08/12/2026
4th year speaking at the NC State Highway Patrol Commander Training Academy. It is always a fun great group of leaders from around the the state
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1. Importance of your daily diet-it’s either helping you or hurting you when it comes to your health. Reviewed the eight of the 10 leading causes of death, tap diet, implications.
2. Investigate your diet. They all had a chance to rate their plate and see where they have holes in their diet. Do they have protein at every meal fiber every meal are they eating a lot of colorful fruit and veggies are they avoiding ultra processed foods, etc.
3. Influence of diet on their own aging process. We talked about how everything starts to deteriorate as you get older if you’re not doing anything about it from bones to muscle to collagen production, eyesight, mitochondria energy, and all the things you can do to turn that around.
4. Implementing strategies to maintain a healthy diet. Everything from planar meals meal prep how to choose healthy foods on the run exactly how to fill your plate snack ideas.
5. Bonus session was on food quality. How to look at ingredients in food what toook for and what to ignore.
6. Also had them analyze a typical meal at chipotle or chick fila. We broke down the carbs protein and fat. So a chipotle bowl of honey chicken, rice, black beans, salsa, corn, salsa, lettuce, cheese, guacamole, came out to the equivalent of eating six pieces of bread with 6 ounces of chicken and 9 teaspoons of butter 🤓