Arcadia FYI

Hydration, Grilling, and Hidden Summer Nutrition Wisdom

• Christine Zito • Season 1 • Episode 3

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On this Episode of Arcadia FYI, USC Arcadia Hospital dietitian, professor, and author, Victoria Buxton-Pacheco shares some great insights on summer nutrition, hydration needs, and healthy eating strategies during hot summer month. She also challenges outdated health recommendations including the "8 glasses of water" rule and offers practical advice for staying nourished when it is hot and you don’t feel like eating. 

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Christine Zito:

Hello and welcome to Arcadia FYI. My name is Christine Zito. I am the host of this wonderful podcast and thank you for making it happen. This show focuses on community here in the city of Arcadia.

Christine Zito:

It features some really great interview, which we're going to hear, a great interview today, and I hope it informs, enlightens and entertains and, yes, it's coming up addressing some of the concerns here that we residents, because I live here in the city of Arcadia, I'm a resident of the city of Arcadia and I have my opinions on the local issues here and I want to talk about that the housing. I want to hear about the homeless issues here and I want to talk about that the housing. I want to hear about the homeless. What do you guys think about the ADU units that they approved to put in on properties? What do you think about that? See, I have my opinion on that too. We'll get to those interviews. Those are coming up here really soon and if you go to Facebook, I'll keep you up to date on all of that when that comes up. Just go to Facebook, search for Arcadia FYI and join the group or join the page and I will keep you informed when those come up. Furthermore, I will provide information about activities outside our community, because we're all part of the San Gabriel Valley and we're all community, and I would like to say thank you to those who already contacted me about some ideas that they want to hear. Thank you so much. I'm going to get in contact with you and I'm going to see if we can make these interviews happen. And if you have anything that you would like to hear, just go to ArcadiaFYIcom and it's right there on the homepage or the contact page. Fill out the form and tell me what you want to hear. I will get in touch with you and I'll see if we can get that interview or information or whatever it is that you want to hear on the air here at Arcadia FYI. All right, I want to thank our sponsors, like Longo Toyota in El Monte you can see right off the 10 freeway there Star 7 Financial with Francine Chu here in Arcadia, the Santa Anita Park and the Limeridian Pasadena Arcadia Hotel. All right, for your information, it is summer.

Christine Zito:

Just want to let you know I didn't know if you did know or not and today we're going to talk with someone very special. I love her. She is a great person. Okay, let me tell you just a little bit about her. She's smiling over here. If you're watching on the video, you can see her. She's an outpatient dietitian diabetes instructor, a surgical weight loss coordinator at USC Arcadia Hospital. She also teaches at Pasadena College in Cal State, los Angeles. She is the author of Nutrition Intuition. I just love that title. Okay, it's a practical approach to health and well-being. And you can order that book. It's a textbook and you can find it on amazon. So please, let's just give a nice warm welcome to everybody. I can hear all the applause here in the city of arcadia for victoria buxon, pacheco, thank you, christine?

Christine Zito:

yes, yeah, that was it. I was practicing on your name all day, all day okay, I gotta ask you some, some fun questions, sure we can get to know who you are a little bit here, okay, so so where were you born and raised?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

I was born and raised here in California. I'm a native and I pretty much never left Well where I was born, in Sun Valley.

Brian Greene:

Oh, okay, yeah, I was born in Sun Valley, but primarily.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

once I was born, my parents moved to Pasadena area, so I kind of grew up right around Pasadena area.

Christine Zito:

So you married Single, want to be married, want to be single.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

I just celebrated my 28th wedding anniversary. Congratulations.

Christine Zito:

Victoria, I think that is so cool. Yeah, thank you so much. All right, so okay. So you're a food person, how do you?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

throw a party. How do I throw a party? How do I throw a party um wine? Okay, I'm there. Uh, yeah, um wine, um, oh gosh, probably charcuterie, some mediterranean type of foods going on. Um, yeah, that's, that's the way I would do it. I like the whole wine and food pairing. I'm learning more about that as I kind of get more experienced with drinking wine. I don't think I really need more experience per se, but you know, I think as I look at more food and wine pairings, that's how I would throw a party.

Christine Zito:

Yeah, okay. Well, now you have two last names here yes, buckskin, and okay, buxton. Yeah, pacheco, uh huh, okay, pacheco is Mexican yes, okay, what is?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

what is Buxton?

