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cialist in sports dietetics (CSSD) and strength and conditioning (CSCS). She
currently works with the SEAL community and has been tasked to initiate a
human performance program that includes full time nutrition support. She
has worked as the nutrition program manager for Navy-wide health promotion
and is a subject matter expert in sports nutrition for Navy Environmental
Health Center (NEHC). She has conducted training in nutrition and wellness
globally for Navy personnel, and has deployed on several aircraft carriers
and smaller ships to support the Navy fleet. An environmental nutrition appraisal
called Choosing Healthier Options for Wellness (CHOW) developed
in 2005 was used to assess healthy foods available on military bases for
service members, beneficiaries and contract workers. Her other initiatives
include the “Healthy Alternative” Navy vending program and the SEAL Recovery
Meal Program. Lori is an avid year-round athlete who has competed
in several triathlons throughout the United States, to include Ironman Lake
Placid, along with numerous marathons and outrigger canoeing. She credits
most of her success to support and advocacy by many military leaders for
making the military a better environment nutritionally. Commodore/CAPT
Pete VanHooser, a Navy SEAL, has been influential in supporting the nutrition
component of human performance for the SEAL community.
Ms. Stacey Zeno, MS, is a graduate of American University in Washington,
D.C. with a Masters of Science in Health Promotion Management.
She supervises the Human Performance Laboratory at Uniformed Services
University of the Health Sciences in the Department of Military and
Emergency Medicine. In addition, she is a certified personal trainer who
works with recreational and club sport athletes. Ms. Zeno frequently delivers
seminars on nutrition and works closely with female and male athletes
who have eating disorders. Sports have always been a passion and a key
component of her life. She has participated in track and field as well as
tennis, but is currently active with softball and weight lifting.
Christiane Minnick, BFA, MAc, spent over twelve years working as
a communications design professional in the fields of graphic design, advertising,
and marketing. In 2003, she enrolled at Tai Sophia Institute for
the Healing Arts and graduated in 2007 as a Master of Acupuncture. Now
a licensed acupuncturist, she is building her private practice in downtown
Silver Spring, Maryland. Christiane believes there is a connection between
graphic design and acupuncture: in both fields, a holistic approach—one
which emphasizes not just numerous disparate pieces of information,
but how that information adds up to create and transcend the whole —is
crucial when developing a plan for a design project or an acupuncture
treatment. Just as a visual solution must emerge from this information to
form an identity or a message, so must those in health professions note
the themes and core beliefs that run through each person’s own human
experience (presented as information on a physical, emotional, social, or
spiritual level) to identify what may be contributing to their disharmony.
Christiane has a long-standing interest in the myriad ways, which includes
nutrition, a person can influence their own health and wellness, and wishes
to thank Patricia Deuster for the opportunity to work on this project.