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Fresh Fruit And Veggies For Correctional Facilities, Katie Melara Jan 2022

Fresh Fruit And Veggies For Correctional Facilities, Katie Melara

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This handout depicts the benefits of fresh fruit and vegetables for incarcerated people and their communities, with proposed solutions for increasing fresh produce in correctional facilities. The content of this handout is based primarily on information Eating Behind Bars: Ending the Hidden Punishment of Food in Prison Report by Impact Justice.


Are Hormones Impacting Weight Gain?, Brannon Blount Jan 2022

Are Hormones Impacting Weight Gain?, Brannon Blount

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A brochure explaining hormones and weight gain are directly related.


How Hormones Control Your Weight, University Of New England Jan 2022

How Hormones Control Your Weight, University Of New England

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A brochure that educates the general pubic on how hormones regulate body weight.


Hormonal Regulation Of Weight, Tatiana Larionova Jan 2022

Hormonal Regulation Of Weight, Tatiana Larionova

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A brochure on the hormonal regulation of weight.


How Do My Hormones Affect My Body Weight?, Cristina Clark Jan 2022

How Do My Hormones Affect My Body Weight?, Cristina Clark

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A Brochure about Hormones and Body Weight


Live Your Best Life: Knock Out Prediabetes With Healthy Defaults, Micheline Cormier Apr 2021

Live Your Best Life: Knock Out Prediabetes With Healthy Defaults, Micheline Cormier

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This how-to pamphlet informs readers on healthy defaults and their role in fostering an environment conducive to successful behavior change in the prediabetic population. It defines prediabetes and healthy defaults and provides prediabetes risk factors. Tips are also suggested to apply food and lifestyle healthy defaults in everyday situations at home or work. Finally, readers are encouraged to personalize healthy defaults to make them permanent and live their best life.


Your Health, Your Choice: Pre-Teens Guide For A Healthy Life, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program Apr 2021

Your Health, Your Choice: Pre-Teens Guide For A Healthy Life, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program

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This handout informs pre-teens and their families on how to understand individual food choices and create healthier defaults for optimal nutrition


Maximizing Roi On Executive Health, John Romanelli Apr 2021

Maximizing Roi On Executive Health, John Romanelli

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This educational brochure provides a general overview of what healthy defaults are and how they can be applied in a corporate setting to improve dietary intake and increase physical activity. Specific examples are given as well as the expected benefits that both the individual and the organization can expect to achieve.


Healthy Defaults For Children, Tara Murray Apr 2021

Healthy Defaults For Children, Tara Murray

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This handout informs children and their parents on what a healthy default is and some tips on achieving it. Kid friendly recipes are included to try as well.


Take Charge, Mollie Bartles Jan 2021

Take Charge, Mollie Bartles

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This educational handout highlights the benefits of a healthier lifestyle and how it is possible to eat on a budget.


Adolescent Obesity Case Study, Rachel Salvitti Jan 2021

Adolescent Obesity Case Study, Rachel Salvitti

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This handout shows some easy to digest information regarding adolescent obesity. It is targeted towards girls and suggests what they should or should not include in their daily habits to reduce their risk or continued development of obesity. The information presented is based off of MyPlate recommendations, as well as other studies of dietary interventions to improve health of adolescents suffering from or at risk of obesity.


Everyday Tips To Achieve A Healthy Weight, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program Jan 2021

Everyday Tips To Achieve A Healthy Weight, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program

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This handout depicts six evidence-based practices to help overweight and obese individuals achieve a healthy weight. These tips are meant to be easily integrated into everyday life, and are backed by the CDC, USDA, and multiple scientific studies and reviews.


Adolescent Obesity: Causes, Risks And Interventions, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program Jan 2021

Adolescent Obesity: Causes, Risks And Interventions, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program

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To provide concise information about adolescent obesity to include the common causes, risk factors, immediate and long-term health risks. This handout also strives to deliver basic nutrition education and easy-to-access resources for more information.


Want To Be A Sugar Detective?!, Janie Mcamis Jan 2021

Want To Be A Sugar Detective?!, Janie Mcamis

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An educational handout for an adolescent confused about the difference of added sugars and natural sugars. The purpose of this handout is to help educate an adolescent about added sugar and natural sugars found in common food items. The difference between added sugar and natural sugar is addressed. The handout explains where this information can be located on a nutritional label. This educational handout also addresses risks seen with excessive added sugar intake in recent research for the adolescent population


Know Your Nutrition, Melinda Arcara Jan 2021

Know Your Nutrition, Melinda Arcara

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This educational handout helps patients become aware of total calories, key macronutrients and there AMDR ranges. Facts that include recommended quantities of saturated fats and sodium as well as healthy lifestyle and food recommendations.


Healthy Your Way, Susan Newkirk Jan 2021

Healthy Your Way, Susan Newkirk

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This handout depicts four lifestyle habits to integrate into everyday life to reduce your risk obesity and chronic diseases.


How To Make Healthy Easting Easy, Morgan Frederick Oct 2020

How To Make Healthy Easting Easy, Morgan Frederick

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This handout is meant to educate the audience on how to use healthy defaults to make healthy eating easier. It gives techniques for planning and prepping simple healthy meals and snacks.


