HPHD Lecture Series:
HPHD Faculty Share their Expert Opinions on Topics of Health and Life
Let HPHD faculty provide advice on topics that are relevant
to you through a series of interviews conducted by Scott Krueger of WSPT radio.
Talking to Your Children About Sexuality
by Julie Keller, MS
Julie has been doing sexuality education and research for the last nine years. Julie has a Master’s degree from Montana State University. Her research and thesis focused on predicting adolescent sexual activity. She taught in public schools for 5 years and is now an instructor at in the School of Health Promotion & Human Development at UWSP, where she teaches family and consumer sciences and human development courses in addition to Human Sexuality. Julie is also the mother of one amazing nearly three-year-old daughter.
Contact Julie Keller at:
JKeller@uwsp.edu
25 Pounds of Baby Fat: A Dietitian’s Personal Perspective
by Deborah Tang, MS, RD, CD
Deborah teaches food and nutrition courses in the School of Health Promotion & Human Development at UW-Stevens Point. She is a dietitian and mother of a seven year old daughter. Her talk is about her journey back to a healthy weight after the birth of her daughter. Shortly after her weight loss experience, friends and family would ask about the “secrets” to her success. This informal talk will reveal Deborah’s weight loss approach and tips for lifelong weight maintenance.
Contact Deborah Tang at:
dtang@uwsp.edu
Your Marriage And Your Money: What’s Consumerism Got To Do With It?
by Sterling Wall, PhD
Sterling began his academic career with a Bachelors degree in Economics (and Agricultural Economics), followed by a Masters degree in Counseling, and a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies. It is no surprise then, that whether teaching classes on money, marriage, or child development, that first economic lens comes through and the culture of consumption that we live in is discussed as a major influence in many areas of family life. Whether it’s the transformation of parents into conduits to their children’s consumption, marriage in a culture of disposability, or looking to material goods to meet our non-material needs, a number of authors and ideas will be discussed about how to get off the treadmill of consumption, and create meaningful relationships with the people who matter most in our lives.
Contact Sterling Wall at:
swall@uwsp.edu
Saving Money and the Farm: How to Eat on a Budget and Support Local Ag
by Jasia Steinmetz, PhD, RD, CD
Jasia
Steinmetz teaches in the Health Promotion and Human Development Department
at UWSP.
Areas of interest and research include: Community nutrition,
geriatrics, sustainable food systems and international nutrition.
Contact Jasia Steinmetz at:
jsteinme@uwsp.edu
Fit Family Fun: Questions about food and fitness?
We’ve got answers for everyone in the family.
by
Tom Wetter, PhD and Annie Wetter, PhD
Annie is Associate Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics. Tom, an exercise physiologist, is Assistant Professor in Health Promotion. Both received their doctoral degrees from UW Madison from programs that studied the effect of exercise and diet on health and human performance.
As instructors at UWSP, Annie and Tom have developed research and community outreach programs that help ordinary citizens make sound decisions about food and physical activity. For example, Tom helped create a program that tracks physical fitness levels of Ben Franklin Junior High students. Students receive a fitness report card that they bring home so that the whole family can increase their awareness of the importance of fitness. Annie is president of Portage County CAN http://www.portagecountycan.org, a coalition of community organizations working to promote and support healthy eating and active living in Portage County.
In addition to lugging 50-lb bags of chicken feed, Tom runs marathons, which is a short distance compared to the Ironman triathlons and 50 mile running races he was keen on before. Annie tries to stay as active as possible as a mom, bicycle commuter, and farmer. Her latest ‘buns of steel’ workout: hauling dirt and rocks in a rusty wheel barrow.
Contact Annie Wetter at: awetter@uwsp.edu
Contact Tom Wetter at:
twetter@uwsp.edu
Resolving Conflict: How to get what YOU want and still have a happy
partner
by Jane Jones, PhD
Jane Jones is a Professor of Health Promotion and Human Development at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point where she teaches Behavior Change Facilitation, Health Psychology, Transforming Conflict, Health, and Healthy Relationships. She is a licensed psychologist, has a small private practice, and has written three books, People Skills in Health Promotion, Simply Perfect, Perfectly Simple, and with her partner John Bailiff, Loving Well.
Contact Jane Jones at:
jjones@uwsp.edu