Re: [pronut-hiv] Nutrition conferences (4)

["cener" <cener@wananchi.com>]

Hey Don,
Sorry about your plight.
Well here in Kenya, I together with some nutritionist, are holding nutrition seminars for Nutritionist and other health professionals. These are two days seminars to handle different nutrition topics and teach them like we were teaching patients. I find them very practical. This is because I have run an obesity and diabetes education centre for a 6 years and I have learnt to be practical. it makes since to the patients and makes work easy.  I am proud to have studied at stellenbosch University and I learnt to be practical.
Scientific Conferences are really good but it your work as a dietician to
make it simple for your colleagues and your patients.
All the best though.

Regards
Alice Ojwang-Ndong.  "M Nutr (Stellenbosch)"
Nutrition  & Dietetic Consultant,
Center For Nutrition Education and Research
P.O.BOX 8105,00200, Nairobi.

"Healthy Choices, Longer Life"
cener@wananchi.com

----- Don Kayembe wrote:


Rachel you have a point. I used to complain about the same but those who are
still doing that have hidden agenda. They want to research pour the sake of
getting doctorate but practically what it is just like a balloon completely
no effect on consumers.
  Is is just sad in the area of nutrition. Nowadays we have more autodidacts
than professional Nutritionists. Anyway, the result on the ground is
eloquent, malnutrition ( by deficiency as well as by excess) still growing
due to lack of practicability of indigestible theories.
  We are yet to see.
  Regards
  Don Kayembe
  Nutritionist/ Dietitian

-------Rachel Stern <sternworks@verizon.net> wrote:
  Here's an excerpt from a message I received privately:

"most of these workshops attended by high powered people for International
NGOs, UN and academic institutions - in other words donors or those doing
research and publish - so recommendations made not practical and those
working in the field do not even get to know them.
2ndly - most manuals are like textbooks and at times impossible to even
translate any content into a native language."