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Setting Your Health Up For Success- A Guide For The New Young Professional, Rebecca Iwata Oct 2018

Setting Your Health Up For Success- A Guide For The New Young Professional, Rebecca Iwata

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This handout contains helpful tips for young professionals that have recently graduated from college. It explains how to get started with meal planning, scheduling exercise into the week, and how stocking your fridge can help increase the likelihood of making healthy choices.


Principles Of Nutrition (Ghc), Lisa Jellum, Jason Hitzeman, Mark Knauss, Sharryse Henderson, Tom Harnden, Cynthia Elsberry, Greg Ford Jul 2018

Principles Of Nutrition (Ghc), Lisa Jellum, Jason Hitzeman, Mark Knauss, Sharryse Henderson, Tom Harnden, Cynthia Elsberry, Greg Ford

Nursing and Health Sciences Grants Collections

This Grants Collection for Principles of Nutrition was created under a Round Nine ALG Textbook Transformation Grant.

Affordable Learning Georgia Grants Collections are intended to provide faculty with the frameworks to quickly implement or revise the same materials as a Textbook Transformation Grants team, along with the aims and lessons learned from project teams during the implementation process.

Documents are in .pdf format, with a separate .docx (Word) version available for download. Each collection contains the following materials:

  • Linked Syllabus
  • Initial Proposal
  • Final Report


Making Healthy Eating An Easy Part Of Your Child’S Life, Rebecca Modesitt Jul 2018

Making Healthy Eating An Easy Part Of Your Child’S Life, Rebecca Modesitt

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The handout informs the audience on strategies for how to make healthy eating an easy or default choice for young children. It breaks these strategies down in order to make implementation easier for parents.


How To Reverse Type 2 Diabetes By Changing To A Low-Fat, Plant-Based, Whole Foods Diet, Manon Barron Carbajal Jul 2018

How To Reverse Type 2 Diabetes By Changing To A Low-Fat, Plant-Based, Whole Foods Diet, Manon Barron Carbajal

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Diabetes is on the rise across the globe, especially within the aging sector. Changing unhealthy diet and lifestyle “default” habits are an effective means of preventing, managing, and even reversing type 2 diabetes. The current trend in clinical nutrition recommendations involve calorie-counting, portion control, and carbohydrate restriction, including those found in fruits and vegetables. However, after assessing diets from many different populations, worldwide, scientific research studies have determined that the most effective diets, in reducing blood sugar and cholesterol, and improving insulin sensitivity, are low-fat, plant-based, whole foods diets. This pamphlet is intended for a general audience (8th grade …


Daily Fruit And Vegetable Smoothie, Une Applied Nutrition Program Jul 2018

Daily Fruit And Vegetable Smoothie, Une Applied Nutrition Program

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This pamphlet is intended to inform the adult audience on how to create a medley smoothie that answers the recommended daily amounts of fruits and vegetables. The pamphlet will cover which fruits and vegetables to choose (with alternating options), the quantities necessary to answer the recommended daily values, how to organize the food items for the smoothie recipe, how to store them correctly, and the smoothie recipe itself.


Nutrition For The Pregnant Teen, Megan Thompson Jul 2018

Nutrition For The Pregnant Teen, Megan Thompson

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This brochure is intended to provide basic advice to pregnant teenagers on ways to create daily habits. It provides a brief definition of healthy defaults, and why they are important during pregnancy. It contains an overview of the food groups, and how to incorporate them into daily life. It also provides some web resources and names of food assistance programs that may be beneficial for them. Finally, it also suggests ways to use family and friends as source of support as well.


Easy Default Food Switches For Adults Trying To Reduce Their Obesity; An Interactive Experience, Christa Corgatelli Jul 2018

Easy Default Food Switches For Adults Trying To Reduce Their Obesity; An Interactive Experience, Christa Corgatelli

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This pamphlet provides an interactive learning experience for obese adults looking for new ideas to reduce their obesity. It defines and provides examples of foods, location, and situational defaults. The interactive questionnaire helps the reader work through current defaults and demonstrates how to make healthier food choices with given options. Tips are provided to help the reader to handle the location and situational defaults. Finally, how to make these healthy defaults the only defaults with an offer of additional aid if necessary.


College Diet 101, Une Applied Nutrition Program Jul 2018

College Diet 101, Une Applied Nutrition Program

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The main focus is on the typical mindset a college student has when entering into the new environment. It discusses behavior modification, best practices for the goal of making healthier food choices and still staying within budget. Tips for planning ahead, other healthy lifestyle practices and how to pick the right foods when grocery shopping or dining out are also mentioned.


