Michal Weinberger, Dietician

Lectures at Yalduta

Michal Weinberger B.Sc – Clinical Dietician

Who am I?

· Experienced Clinical Dietician, working also at Kupat Cholim Clalit

· B.Sc Clinical Nutrition, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

· Specialization in sports nutritional counseling

· Experienced in the techniques of coaching and NLP

I personally believe that losing weight and maintaining weight should be a pleasant experience!

Lectures (tailored to the audience):

· An Introduction to proper nutrition

· The Israeli paradox - health-awareness and obesity

· An introduction to the "The Pyramid of Food"

· An introduction to BMI, and how it is calculated

· What are calories? Do you need to calculate your caloric intake?

· Learning good eating habits

· Nutrition and exercise

· Recommendations of what to eat before and after physical activity

· How to measure pulse and how to use it to benefit your training

· Recommended types of exercise to lose weight

· Burning calories and fat during different types of physical activity

· Deconstructing myths related to physical activity

· Correct nutrition during pregnancy

· How much weight should you gain during pregnancy?

· What should you eat and what should you not eat?

· Does what you eat affect the fetus and its development?

· Which food supplements are recommended during pregnancy?

· How to eat in specific situations – e.g. craving, reflux, anemia, nausea

· Physical activity during pregnancy - what kind and how much?

· Your husbands role

· Correct nutrition during breastfeeding

· How to lose weight while breastfeeding

· Dietary recommendations during breastfeeding, and how nutrition affects breastfeeding

· What to do when your baby has excess gas

· How to know when your baby has had enough milk

· How to return to work and continue breastfeeding

· Myths and facts about breastfeeding

· Nutrition in the first year of infanthood

· Nutrition in the first six months of infanthood.

· How to manage the transition to solid foods?

· What is permitted at each stage?

· What are 'food fingers'?

· How to know that your baby is satiated?

· Bonus: Fast and healthy recipes for you and your baby

· Recommended menus for all stages until the first year

· Nutrition from the second year of infanthood

· Moving beyond breastfeeding and formulas

· How much should your infant eat? Menu!

· Sharing of responsibility between parent and infant

· What to do when the infant refuses to eat

· How to manage the infant's transition to independent eating

· How to know what is important in your infant's nutrition and how to feed your baby without fighting

· Bonus: Fast and healthy recipes for you and your baby

· Proper nutrition for all the family

· How to instill good eating habits at home

· How to prepare for shopping in the supermarkets

· What to do when children don't like vegetables

· How to manage special events such as birthdays and holidays

· Should the child's eating be limited, and if so then how much?

· Snacks and junk food - should you limit them?

· How does the involvement of the family affect the success of the nutrition process?

· Lectures to follow:

· You can lose weight with Michal! An emphasis is placed on personal meetings to build a personal program for each client.

For further information, contact

Dr Tina Berkovits or the Yalduta center :

ילדותא, מרכז מסחרי השמורה

זכרון יעקב. בקומה ה-2. טלפון: 04-9542252