We went to the First Hawaiian Bank Prime Time free breakfast/seminar today. It's for bank customers who are 60+ years old and is held at the Hawaiian Village hotel in Waikiki.
We got stuck in traffic and just barely got there in time.
We rushed into the Coral ballroom and sat down.
Art was passing the fruit plate when the heavy platter tilted and hit the orange juice goblet. I got orange juice all over my lap.
Yuuuck!
The breakfast was VERY substantial and I couldn't finish it.
Someone told us there were about 800 people in attendance.
The seminar taught us about estate planning, long term health care insurance, and the state of our economy. It also featured guest speaker, Dr. Terry Shintani who spoke eloquently about the very urgent need for Americans to focus on the terrible epidemic that is threatening our country right now. Obesity. Michelle Obama's focusing on childhood obesity is critical right now.
Dr. Shintani informed us on the need for us to change our diet and lifestyle. We need to eat more vegetables, whole grains and fruit. It's what we all know, but he showed how many diseases are caused by obesity. He also explained how being obese, but having safe sounding blood test numbers is not the whole picture. It was all interesting, but as I looked around the room, most people were really pretty slim so I'm thinking he may have been preaching to the choir.
He mentioned that Hawaii's favorite meat, Spam was 17% protein and 83% fat. Sheesh!
I was still feeling pretty sticky from the orange juice and Art was damp too when they started a Bingo game.
I won twice and then Art won. We got these fun prizes.
Then there were the door prizes and the final gift which was the table centerpiece filled with fun little things like a thermos and freezer bags, etc.
We were told that the youngest person at the table would get to bring it home. There were two ladies who were probably younger than me, but they left before the end of the party so it came to me.
Oh happy day!
The whole thing started with a bit of traffic stress and a bad luck spill, but it sure ended happily.
Woo hoo!
We got stuck in traffic and just barely got there in time.
We rushed into the Coral ballroom and sat down.
Art was passing the fruit plate when the heavy platter tilted and hit the orange juice goblet. I got orange juice all over my lap.
Yuuuck!
The breakfast was VERY substantial and I couldn't finish it.
Someone told us there were about 800 people in attendance.
The seminar taught us about estate planning, long term health care insurance, and the state of our economy. It also featured guest speaker, Dr. Terry Shintani who spoke eloquently about the very urgent need for Americans to focus on the terrible epidemic that is threatening our country right now. Obesity. Michelle Obama's focusing on childhood obesity is critical right now.
Dr. Shintani informed us on the need for us to change our diet and lifestyle. We need to eat more vegetables, whole grains and fruit. It's what we all know, but he showed how many diseases are caused by obesity. He also explained how being obese, but having safe sounding blood test numbers is not the whole picture. It was all interesting, but as I looked around the room, most people were really pretty slim so I'm thinking he may have been preaching to the choir.
He mentioned that Hawaii's favorite meat, Spam was 17% protein and 83% fat. Sheesh!
I was still feeling pretty sticky from the orange juice and Art was damp too when they started a Bingo game.
I won twice and then Art won. We got these fun prizes.
We were told that the youngest person at the table would get to bring it home. There were two ladies who were probably younger than me, but they left before the end of the party so it came to me.
Oh happy day!
The whole thing started with a bit of traffic stress and a bad luck spill, but it sure ended happily.
Woo hoo!
It sounds like it was a lot of fun, orange juice notwithstanding. For a lecture about obesity, that breakfast looked like just the kind you don't need to be eating! Yikes, that certainly WAS a lot of food. Congratulations on your wins, Kay.
ReplyDeleteI can tell from the breakfast plate that you are not in Japan anymore. :)
ReplyDeleteYou deserve all those prizes for being a good sport after the OJ spilling.
Kay is always a winner! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteOooh that's an ironic breakfast for the topic of the speech!
ReplyDeleteYou two should play the lottery with luck like that! Okay -- I'm pretty sure the information on healthy eating meant to put the orange juice INSIDE the body, not on the outside. He's right, and I need a live-in chef to fix more veggies. I knew SPAM was bad, but that's pretty bad. Be sure and dry out from your big dose of Vitamin C! DrumMajor
ReplyDeleteWe are lucky to have our own live-in chef. She does cook a lot of vegetables and seaweed. :-)
DeleteI think its funny they served you so much fatty food and then gave a talk on obesity. Duh. Congratulations on the prizes. Dianne
ReplyDeleteTraffic stress and a bad luck spills could have put a real damper on things, but I'm glad the day ended happily. Cool prizes, makes you feel good when you win something doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteI hope the rest of this weekend goes well, have a wonderful Mother's Day!
Like DJan said, that breakfast was NOT an example of the kind of food that was being promoted! It sounds like you were WEARING the healthiest item on the menu. But how fun to be a winner. You are on a winning streak, my friend!
ReplyDeleteToo funny! Yes I was certainly wearing a LOT of it! The healthy pulp was all over my black shift.
DeleteYup, would have been nice if they served healthy foods. But I guess that would have been more expensive to prepare and would have left many seniors disappointed and possibly not satiated. After all it was bank sponsored. Their primary interest is to have happy satisfied customers...who live a long time so that's why Dr. Shintani was added to the roster lol That was a statistical over the top streak of wins I must say. Winning is fun I agree.
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Unfortunately, you're right about the breakfast. However, there was a fruit platter at the beginning also. If we stuck to that and had oatmeal, it would have been better, but not quite as festive.
DeletePersonally, I don't believe a healthy diet will work without exercise (reasonable level and schedule).
ReplyDeleteDr. Shintani did mention exercise. He actually has a 10 day plan to lose weight and get healthy with diet AND exercise.
DeleteCongrats Kay, well deserved. Seems a very interesting talk and that breakfast looks good to me. Funny though I have never been able to drink orange juice since I was pregnant with my daughter all those years ago. It made me sick then and I have never gone near it since. Bet you were glad to get home to change. Enjoy your prizes, winners are grinner.!!
ReplyDeleteWhile you two don't need these lectures because it appears you are healthy eaters and exercisers, I'm glad you went. We always learn new things at events like these. The breakfast doesn't look like anything I could eat either.
ReplyDeleteway to go, slim and healthy!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that Spam was still made. I'll have to check the supermarket shelves next time I'm there. Spam was a wartime staple and I remember it well from my childhood as rationing didn't finish until 1953 and I was born in 1948. I also remember having spam fritters at school - and I dread to think now what that did to my arteries and cholesterol! But I haven't touched it since then and I'm not likely to again I'm afraid, dreadful stuff.
ReplyDeleteGlad you had a good time. I think the traffic situation would wear me down and the sheer numbers of people in a small space, which is how Honolulu is these days.
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