Eat Right In No Time, Bonnie Keating Jul 2018

Eat Right In No Time, Bonnie Keating

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This handout informs the audience on how to eat a healthier diet by planning out meals a week in advance and setting aside time to shop and cook in order to avoid eating convenience food. There are time saving tips for cooking kitchen to help make meal prepping less labor intensive. Also, recommendation for the type of foods to meal prep is provided.


It Begins With You, Pre-Diabetes Prevention Creating Life Long Healthy Habits, Debbie Safra Jul 2018

It Begins With You, Pre-Diabetes Prevention Creating Life Long Healthy Habits, Debbie Safra

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When adults are faced with choices they often choose what is familiar or their go-to favorite. This brochure is intended to educate and provide helpful alternatives to change a habit to help prevent metabolic disorders such as; pre-diabetes and diabetes.


Obesity And Associated Disease Prevention, Caitlin Roth Jul 2018

Obesity And Associated Disease Prevention, Caitlin Roth

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This handout informs the intended audience about obesity and ways to utilize healthy defaults to help prevent chronic diseases including hypertension, type II diabetes, as well as other chronic diseases or to prevent the worsening of other chronic diseases.


How To Manage Blood Sugar; Establishing Healthy Defaults, Julie Hiller Jul 2018

How To Manage Blood Sugar; Establishing Healthy Defaults, Julie Hiller

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The pamphlet educates the audience on strategies to use in managing blood sugar through diet and exercise. This handout introduces the concept of healthy defaults. Suggestions are made on how to implement food and exercise healthy defaults into daily life. Education is also provided on the glycemic index (GI) and low GI foods are suggested.


Fit Kids For Life, Une Applied Nutrition Program Jul 2018

Fit Kids For Life, Une Applied Nutrition Program

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This handout informs nutrition professionals and parents about healthy defaults for children’s food choices as well as recommendations for daily exercise. Meal components, great foods to stock at home, healthy beverages and snacks, grocery store tips and activity suggestions will be discussed.


How To Easily Adopt A Plant-Based Diet For Weight Loss And Health Promotion, Jennifer West Jul 2018

How To Easily Adopt A Plant-Based Diet For Weight Loss And Health Promotion, Jennifer West

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The Healthy Defaults How-To Pamphlet is intended to provide guidance and healthy defaults to assist individuals in adopting a plant-based diet. Tips on how to transition, save time in the kitchen, plant-based swaps, how to set up a power plate, omit oil when cooking and resources such as phone applications for meal plans and recipes, books and documentaries will be discussed.


The Positive No: Identify Optimistic Ways To Create A Healthy Environment As A Mother Suffering From Postpartum Depression, Mary Ellen Yep Jul 2018

The Positive No: Identify Optimistic Ways To Create A Healthy Environment As A Mother Suffering From Postpartum Depression, Mary Ellen Yep

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This handout informs the audience of how to create a healthy environment post pregnancy. Postpartum depression affects so many mothers yet they have no information on how to cope with these newly arrived symptoms. This handout gives positive suggestions of how to implement healthy defaults into a mother’s daily life. Scheduling, exercise, hydration, and nutrition will be discussed.


Having Fun And Getting Healthy, Whitney Huff Jul 2018

Having Fun And Getting Healthy, Whitney Huff

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This handout is geared toward children and families on how to create healthy defaults in order to help their children and other family members get healthy.


Strategies For Parents To Make Healthy Foods Choices For Their Adolescents Who May Face Type 2 Diabetes, Une Applied Nutrition Program Jul 2018

Strategies For Parents To Make Healthy Foods Choices For Their Adolescents Who May Face Type 2 Diabetes, Une Applied Nutrition Program

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This handout informs the audience about the strategies and tips towards making changes to lifestyle for their adolescents who may face or already face Type 2 Diabetes. Informs audience about healthy food choices including fruits, vegetables, lean protein meats and fish. Making default choices based on good feelings, can have favorite foods but in moderation and portions. Parents help children plan and prepare meals. Keep the kitchen stocked with healthy foods and keep processed foods out.


Healthy Alternatives For Your Child, Katrina Lobs Jul 2018

Healthy Alternatives For Your Child, Katrina Lobs

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This pamphlet informs parents of children, roughly aged 6-10, about healthy defaults. It includes statistics, meal prep suggestions, how to make meal time fun, and tips on how to incorporate healthy defaults into all parts of a child’s life.


Designing Your Food Defaults, Kathy Thatcher Jul 2018

Designing Your Food Defaults, Kathy Thatcher

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The pamphlet informs women of the LDS Faith about food defaults, the pre determined food options we encounter in vending machines, fast foods, box lunches, restaurant menus, and catered meals. Food defaults are fast and convenient, but rob us of our choices. The Word of Wisdom is for optimal health, longevity, and spirituality. We value these benefits when we design healthier food defaults for ourselves and those in our circle of influence. Make healthy foods fast and convenient with planning and preparation.