Christine Zito:

Buxton is an English, it's an English name yeah, okay, do you kind of cook to those?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

ethnicities. No, no, you know what I? I tend to broaden my horizons when it comes to cooking. I really do enjoy cooking. I kind of. I've been in for a while I've been into doing some French cooking on the easier side. I'm not too.

Christine Zito:

French cooking. French cooking.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Yeah, so I really like French cooking. I like the dishes, but I also like the simplicity of some of the French dishes that I like to do at home, wow that's interesting. So I'm kind of a foodie when it comes to that, but I do enjoy cooking at home, see, that's why she's a nutritionist.

Christine Zito:

That's right. So what has been your greatest kitchen mistake? Oh my gosh.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Let's see. Well, I can name one. Um, I was, I was boiling eggs, of all things, and then also I'm hearing this like boom, boom, yeah, I'm hearing this popping sound and I go into the kitchen and my eggs are on the ceiling and evidently I forgot. Yet don't ever boil eggs and the water boils off. It's a big mess, it's a big. Don't do it. So that's probably my, my, most okay wait, wait.

Christine Zito:

You're boiling eggs and you found them on the ceiling of your kitchen.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Well, yeah, because they explode when the water comes out of the pan, they start exploding all over the place. So they were exploding. There was like some on the ceiling, some on the the walls. So never, never again, never do that. I'll never do that.

Christine Zito:

Okay, all right, with it being summer. First thing I want to ask you is how did you become a dietitian?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Yeah, so I went to Cal State, los Angeles, right out of high school. I was pretty new to college and so I took a nutrition class. I kind of really didn't know what I was doing in terms of what I wanted to be when I grow up and things like that, so I kind of took a bunch of random things at Cal State. I didn't really have any direction per se and I kind of fell into a nutrition class and I was so captivated by the topic of nutrition and how nutrition impacts our health and wellness, and on every level you know, on every level.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

It's really such a big. You know, if you take care of yourself and you really focus on that health and wellness, you know you can do so much with your, you know, your well being in the future, and so it's really just. That's how I got into nutrition, and the class was taught by a dietician who became an amazing mentor of mine.

Christine Zito:

Now, but your title that I saw is you deal with diabetes. Is that kind of like a specialty?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Yeah, it is so when I started. I've been at USC Arcadia, now, formerly Methodist. Yeah, I've been there now for about 20 years. So I started working in diabetes very early into my career there at the hospital and so much of what I learned. I worked with a nurse who was very knowledgeable and then it just sort of developed into my own over time and so I still teach the diabetes classes there.

Christine Zito:

20 years, 20 years.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Yeah.

Christine Zito:

Wow, okay, so Brian Green just walked in. He's the marketing, and that's why you hear the extra noise there. So now, what is a surgical weight loss coordinator?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Yeah, so one of the programs that we have at USC Arcadia is a surgical weight loss program. So what we do is people that you know have potentially tried to lose weight on their own and they haven't been able to, they will seek a surgical intervention to lose weight. And so then what they do is they're going to come to us at the hospital and then we work with several surgeons in the Arcadia area and then basically my job as a dietician is to help them prepare for the before and the after of what comes with having surgical weight loss.

Christine Zito:

How long is that journey for someone, typically with having surgical weight loss?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

How long is that journey for someone? Yeah, for a lot of times it's about six months that the patient will have to go through a series of types of like they have to take nutrition classes, they have to do psyche valves, they have to meet with their surgeon. So it takes about six months to prepare them. And you know in within that six months they're trying to learn or they should learn. You know in within that six months they're trying to learn or they should learn.

Christine Zito:

You know lifestyle changes and how they are they changing their food, their diet? Yeah well, they should, like it does on.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

TV Exactly. Yeah, well, not it. Yeah, I love those people that come to me and they're like I want to lose weight, like somebody on the biggest loser, I'm like yeah, no it's not gonna happen like that but my thousand pound yeah exactly, yeah, exactly. So it's that. So surgical weight loss is an intervention to help mitigate obesity, so yeah it's a it's a it's a good program you do the surgeries yeah yeah, right, yeah, they wouldn't give me any of those, those instruments to work with. I've seen them. I get to watch the surgeries.

Christine Zito:

That's oh yeah, I can my mom worked at USC, or she retired from USC 16 years, I think it is and she used to come home with these stories from the emergency rooms, like oh my goodness, I bet, yeah, yeah that's how I said, mom, I'm gonna be an actress when I grow up.

