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Nutrition

2018

Healthy defaults

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Creating Healthy Eating Habits: Easy Strategies To Lose Weight & Make Healthy Nutrition Changes, Monica Moore Oct 2018

Creating Healthy Eating Habits: Easy Strategies To Lose Weight & Make Healthy Nutrition Changes, Monica Moore

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This pamphlet discusses healthy defaults, encourages behavior change, and offers suggestions of how to make healthy changes in different settings in daily life to improve nutrition choices and weight loss success.


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 …


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.


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.


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.


Healthy Eating For Children With High Blood Pressure, Une Applied Nutrition Program Apr 2018

Healthy Eating For Children With High Blood Pressure, Une Applied Nutrition Program

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This pamphlet provides healthy eating information for children who have high blood pressure. It introduces the concept of food defaults and provides suggestions for implementing healthy food defaults.


How To Ditch The Diet For A Lifestyle: A Balanced Eating Approach For Women, Malena Martinez Apr 2018

How To Ditch The Diet For A Lifestyle: A Balanced Eating Approach For Women, Malena Martinez

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The brochure was developed for obese and overweight women who have regained weight after dieting (“yo-yo” dieting). It examines the health risks and issues associated with dieting amongst American women. A balanced eating approach is promoted as it can be used to reach or manage a healthy weight and is recommended for women by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Healthy defaults are included with meal preparation, physical activity, and other adaptable habits as well as nutrition recommendations to help women lead a healthy lifestyle.


Defeat The Obstacles You're Facing While Trying To Lose Pregnancy Weight., Nour Zaza Apr 2018

Defeat The Obstacles You're Facing While Trying To Lose Pregnancy Weight., Nour Zaza

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New mothers wanting to breastfeed worry about losing weight. It is challenging to lose weight and keep milk supply to support infant's growth. This suggests changing health defaults in order to help new mothers to lose the weight they gained during pregnancy. Small changes and alternatives that can lead lifestyle without stressing about compromising milk supply.