Creating A Healthier Life Through Food And Physical Activity, Une Applied Nutrition Program Jul 2018

Creating A Healthier Life Through Food And Physical Activity, Une Applied Nutrition Program

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This educational handout provides tips for adolescents to adopt in order to create a nutritional and healthful lifestyle based on the HHS and USDA 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines and the HHS Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans.


What Can You Do To Change The Course Of Your Life?, Stephanie Menagh Jul 2018

What Can You Do To Change The Course Of Your Life?, Stephanie Menagh

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This handout provides educational information regarding childhood obesity and lifestyle changes that can be used to help with weight management.


Living Your Best Life, Une Applied Nutrition Program Jul 2018

Living Your Best Life, Une Applied Nutrition Program

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This handout gives tips for weight management, talks about chronic disease, gives a description of obesity and some information on sugar sweetened beverages.


Adolescent Weight Management On A Budget, Nicole Sherrard Jul 2018

Adolescent Weight Management On A Budget, Nicole Sherrard

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It is developed in short, easy to read segments. Topics included are family involvement in meal preparation, what to do and not to do for optimal nutrition status, introduction to MyPlate by the United States Department of Agriculture and financial resources to insure adolescents are properly nourished.


Healthy Habits, Rachael Costello Jul 2018

Healthy Habits, Rachael Costello

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An educational handout designed for families attempting to make healthy changes in their lifestyle. It includes easy to follow tips and ideas to make lifestyle changes that will impact the health of all family members. This includes nutrition and physical activity. There is a recipe included as an example and several web resources for further information.


Ways To Healthier Teenage Years, David Troelsch Jul 2018

Ways To Healthier Teenage Years, David Troelsch

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This educational handout seeks to offer simple ways to improve an eating lifestyle. Through simple changes in lifestyle, like reading a nutrition label, a teenage girl can take control of her nutrition and have a healthy life. Another way to improve health easily is choosing a wide variety of colorful fruits and vegetables. Again, a simple thing that any teenager can accomplish, this provides a better chance for the necessary vitamins and minerals to be consumed throughout the teenage years. All of these simple solutions will also help set teenagers up for a successful and healthy adult life as well, …


What Are The Effects Of Nutrition Counseling Intervention On The Renal Labs (Bun, Creatinine, Gfr) Among Mexican American Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 3-4 At 1 Month, 3 Months And 6 Months?, Laura Rosales Jul 2018

What Are The Effects Of Nutrition Counseling Intervention On The Renal Labs (Bun, Creatinine, Gfr) Among Mexican American Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 3-4 At 1 Month, 3 Months And 6 Months?, Laura Rosales

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This is a quantitative quasi-experiment that will use purposive sampling to recruit the Mexican American adult patients diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in Stages 1 and 2 and have not been diagnosed with Diabetes or received nutrition intervention for CKD. The purpose of this research is to identify at what stage nutrition counseling has a significant result on renal labs from patients diagnosed with CKD. The data from this research would provide information needed for medical providers to use in their treatment course for their patients with CKD.


Nutrition Education For The Dental Hygienist: An Intervention Using An Online Curriculum, Lindsy Rhead Jul 2018

Nutrition Education For The Dental Hygienist: An Intervention Using An Online Curriculum, Lindsy Rhead

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This submission includes an abstract and poster for a proposed nutrition education intervention for dental hygiene students. The purpose of this project is to evaluate the efficacy of an online applied nutrition course in improving nutrition knowledge and confidence levels in dental hygienists.


Jane’S Guide To Achieving A Healthy Weight, Une Applied Nutrition Program Jul 2018

Jane’S Guide To Achieving A Healthy Weight, Une Applied Nutrition Program

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This handout is a simple guide to assist a female teenager in reducing and maintaining a healthy weight for her age. It includes tips on how many calories to consume, how to make healthier nutrition choices, and also other non-nutrition related suggestions for increasing physical activity.


Simple Health Snacks For Parents & Kids, Hannah Harvey Jul 2018

Simple Health Snacks For Parents & Kids, Hannah Harvey

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This pamphlet touches upon risk factors of childhood obesity and obesity in general, and provides lifestyle recommendations for reducing risk and improving health. It includes suggestions for behavior and good habits that can be implemented in daily life to improve health and well-being, as well as various food type and meal suggestions.


School Lunch Standard Adherence And The Effects On Body Mass Index For 3rd-5th Grade Elementary School Children, Cliff Coggins Jul 2018

School Lunch Standard Adherence And The Effects On Body Mass Index For 3rd-5th Grade Elementary School Children, Cliff Coggins

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This submission is an IRB Protocol design to assess the effect of the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program in accordance with the Nation School Lunch Program on 3rd-5th grade children from two separate schools. The study will measure fruit and vegetable intake as well as the correlation with BMI z-score over the course of the SY 18-19.