Christine Zito:

With the summer here now, um, you know, I think we forget. There's a lot of things that we forget to do when it's hot. What would be like the number one thing that you want someone to know when you know now we're in the midst of summer, we're here in July and, um, what would be like the one thing that you would want them to be aware of?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Yeah, so I think it's. It's all, obviously. I think it's an easy answer. Hydration is going to be key. I also think it matters in terms of what you're drinking. I think if you're drinking iced coffee all day, I mean, you're not going to get that, you know, same thirst satiation as you would with just drinking water. Some people really don't like to drink just plain water, but I think there's several things you can do to stay hydrated.

Christine Zito:

What are some of the drinks, though, like OK. So here's the number one how many? This is a 17 ounce. It says 16.9. But it's OK, 17 ounce. How many of these seven ounce bottles should I be drinking a day?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

So you know that's interesting because there isn't. There used to be that drink those 8 cups or 8 ounces, you know, but I really don't think that that recommendation is. It's I would call it outdated. So the amount of water that you drink, did you hear that it's outdated?

Christine Zito:

It's a little outdated. So the amount of water that you drink, it's outdated. It's a little outdated.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

So the amount of fluids that you drink on a daily basis would really depend on how much are you spending outdoors versus indoors. What kind of activity are you doing? What's the temperature outside? I don't think we've really gotten into the high 90s just yet here locally, but at the same time, you know you want to stay hydrated. So I think it's really going to depend on the individual. It's also going to depend on your activity level and it's going to depend on what you're doing that day. How much time are you spending outdoors, how much time are you going to spend indoors and are you doing some sort of physical activity that would you would need more hydration okay, so let me ask you this then so I, if I spend most of my time indoors, how much water should I be drinking?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

you know it may go back to that. Just drink, you know, obviously drink enough water to stay hydrated. One thing that's so interesting about hydration and maybe we don't think about it enough is that we have it's what it's called a lag time for thirst. So our thirst has a lag time. Now, for some people, they may ignore that thirst beyond the point of that lag time and then we kind of get in trouble with those heat strokes and people getting dehydrated. So if you're just spending time indoors, I mean you could kind of go back to the old eight ounce cups of water a day. I really again think it's just something that you wanna listen to your thirst. The whole thirst mechanism comes from the hypothalamus.

Christine Zito:

See, that's interesting. Okay, so you know me. I like to ride my bike, I go jogging, I'm getting ready for a half marathon. I would love to do another triathlon. That used to be my thing, triathlons so I'm always outdoors. So how much water should I drink?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

So it depends on how much of those activities that you're doing in a day, you're going to need a lot more water than somebody that's going to be sitting in an office, right, so you really have to listen to your body as well, and sometimes, with that type of physical activity that you're doing, you need more than just water, right, you're going to need the electrolytes, because the electrolytes become an important part of your hydration. So those are the electrolytes that come from sodium, potassium and phosphorus, and so just drinking water could potentially make you more thirsty if you don't replace the electrolytes, it does.

Christine Zito:

Yes, okay, so, okay. So we talked about water, you, you, and I think it doesn't have to do with with, uh, body it does.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Body composition, yeah, body composition, it does, yeah and I mean if you even look at male versus female usually, I mean you could compare it that way too. But it depends on, again, on what you're doing. It may not be so dependent on, like, your weight per se, but obviously if you're sweating more, you're going to need to replace those electrolytes.

Christine Zito:

That is so very true. Well, that's really interesting when it comes. I never thought of that because you're so used to the internet and everything on the internet is true right.

Christine Zito:

Always, yeah, always, and so they always tell you you need to be doing this or you're going to die. Okay, but now when we talk about water electrolytes, let's talk about that. So when it comes to you know, people say just don't drink just water, and for me it's like it's, it's good when it like when it's useful, yes, but electrolytes, what? What do you suggest? Do you suggest the powder stuff that goes into the water? Or buy those electrolytes waters that you can find in the store?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

you know, sometimes the electrolytes itself. I mean they, they can come from. There's so many companies now that are putting out these, you know, electrolyte drinks. They can get quite expensive. I mean, honestly, you could make this. You could make an easy electrolyte. You know, solution at home. I don't know the exact components, but it is about the sodium and because sodium is such an important electrolyte, it holds onto the water, that is, you know, it's going to attract water ions and if your sodium levels become too low you're just going to become more and more thirsty. Do you like gatorade? You know I'm not a gatorade person. I mean I'm not because in a gatorade there's almost as much sugar, if not the same amount of sugar, in Gatorade, as if I were to just drink a soda.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

But you know, so I really, you know, I'm concerned about electrolytes with sugar, when we don't need all that extra sugar in the drink.