Supporting A Healthy School Environment For Students With Diabetes, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program Oct 2020

Supporting A Healthy School Environment For Students With Diabetes, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program

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This pamphlet provides a very basic introduction to diabetes. It includes strategies for teachers of students with type 1 or type 2 diabetes to support their students blood sugar management needs. It also includes strategies for school administrators to alter the school environment to help students make healthier choices


5 Tips To Healthy Eating In College, Tim Viall Oct 2020

5 Tips To Healthy Eating In College, Tim Viall

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This pamphlet informs the audience about the principles of healthy defaults, as well as tips for eating healthy in a college dining hall setting.


The Metabolic Syndrome, Are You At Risk? Lifestyle Changes You Can Make Today, Scarlet Louis-Jean Oct 2020

The Metabolic Syndrome, Are You At Risk? Lifestyle Changes You Can Make Today, Scarlet Louis-Jean

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The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is globally increasing at epidemic proportions. The metabolic syndrome is considered one of the more common non-communicable diseases, reportedly three times more common than diabetes. In the US alone, approximately 34 per cent of Americans were diagnosed with the condition during the 2007-2012 era, however, the percentage of afflicted adults continues to grow. The cause of this condition has been associated with genetic predisposition, epigenetic alterations, nutritional choices, and physical inactivity. Although this list is non-exhaustive, the latter two causes are often thought to be due to the adoption of westernized approaches to diet …


Creating A Healthy Home Environment For Good Nutrition, Victoria Kleyner Jul 2020

Creating A Healthy Home Environment For Good Nutrition, Victoria Kleyner

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This is a brochure which gives tools to people who are trying to avoid dining out in order to improve their nutrition by eating at home. However, they need more information and guidance as to how to do this successfully. Obesity is not only a product of eating at restaurants outside of the house, but it is also caused by eating habits throughout the day at home, which stem from grocery shopping practices. The information provided creates awareness that well-intentioned home eating habits can still be damaging to health, and offer advice as to how somebody can set up their …


Nutrition For New Mothers: Healthy Defaults For A Healthier You, Stephanie Williams Jul 2020

Nutrition For New Mothers: Healthy Defaults For A Healthier You, Stephanie Williams

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This pamphlet informs the audience about how to make healthier choices by utilizing healthy defaults. Tips will be discussed throughout the pamphlet on reducing your risk for obesity and other chronic diseases, postpartum healthy defaults, and breastfeeding for new mothers.


Healthy Eating For Preschoolers, Amanda Soleim Jul 2020

Healthy Eating For Preschoolers, Amanda Soleim

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This brochure educates parents on how to encourage healthy eating habits in their preschoolers to prevent childhood obesity. It provides ideas on how parents can adjust their normal routines or environments in order to make healthy choices easier and more convenient.


Diabetes Management, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program Jul 2020

Diabetes Management, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program

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This educational pamphlet provides information on diabetes management for young adults with type 2 diabetes. Healthy habits and environmental defaults are reviewed. Tips are provided to overcome unhealthy default behaviors through lifestyle improvements.


Indian Cuisine: Food And Culture Fact Sheet, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program Jan 2020

Indian Cuisine: Food And Culture Fact Sheet, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program

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This handout aims to inform the audience food staples and dishes in India and traditional dishes that are prepared. Preparation of Indian dishes and culturally significant food staples along with ingredients that are commonly used, religious influences, traditional eating patterns, and health beliefs are discussed.


Filipino Food, Dietary Customs, And Health Beliefs, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program Jan 2020

Filipino Food, Dietary Customs, And Health Beliefs, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program

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This fact sheet serves as an educational resource for learners seeking information about Filipino dietary practices and health beliefs. Traditional and symbolic Filipino foods and dishes are reviewed, along with traditional eating patterns, health beliefs, and food practices.


Eating In Greece, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program Jan 2020

Eating In Greece, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program

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This fact sheet is about the culture and traditions in Greece revolving around food. The fact sheet talks about how the Greeks continue to consume their traditional diet in Greece as well as in the United States. The traditional diet is discussed in context of the day to day routines and on special holidays. How this particular diet influences the health of the Greek people is discussed as well.


Indian Food And Culture Fact Sheet, Brooke Robinson Jan 2020

Indian Food And Culture Fact Sheet, Brooke Robinson

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This is an informational handout covering the traditional cuisines of various regions throughout the Indian subcontinent. Religious influences regarding food choice and fasting, traditional health beliefs, eating patterns and etiquette, and common health issues experienced by the Indian population who acculturate to American culture are discussed.


Spanish Cuisine: A Mediterranean Diet, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program Jan 2020

Spanish Cuisine: A Mediterranean Diet, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program

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This is a facts sheet that informs the reader about the traditions and historical influences of Spain’s Mediterranean diet. It includes the daily routine of eating with the staple dishes of the Culture. The idea of social settings and the process of how a meal usually goes along with the significance of each eating time and health beliefs of Spain that influence their food selections. The intended audience is other health professionals working with other cultures of Spanish origin.


Food And Culture Of Ethiopia, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program Jan 2020

Food And Culture Of Ethiopia, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program

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An educational fact sheet highlighting the food and culture in Ethiopia. The fact sheet will be used as a resource for my peers in the field of nutrition and to educate them about the traditional ethnic cuisine of Ethiopia and how it relates to nutrition.