? The grade will appear in the Canvas grade book when you finish 15 quizzes! Joe Dixon
Follow-up: to me
Hello, My grades were all hundreds and completed all 17. I had to retake them a couple times, but overall was great experience and fair quiz questions. Thanks,
Me: Ok great! I believe there were only 14 quizzes though! My mistake!!
How did you like the book? Why did you do all of them at once? Joe Dixon
Question:
Attachments Sep 15, 2020, 5:27 PM (2 days ago) to me
Good Evening Professor,
I have a question about the obesity explosion book quizzes. I am taking them right now and I am unsure of how you will know if we did them or not. Are they connected to our email because I did not use my school email to sign up.
Also, it says in the syllabus that the quizzes are not graded but we can take them till we get 100%. Do we need to get 100% on them for full credit or can we miss a question or two and still get credit for the quiz?
Just to confirm that I am taking the correct quizzes, I have attached a screenshot. Can you let me know if that is the correct place/quiz?
Thank you so much for your help!
Best,
Answer:
Hi, Thank you for your email!!
Yes, you are in the right place!! The upper Ribbon matches the Cover!!!!! Did you put your name in when you registered? If so – it will be ok! In fact, I can see your name in the panel above the quizzes for Chapter 4! Can you tell from the website whether you got all the questions for a particular quiz correct? If you don’t get all the questions correct, retry the quiz. You can retry as many times as you need. I will see your scores for every quiz in the gradebook. If for example you miss 1 question here or there – I’m not going to take points off – that’s silly. When you complete 15 quizzes out of 17 total, you will get full credit for the Obesity Explosion quizzes. You won’t see your grade in Canvas until early November. So please don’t worry about a few “Obesity Explosion” quiz points here and there. Everyone will receive full credit if they complete 15 quizzes. It is very much a self-study part of the course. Of course, students can ask me questions about readings in the book.
Are there any other problems you are having? Thanks for the great question! Joe Dixon
Class 5 – Nutrition and Health – Fall 2020 – Sept 17th – Chapter 4 of McGuire Text – Start Carbohydrates
Update for 255 – 9-17-2020 I am sending this both by Sakai and Canvas (and putting on the blog) because I am having problems with Canvas emails. If you get this email by Sakai but not by Canvas, please let me know. Remember, I really don’t know what is going on at your end. All of this is new to me too! For example, I didn’t know that I did not publish the Module for yesterday’s lecture. Therefore, you couldn’t see the slides for yesterday’s lecture. I had put them on Canvas last week and will usually put Powerpoints on Canvas by the night before a lecture. So if don’t have access to slides by the night before, please email me! Thanks!
Dear All,
1. Go to the Blog Site for today’s Outline of Class 5
https://howtocureobesity.com/
3. Remember, the first quiz is due on Canvas at 5 pm today. It is a very easy quiz – only 6 questions! Don’t worry too much about it! I will use it to make sure the grade book is working.
3. If anyone is still having problems getting access to the Website for the quizzes for “Obesity Explosion,” send me an email. I will forward your emails to the Editor I work with. Remember, the “Obesity Explosion” quizzes don’t need to be completed until sometime in early November and you get unlimited tries on each quiz!
4. I am trying to keep up with emails but it is very difficult. If you are new student who just added the course, it is you responsibility to read through the syllabus, Schedule of Classes, and the grading rubric. Also, go to the blog and read through all the posts to see previous updates. If you haven’t heard back from me, send me another email.
Best, Joe Dixon
Monday Update for Nutrition and Health – Sept 14, 2020
Some Important Announcements:
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I now emailing to the Class through Canvas
2. If you cannot access Class Recordings through Canvas and Zoom, you must take care of this immediately. You need to call the Office of Information Technologies and they will help you! I will not answer any more emails asking how you can see the recordings on Canvass-Zoom!
3. The first Lecture Quiz will be published at 2 pm today and it needs to be completed by Thursday at 5 pm.
Here are very recent emails from students:
Question: Mr. Dixon, I know it is a little late to be asking this, but I am unsure where to find assignments for this course on canvas. I also haven’t seen any homework aside from reading the lectures assigned to me. Can you please clarify this for me if you have been giving us homework? Additionally, I am not sure if you have given us any quizzes yet since I couldn’t find them on the canvas website. Can you help me out here as well? Thanks,
Answer: Mon 9/14/2020 12:57 PM Hi, I will start the first Canvas quiz today. Did you get the email I just sent out from Canvas? I don’t see the email that I sent out, and this bothers me. All my other emails were sent out through Sakai, which we are not using this semester. We have not had any assignments or quizzes yet. There are still students adding the course! Have you had any other problems? Were you able to see the lectures? Thanks for your emails! I understand completely how you can get a little frantic about this kind of class. Sincerely, Joe Dixon
Question: Professor Dixon, I was just wondering where I could access the recorded lectures for Nutrition and Health. Thanks,
Answer: Do you have access to the canvas site for the course? You must be properly signed up through Rutgers Canvas Zoom. They require an official email account. Please call OIT if you can’t see the recorded lectures on the Canvas site. Just Google them for the telephone number. Joe Dixon
I will not answer anymore emails asking, “How do we see the recorded lectures?” I have addressed this question several times!