Christine Zito:

Right, I you know for me, I like Gatorade, I do go with the lower sugar. But I do like it, because when I'm out there riding my bike, oh yeah, look, I'll ride from here in Arcadia all the way to the Rose Bowl and back. Oh my gosh, I love it, I love it, I love being on my bike. But anyway, when I when I'm riding and I'm going and I grab for my Gatorade, oh it's so it's so good because of the, because of the salt, more than anything.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Yes replacing that salt, right, right, that's so important because, that's basically you're going to sweat off the extra salt and you got to put it back that is, this is so great I got.

Christine Zito:

There's so many other things I want to talk to you about, but let's get to the food part of it. Sure you have your water. What is, I don't know, I'll just what is the worst food to eat on a hot day?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

uh, I don't know if there is one. I mean, I I really don't. I'm not, not, I don't like to teach or educate or talk about foods as good and bad. Oh okay, I always think there's room for everything. But I think it's more obvious that you're in the summer temperatures, we tend to want to eat more, sometimes lighter. We want to eat more vegetables, more vegetables. I mean, we want to do those things anyways for our health. We want to eat those vegetables and our fruits. They have a lot of water in them so they can contribute to hydration for sure. So it just depends on, but if you're going for, you know, lighter foods, I don't know, maybe you don't want to eat hot chili on a 100 degree day, maybe that's something you don't want to do. But you know, it depends To each his own. You know, I wouldn't categorize foods as good and bad.

Christine Zito:

I would just say, you know, I think it all comes back to hydration, even outside of your food choices. Heat for me, it does not make me hungry, no, yes, heat just like zaps your appetite, it does. So what do you do when? How do I do I?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

just force myself to eat. No, no, I really think again, depending on your physical. I mean, if you're taking a bike ride that day, you're not going to go fasted, you know. I would hope you don't anyway. No.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

So, I think it's going to depend on the activity. If you're, you know, whatever that maybe you're just going to, and even the time of day that you exercise will sort of impact the hydration as well. But when it comes to you're not hungry, I get it. So maybe you might want to think about drinking a protein shake that's cold, that you can add fruit, you could add vegetables to it, and then that would still give you hydration but still give you protein grams at the same time, without having to, like, sit down and eat a meal. But you want to have something. You know you want to eat something if you're going to go, do that type of lengthy activity.

Christine Zito:

Okay for the average person who's not as athletic as. I am yes. When you talk about food plans during the summer, what would be the most typical food plan that you would share with someone during summer versus winter, or is there a difference?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

You know, I think it's again going to depend on you and what you're doing that day. I think we tend to. I kind of like to talk about, maybe, seasonal eating, when it comes to whatever's the most freshest out there. When you go to the markets, try to buy what's in season. You're going to save money that way, versus when it's in fall or winter, you kind of tend to gravitate towards those fall foods. Anyways, I would say most people don't eat like hot soups in the summer. Maybe you want to do some gazpacho or something you know cold soups or, but I I think it's when it comes to like. If you're talking about meal planning, I would still put the emphasis like I personally I'm I don't like to eat in the morning. So I'm going to be the one to do the protein shake with some vegetables and fruit in it, and you know, know I I'm not one to eat if I'm not hungry, but I don't want to skip a meal either.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

So meal planning means you know you're also not skipping the meals and you're not waiting too long, because what's going to happen if you wait too long in between meals? You're gonna starve the star well, no, but what if you get to, if you're getting so hungry by the next meal, you're likely to overeat, and that's what we don't want to. You know that's good, that's very true you're going to overeat, if you're waiting too long in between the meals and people think that you're losing weight, but you don't no, no you're really kind of yeah yeah, you're

Christine Zito:

really teaching your brain to to do something else when it comes to the lack of food so summer, because summer, I think, is the most um type of season that is just so different from other seasons when it comes to appetite, when it comes to health.

