Sylvia's Scenario

On my last post about spending New Year's in San Francisco, I mentioned how I loved all the history everywhere you went.  Now, I am at the famous and historical Hotel Del Coronado in San Diego and I just might never leave this place.  Bruce has a convention here so I decided to tag along.  And talk about historical...much of this place is original that was built in 1888 and it is so gorgeous.  It even has a   ghost story   attached to this hotel  about a beautiful, young woman who checked into room 3327 in 1892 and never checked out... and so many famous people have been here including eleven U.S Presidents starting with Benjamin Harrison in 1891 and the person I mainly know this place for... Marilyn Monroe in the movie Some Like it Hot with Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, known as the greatest American comedy of all time.  I always loved that movie.  Charles Lindberg was also here after he accomplished his flight ...

I recently returned from attending our national conference for dietitians in San Diego on September 24-27 and was refreshed to get updated on all the latest research, as well as having a little fun in San Diego!!  This is a good event for all of us dietitians to go to because it keeps us abreast of current recommendations backed up by studies.  For example...have you see the blogs going around about "Unprocessed October" where they are trying to get people to eat "unprocessed" food for a month?  Well, I think its a fun idea, however, I went to a session called "Fresh Look at Processed Foods" and basically, the definition of "processed foods" is everything we eat unless it's pulled straight out of the garden!  Even bananas are considered a processed food!  The home grown tomatoes we can ourselves  are "processed foods".  So, as a dietitian, this conference is good at keeping us grounded with the scientific community so we don...