Oscar Mayer Wehner

    Retrieved from https://www.businessmodulehub.com/blog/nutritional-tips-for-seniors/#.XTfJiC2ZM1I      Mrs. Holloway's lecture about the importance of nutrition as we age was extremely enlightening.  We are constantly told how important it is to eat well, but eating well involves many aspects that we do not always consider.  Among all of the insightful knowledge she was sharing with us, there are a couple things that I learned a lot about.  One of them was how important lean body mass is for each of our bodies to contain.  In a perfect world, everyone would have 75% lean body mass and 25% fat body mass.  Unfortunately, this is not the case.  As we age, lean body mass is lost much quicker, which is a great loss for our bodies.  As the total percentage of our body's lean mass decreases, the more at risk we are for many problems.        The second big piece of information I took away from Mrs. Ho...

     When we first did the glyph drawings in Foundations last year, I remember having to really reflect on how I felt about my own view of leadership and the leadership traits that I did or did not have.  Now that we are in our second year of OT school and finishing up our didactic portion of this program, my view of leadership has remained somewhat similar but has changed some too.  My thoughts about the following things have remained the same:  I believe leadership is an inborn trait.  I think there is a fairly equal mixture of leaders and non-leaders in the field of OT.  I believe that a person can be a leader without seeing him/herself as one.  I believe self-awareness is vital to effective leadership.  I can think of at least one leader that has had a positive impact on me.  I think technology is an important part of effective leadership in many situations.  I believe creativity and o...