Christine Zito:

I mean, a lot of people are out a little bit more, but when it, when the heat comes. So the number one thing that we should be aware of is hydration, and the type of foods that we eat is basically up to what we. I don't know what we're doing that day or what we feel that day, sure. So I guess the question I'm asking when it comes to meal planning in the plan, are you putting more fruits in your plan, more than vegetables? Or is there because summer is just the only reason I say that, because summer is during winter? I, just, it's for me personally, it's just easier to eat, to plan food, yeah, and you can almost eat it, but during the summer, yeah, it's like I I go less on certain things and more on other things, and that makes sense yeah that makes sense.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Sometimes, um I I think in the summer we also don't want to turn on our ovens and we don't want to cook a lot of things like that, so maybe we turn to convenience foods, which can sometimes get us into trouble. But if we just do more, if we did more salads with protein, and we did fruits you were mentioning.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

eating fruit is going to be important, but it's still we don't want to overdo it, right? There's always that too much of a good thing we don't want to do carrots and you look orange after a while.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Exactly you might. So I think it's a balance. I would say it's the balance of those fruits and vegetables throughout the day. And again, maybe you don't feel like cooking and so you're going to gravitate more towards eating the salads, or I think you're right A lot of times in the summer our appetites are maybe a little bit lighter.

Christine Zito:

Right. I just want to just kind of inform people for your information on food that is better for you in the summer than it is for the winter. If there's such a thing, is food better? What foods are better for you in the summer than it is for the winter? But I don't know if there is such a topic.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Not really, Not really. Again, I don't want to demonize any food. You know I like that, not really.

Christine Zito:

Again, I don't want to demonize any food. You know I like that, so it's hard for me to navigate these questions you know, but I think, for the family, I think it's just a matter of planning accordingly to the health of the person, right and the health of their family Right. Right. So let me ask you this Is watermelon too much water to eat all the time?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

well, watermelon is still a fruit. It still has sugar. I mean it, you know you. You can overdo it, I think, as with any fruit oh, you know what with the sugar?

Christine Zito:

let me ask you something about sugar. I've always wanted to ask somebody this and I and you and I have had conversations because of the things that I go through. But, like sugar, I've cut back on sugar, okay, and what a difference in my life. I mean, I feel more energetic, uh-huh. So now I'm careful with like watermelon it has its own natural sugar. So if I were to make like a watermelon drink, okay, so and it tastes great, yeah, and then I add the sugar, add more sugar, yeah, now wouldn't that be?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

not a good thing, right right so that's where we kind of lose the, the, we lose the nutrient density of of it and we end up making it more calorie dense.

Christine Zito:

Yeah it does, and I've learned a lot about carbs, yeah, you know. So I don't eat a lot of carbs at night because I don't want to sit in my uh-huh, in my system overnight, uh-huh. And then, when you know, the only time I eat carbs at night is when I do a race or something the next day makes sense because then I get up and I burn that all off.

Christine Zito:

You are yeah so, um, okay, going back to sugar, I mean we can go on and I can just talk to you about all this stuff and food and the things I've learned when it comes to food, especially during the summer. What other tips and safe things that people should be doing during the heat?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Yeah, I mean, I think we think about grilling outside. We could talk about grilling. We could talk about, you know, if you're cooking more outdoors, there's ways to do that in a healthier way. I know sometimes as a dietician, we talk about grilling things that are not overly burned, because that is can create a carcinogen, what we call a carcinogen. You know the burned meats and things like that that we often see.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

So that could be a whole nother topic I love grilling during the summer yeah, better than heating up your house yes, yeah, and you can grill vegetables, you can grill protein and you can grill. I'm gonna grill some plums this weekend, so I you're gonna grill? Yes, I'm gonna grill a plum. I am you. Just cut them, you know, in half and get the little seed out and you can grill plums. Put a little frozen yogurt over it. It's amazing. Oh my gosh, I've never even heard what else. What other fruits can you grill? Peaches, peaches, you can grill peaches, yes.

Christine Zito:

Have you ever done this.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Brian, have you grilled a peach? Yes, so good. With a little bit of. I like it with yogurt. You can do with regular ice cream. It comes out really good and there's pretty sturdy fruit, so they'll hold up to the grilling. It's not like you're gonna over.

Christine Zito:

You know they're not gonna turn right, right, but I like grilling vegetables like zucchini. Yeah, um, I see one of my, I love that's one of my asparagus. That's like one of my favorites wrapping it up in bacon. Yes, oh my god, is bacon okay?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

well, bacon, I'm like bacon's one of those things I don't know, it's gotta, you just gotta. It's all about the balance, right, so I I don't think you have to do without it, but it's all about the balance. Prosciutto would be maybe a thinner, better choice.

Christine Zito:

Oh, okay, that is a um. One of my favorite vegetables that I'm addicted to now is, uh, spaghetti squash. Love that? Yes, my gosh, it is so good. I love spaghetti. I mean, you can, you can almost eat it by itself. Yes, and and because usually I, you know, I'm italian, so I put, I make it like spaghetti and put my spaghetti sauce on it and some meatballs once in a while, or I put a bunch of vegetables on it like broccoli.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

So good and low carb. You know it's such a great low carb option.