Class 3 – Nutrition and Health – Fall 2020 – Sept 10th – Chapter 2 of McGuire Text – On Zoom
In today’s class we will continue going through Chapter 2 of the McGuire Textbook. But before that, I want to go over what I consider the Foundations of Nutrition. Then after the Foundations, and Chapter 2 slides, I want to discuss an important topic that is not in the Textbook – the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994—commonly referred to as DSHEA.
Emails from Students:
Question: Hi Professor, When will the post-lecture quizzes start? I have another class during you class time so I have to watch the videos at a later time each week.
When will the quizzes be starting?
How long will they be open for submission? Thank you!
Answer: Don’t worry about them yet – I will announce them when they are ready. Have you been able to see the recorded lectures?
Question: Hello, I was just wondering if there will be a descriptive study guide/chapter outline of what we are going to cover in the classes? Thank You
Answer: Hi, Thank you for your email. I don’t have a descriptive study Guide/Chapter Outline for each class. I sometimes have an outline in the first few slides of the PowerPoint Lecture. I usually put an outline for each on the Blog Site. I update the Schedule of classes as we go along. At this point you have the Schedule of Classes, the Blog site, the PowerPoint lectures, and the readings in the Textbook. Adding one more thing would add another thing the students would have to check to follow along with the classes. Then about a week before each exam, I give out a review sheet for the exam and it has what we covered. Occasionally, I do not cover a topic and then it is not in the Review sheet. In what form would a study Guide/Chapter Outline be that would be helpful to you? I have been thinking about doing one, actually.
Sincerely, Joe Dixon
Question: Hi Professor Dixon, My name is _____________, I am currently in your Nutrition and Health class and I am confused as to what material we need for the class this semester. Reading through your emails I noticed that we do not necessarily need the Nutritional science book. But we do need the Obesity Explosion book as well as the access code. Once I purchased the Obesity Explosion ebook with the access code from Kendallhunt, I was able to access the ebook but when logging in using the access code for the homework it said the class was not set up yet? Also, is there any other books/material that we need for this class? Thank you,
Answer: Hi, Sorry to take so long to get back to you. I am laughing because somewhere you got the impression that you do not need the “Nutritional science book.” I do recommend you get the McGuire textbook for background material that I can’t get to in the class.
The site for the Obesity Explosion that you get access to with your code will be ready soon. I will make a major announcement when it becomes available. It was just finished last week and I just got access to it myself on the Friday before Labor Day. I am proof reading the questions now!
There are no other books you will need for this class. Thank you for your email!
Sincerely, Joe Dixon
Thursday Night Update for Nutrition and Health 255
Class 2 Today – Sept 3rd – We went through the Slides for Chapter 1 of McGuire. Then we started the Slides for Chapter 2. As I mentioned in class today, Chapter 1 is a little fluffy. Chapter 2, on the other hand, discusses nutrition assessment, which is an important concept.
During today’s lecture, there were questions about quizzes. The quizzes concerning the lectures will be through Canvas. I haven’t put the quiz component together yet.
The On-line site for the “Obesity Explosion” quizzes will be ready by early next week. I will send you the link when it is ready. I have had many emails about quizzes – please do not worry about them yet.
Concerning the recording of Class 2 – I can see it on Canvas, but I haven’t been able to access it yet. I will call the Office of Information Technology tomorrow and find out what is going wrong. But remember, there are many classes going on-line at this time and there are kinks in the system.
Extremely Important – As someone brought up today, next Tuesday, Sept 8th, is designated a Monday schedule, so there will not be a 255 class next Tuesday. The Schedule of Classes that I sent out is wrong concerning class next Tuesday.
I hope Everyone has a safe and restful Labor Day weekend!
Class 2 – Nutrition and Health – Fall 2020 – Sept 3rd – On Zoom
Notices:
1. I only received a few emails from Students about not being able to get on Zoom. Those that had trouble had not signed up for Rutgers Zoom.
2. I only received one email concerning not being able to access the recording. There is still uncertainty about whether you need a pass code to access the recording.
3. The “Obesity Explosion” print book is now available on the Kendall Hunt site. If you buy the printed book, be careful to choose a low price mailing option!
4. Today, I put the Student Reviews of the Spring semester’s class on the Canvas Site for the class.
5. Today we will start the slides for Chapter 1 of the McGuire textbook.
We may get into Chapter 2 – I’m not sure.
I hope everyone is healthy and safe!
Go to Zoom in Canvas for Lecture 1
All, I was able to get Zoom working in Canvas so I have scheduled today’s lecture in Zoom.
Here is the information, but think you can just go to the class site in Canvas and join the meeting without any need for codes etc.
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