: About Me

What a month this has been!  Knee surgery and the Certified Diabetes Educator exam.  I passed the exam and can now add CDE after my name, more in the alphabet soup.  Now I can concentrate on recovering from my surgery. 

I have been a clinical dietitian for over twenty years and for nine years previously I worked in food service.  As a clinical dietitian, I work with a primarily immigrant population who are also on the lower end of the socioeconomic status.  In my years working with this population, I have encountered just about every nutrition deficiency, including ricketts and pernicious anemia, and most nutrition related diseases and conditions mentioned in the text books, something many physicians and nurses never encounter.  Currently the bulk of my practice is endocrinology, mostly weight management and diabetes. 

As a dietitian, one would think that I am passionate about food, and I do like food, but it is not a passion.  I have been told in the past that I am the only dietitian that my friends and family know that did not pass her GCE O'Levels in Cookery.  That jello did me in!  It just would not set! I can't make jello but I can make a hard cooked egg.

I was born and raised in Jamaica and visit occassionally, not as often as I would like, there are so many other places to visit.  This last year, saw me in the UK, France and Ireland.  Traveling is something I have always wanted to do but finances and other obligations have often kept me at home (my favorite subject in school was Geography.  Surprise, surprise not Cookery).  I have lived in the New York City area on and off for the last thirty-eight years and I have to say that there is no where quite like it. 

My passion is reading, I will read almost anything I can get my hands on.  One summer, as a teenager, I read "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" and made a serious dent in the Encyclopedia Britanica.  As an adjunct to my reading, I developed my writing skills and found that I am quite good at it.  I do lack the discipline to do more than write short articles.  I like traveling and the New York Mets, best at home record in MLB this year, but they need to start winning on the road.

My passion is ...

reading and writing and travel and baseball and ...life.

I know too much about ...

everything and not enough about anything.

My parents always told me ...

"God don't like ugly."

My childhood ambition ...

teaching then architecture

My favorite memory ...

getting on a plane for the first time at nine years old.

Why I write ...

this is a lifelong passion. I have written short stories since the fourth grade.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The Closer, Burn Notice, Leverage, White Collar, Warehouse 13, Dr. Who. Just finished the Millenium trilogy by Stieg Larsson. Listening to oldies R&B, oldies Ska, rocksteady and reggae.

My first job ...

cashier

My best moment ...

passing the RD exam. I was walking on air.

My inspiration ...

my mother, as a single parent, she put four children through college.

Health & Fitness > Diet Tips How to figure your body mass index

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What is the body mass index? It is an individuals weight divided by their height squared. To calculate your BMI, you need a few common items, a bathroom scale, a tape measure, pencil, paper and a calculator. Take your height and weight and after writing them down, using your calculator, use this simple formula to determine your BMI. The formula is as follows: BMI = Body weight in pounds ÷ (Height in inches)(height in inches) x 703 The BMI can be calculated in metric also but because I am writing from the US, I will use Imperial measures. Once you have calculated your BMI, what does ...

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