It's time for Dishing Up Nutrition with licensed nutritionist Darlene Cavist.

Each week, Darlene explains a connection between what you eat and how you feel.

Stay tuned to hear practical, real-life solutions for healthier living through good nutrition.

Dishing up nutrition is brought to you by nutritional weight and wellness.

Slow down, you move too fast.

You got to make the moment last. Well, welcome to DChiant Nutrition.

I'm Darlene Kivist, a licensed nutritionist, and I'm also a certified nutrition specialist.

You know, people often ask me, how do you become a certified nutrition specialist?

Well, first, you must have a master's degree in the field of nutrition

plus a thousand supervised hours in the practice of nutrition and successfully pass a rigorous

nutritional exam, and then every five years take 75 continuing education credits. So last week, I spent four days in Morristown, New Jersey

at the American College of Nutrition 53rd annual conference.

53 years they've been doing this.

Listening to many doctors and nutrition experts

discussed some of the most recent research about

obesity and diabetes epidemic.

The conference began with a special showing of the film Super Size Me, followed by a lecture

by the doctor that treated Morgan Spurlock, the star of Super Size Me.

And I'm not sure everyone saw the movie Super Size Me, so I'm just going to fill them in.

Yes.

I didn't see it for like two years after it came out, but it was an awesome movie.

So Morgan Spurlock decided to find out what would happen to his health if he only ate McDonald's for a month.

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