Student Nutrition Association

Fall, 2004

The Student Nutrition Association (SNA) is one of two nutrition-related clubs on campus. We were formerly known as the Nutrition and Dietetics Association, but that was so long ago that no student at UCD can actually remember when that was.

The Student Nutrition Association serves as a link to academic, social, and community resources for those interested in nutrition and health. Membership is open to any who wish to join. Members recieve information, support, food (at the meetings), a discount on t-shirts, free or discounted admission for club events, and something to put on resumes and applications. All this for only $9 a quarter, or $18 for the whole year! If you want to know more, have any questions, or just like to send emails, we can be reached at SNAUCD@hotmail.com

Officers for 2005-2006:

President - Annie Frassinello
Vice President - Nicole Geurin
Secretary - Mayuko Okai
Treasurer - Patsy De la torre
PR Officers - Halley Carlquist and Anna Jones

More recent information can be found on our officical website, now that it is finally up and running. This page will be updated more sporadically.

We went over a lot of stuff this meeting, which took place on the 25th. First of all, and most importantly, we elected a new secretary! Congratulations to Mayuko! We have a lot planned for the rest of the quarter and into the next, so here's a brief rundown of what was discussed:

Relay for Life
SNA Newsletter
Cooking demonstration at the Davis Farmers Market
Picnic Day
Dr. Shaffrath's guest lecture
Joint activity with the International Nutrition Club
The possibility of screening "Super Size Me"
SNA Bowling/Complain-About-School Night
Some kind of fundraiser

Items in bold font are things that we are still accepting sign-ups for. So if you left early and missed the sign-up sheets that were going around, just drop us an email at SNAUCD@hotmail.com to let us know what you're interested in.

Tentively, for Picnic Day, we have planned to calculate BMIs for people that stop by our booth, as well as some kind of fundraiser-type thing. For our cooking demonstration at the Davis Farmers Market, which will take place one Saturday a month, we were thinking vegetarian chili. Any other ideas for either of those (or anything else) are very much welcome.

If you missed out on our last meeting, the magazine fundrasier brought in $100 for our club. SNA adopted a family through STEAC for the holidays. The Secretary position for the club is open for Winter and Spring quarters, and Allison and Mayuko are two candidates so far, although anyone is welcome to run. Our new secratary will be voted in our first Winter quarter meeting, and each candidate must give a little spiel as to why they should be secretary. We also discussed plans for next quarter. We have two guest speakers lined up, Dr. Applegate and Dr. Shaffrath, we have a trip to the food museum, Copia, planned, as well as Relay for Life and Davis Farmer's Market demonstrations.

The second meeting has come and gone. Our guest speaker, Dr. McDonald, talked about Nutrition and Aging, and answered random nutrition questions. A riot almost started when he asserted that women can't build muscle at all. After that, pinata fun was had and then we all went home.

The first meeting of the quarter took place on October 13th, and if you missed it, well that's just your bad luck. Some of the things discussed at the meeting were:

Heartbeat Run's Activities Health Fair
SNA at the Activities Fair
The SNA Newsletter
Dr. Applegate as a guest speaker
Kaiser Permanente Internship opportunity
Trip to the Woodland Corn Maze
Trip to the Copia Food Museum
Adopt-a-Freshman/Transfer Student

Items in bold font are things that we are still accepting sign-ups for. So if you left early and missed the sign-up sheets that were going around, just drop us an email at SNAUCD@hotmail.com to let us know what you're interested in.

Also, we would really, really, really like it if you guys would email us with any ideas for what you'd like to do this year. Don't just wait for the officers to think of something because this club is for all the members. If there is something that you want to do, or think would be a great idea, just let us know. Please?

Second meeting of the new quarter: February 22 at 6pm in Wellman 212.

Field trips: Copia, the ultra-spiffy food museum! more info forthcoming.

Cooking demonstration at the Davis Farmers Market: February 25, 8 am to 1 pm. We'll be demonstrating how to make wraps entirely from foods at the Farmers Market!

Relay for Life

Picnic Day!

Future meetings: Wednesday Feb. 22 6pm in Wellman 212, and Wednesday March 8, 6pm, in Wellman 119.

Dr Shaffrath gave an awesome lecture for us on February 1st, mostly on exercise as it's related to nutrition. He'd be happy to speak for us again next quarter as well.

Dr. Applegate, spoke for us on Jan. 11, about sports nutrition and her career path.

Adopt a Family

Magazine Fundraiser: We raised $100! Yay us!

Woodland Corn Maze Trip: Saturday, October 22, 5pm. It ended up only being Annie, Anna, and their respective significant others that made their way through the maize maze. Regardless, fun was had by all.

Heartbeat Run Activies Health Fair: Saturday, October 15 from 9 am to 12 pm. We spent the morning providing information on the new Food Guide Pyramid, and calculating BMIs for those interested.

SNA at the Activities Faire: Wednesday, October 19 from 10 am to 2 pm. Thanks to everyone who stopped by our table on the Quad! We had caramel apples and t-shirts for sale, and I think we got a lot more people interested in our spiffy club.

This page is the quintessential example of what the Wiki and even the whole Web should be like. It is informative, kept always up-todate and accurate. It is a shining example of a print newsletter in online electronic form, with all the benefits of being electronic: always accurate, instantly available worldwide, instantly editable/amendable by anyone anywhere anytime, clear text, bright color photos, hypertext links, low cost. All credit (as far as I know) belongs to AnnaJones, who maintains this for use by her club and everyone interested. She gets IT. This is the best vision of the future, right here. —SteveDavison