Sports Nutrition Expert Leslie Bonci to Speak at Falk College April 14

Nationally identified sports activities vitamin knowledgeable Leslie J. Bonci will current “Fuels of Engagement: Nutrition Trends That Should Stay and End” at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14, in Grant Auditorium on the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics.

Bonci is the featured speaker of the sixth annual Ann Selkowitz Litt Distinguished Speaker Series. The lecture is free and open to the general public, and light-weight refreshments shall be served at 5:30 p.m.

Bonci, M.P.H., R.D., C.S.S.D., L.D.N., is the proprietor of Active Eating Advice, a vitamin consulting firm, and co-founder of Performance 365, a sports activities vitamin consulting firm. Her purchasers embody the National Dairy Council, California Dried Plum Board, Bayer USA, Produce for Better Health Foundation, National Peanut Board, Gatorade, GoodSport, Ready Nutrition, General Mills and KLEAN Athlete.

She is presently the vitamin advisor for the 2020 Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs and the Fan Controlled Football (FCF) indoor league. She was beforehand the corporate nutritionist for Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and sports activities dietitian for Carnegie Mellon University athletics and the WNBA, NFL’s Pittsburgh Steelers, NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins, and Major League Baseball’s Pittsburgh Pirates, Toronto Blue Jays and 2019 World Series champion Washington Nationals.

To get a way of Bonci’s presentation April 14, go to the Active Eating Advice website to look at Bonci working with athletes to assist them be their greatest, mentoring kids to assist them domesticate and create an environment of meals appreciation, and speaking normal wellness methods round fueling for exercise.

Bonci obtained a bachelor of science diploma in biopsychology from Vassar College and a grasp of public well being diploma in dietary epidemiology from the University of Pittsburgh. The creator of a number of fashionable fitness and nutrition books, Bonci is an everyday blogger for U.S. News & World Report’s Eat + Run webpage and hosts weekly tv and radio segments for KDKA tv and radio in Pittsburgh.

A sought-after nationwide and worldwide speaker, Bonci is an advocate for packages that deal with meals and vitamin insecurity, and an advocate for agricultural biotechnology and sustainability. She is a agency believer in evidence-based follow over sensationalism and incorporates fairness, variety and relevance into her displays and follow.

Here are the main points for the April 14 lecture:

What: Sixth annual Ann Selkowitz Litt Distinguished Speaker Series.

When: 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 14 (gentle refreshments at 5:30 p.m.).

Where: Grant Auditorium within the Falk College complicated at Syracuse University (campus map).

Who: Sports vitamin knowledgeable Leslie J. Bonci will current “Fuels of Engagement: Nutrition Trends That Should Stay and End.”

Parking: Free parking is accessible within the Raynor Avenue Lot. (Directions to Raynor Avenue Lot).

For extra data and lodging requests, please contact Annette Hodgens at [email protected] or 315.443.9816.

About the Ann Selkowitz Litt Distinguished Speaker Series

Ann Selkowitz Litt ’75 (1953-2007) was a nationally identified nutritionist who helped kids and adolescents with consuming issues and assisted growing athletes in reaching their full potential. The vitamin advisor to CosmoGirl journal, Litt was the creator of The College Students’ Guide to Eating Well on Campus, Fuel for Young Athletes, and the American Dietetic Association Guide to Private Practice. She was the nutritionist for the NFL’s Washington Redskins and served as spokesperson for a number of media campaigns throughout her profession, together with the Got Milk marketing campaign. After her loss of life, the Ann S. Litt Foundation, Inc., was created to help vitamin schooling. Through a beneficiant present from this basis to Falk College, the Ann Selkowitz Litt Distinguished Speaker Series was created at Syracuse University in 2015.