Christine Zito:

Okay, carbohydrates what are good carbohydrates to eat before going to bed? I guess I'm asking what their lower carbs.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Yeah, to bed, which would be, I guess I'm asking what their lower carbs? Yeah, so if you look at, I mean it. Again, it depends on what you're going back to, what you're doing, but you know we don't want to go to. I always talk about carbs being um, again, not to pick on one particular one but, you know, I I think the the key with carbohydrates is fiber.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

If that has good fiber in it and it's going to make it a better choice, how about we use that word instead? It's going to make it a better choice. So things like a sweet potato instead of a white potato, the spaghetti squash, a white potato, talking about Just like plain white russet potatoes.

Christine Zito:

Oh, because I love the white sweet potatoes. Yeah, well, those are.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Yeah, sweet potatoes still have more fiber? Yeah, they have more fiber and they're better. They're more nutrient, dense per se. Even the purple yams. Have you seen those? Oh, love it.

Christine Zito:

Yeah, I just I'm so. I just I got on this vegetable kick and learning all the learning. Vegetables are good to grill too.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Yeah, oh, really, yes, grill those, those purple yams. Oh so good. Can you grill spaghetti squash? You know, I haven't tried that. That's a good question, I think, because you have to take, yeah, it takes a long time to bake it.

Christine Zito:

I know that squash, yeah oh, there you go see, that goes into the fall stuff right, yeah right. I just it's squash. Yeah, it's great for the summer. Okay, so do you have any classes coming up there at USC?

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Yeah, well, I teach the diabetes classes. They are free to our community and so if you just go onto the USC website, you can just look up diabetes classes and anybody is welcome to register for the classes. I do teach one in person and then I teach another one that is virtual, so you can sign up for a virtual class. We meet on Microsoft Teams and then we provide a link when you sign up on the website and then you can just come on into the class oh, that's great and meet Victoria.

Christine Zito:

You'll love her. That's right, and you can. I mean, there's so much more. We're running out of time and there's so much more You've got to come back. We've got to talk about more. Oh, definitely.

Brian Greene:

And you've got to bring recipes.

Christine Zito:

That's what we're going to do next time. Oh, that would be so fun. You're going to bring recipes and you're going to bring samples. Yeah, arcadia Hospital, that's where Victoria is at, and even Brian. Brian is here. Um, brian, why don't you come over here to this microphone? I know it's, you have to kind of it's, it's kind of a. You have to kind of move that up. Brian is yeah, you have to kind of. Just you could. Now he's bending down because, yeah, I know that that's, this is a for is this yeah?

Christine Zito:

that's good. Oh, there you are.

Brian Greene:

So, brian, I think you guys need a weekly show, you guys just riff off each other and it's interesting and it's so funny. I've known Victoria now almost 10 years, but every time I talk to her I learn something new about nutrition. You think you've talked to somebody and you learned all you can. No, we're learning about spaghetti squash. We're barbecuing. We're grilling plums, yeah, plums and peaches. I'm going to go home and try that that's right.

Christine Zito:

What do you do at the hospital?

Brian Greene:

I work in marketing at the hospital, trying to promote all the great programs and services that the hospital has, so I'm very busy, since there are so many great programs and services.

Christine Zito:

Yeah, and also too. Victoria will leave for me the information. I'll put it on ArcadiaFYIcom. Thank you so much for being here, brian. Thank you for sneaking in here.

Brian Greene:

Pleasure.

Victoria Buxton-Pacheco:

Thank you.

Christine Zito:

Christine, all right, and if you have anything you want to hear, I want to hear about it and you can do that by going to ArcadiaFYIcom, fill out the form and I will get in touch with you and work on getting that show. On Arcadia FYI, I would like to thank our sponsors Longo, toyota and El Monte. You got to stop by. They're on this huge acreage, it's like a mall. You just got to check it out. Star 7 Financial with Francine Chu. I love you.

Christine Zito:

The Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, chelsea, you are wonderful. Pete's even going to be on. Pete Sibereau is going to be on talking about the Olympics and other things that you probably don't even know that go on at the Santa Anita Park. It's really a lot of fun. And to Gabby and Blanca over at the Limeridian Pasadena Arcadia Hotel they're great people. I love that hotel. You got to go to the bar, you got to go to the restaurant. There's so many things that happen in Arcadia. Until next time on Arcadia FYI, be blessed and make it a great day. Make it a great week.