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Everyday Tips To Achieve A Healthy Weight, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program
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.
Nutrition Abcs For Healthy Families, Lauren K. Sullivan
Nutrition Abcs For Healthy Families, Lauren K. Sullivan
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This pamphlet informs the audience of basic nutrition principles for maintaining a healthy weight using healthy diet patterns and increased activity recommendations. It encourages healthful eating, regular activity and utilizing resources as a part of a healthy family lifestyle
Teen Obesity: Solutions To Address The Nutritional And Socio-Economic Factors, Jaya Balasubramanian
Teen Obesity: Solutions To Address The Nutritional And Socio-Economic Factors, Jaya Balasubramanian
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This handout provides solutions to the various challenges facing obese teenagers ranging from how to eat right, plan out the day’s nutrition, smart way to choose school meals, tips to manage weight, how to eat less calories and still feel satiated, including workouts to the daily regimen, cooking at home and lastly, managing the monthly budget to allow finances for grocery and food till the month end.
Establishing Healthy Eating Patterns During Infancy And Childhood, Une Applied Nutrition Program
Establishing Healthy Eating Patterns During Infancy And Childhood, Une Applied Nutrition Program
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This handout informs the audience about healthy defaults for the parents of children before and during the pre-school years. Healthy defaults are decisions about food choices selections that need the smallest effort or conscious thought and yield healthy behaviors. The rationale for establishing healthy eating during childhood will be discussed.
Eat Healthy, Lose Weight, Exercise, Change Your Lifestyle… And Have Fun While Doing It!, Yasmine Abuzeid
Eat Healthy, Lose Weight, Exercise, Change Your Lifestyle… And Have Fun While Doing It!, Yasmine Abuzeid
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This handout depicts four fun ways to help manage obesity, tips on eating healthy, losing weight, exercising and changing lifestyle. All information is based on evidence-based research on these topics.
Setting Your Health Up For Success- A Guide For The New Young Professional, Rebecca Iwata
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.
How To Manage Blood Sugar; Establishing Healthy Defaults, Julie Hiller
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.
Strategies For Parents To Make Healthy Foods Choices For Their Adolescents Who May Face Type 2 Diabetes, Une Applied Nutrition Program
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.
Ways To Healthier Teenage Years, David Troelsch
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, …
Jane’S Guide To Achieving A Healthy Weight, Une Applied Nutrition Program
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.
Healthy Living For Obese Teens, Une Applied Nutrition Program
Healthy Living For Obese Teens, Une Applied Nutrition Program
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This project is a handout completed for the University of New England Applied Nutrition 605 course. It is intended for use by obese adolescents, their parents, and their caretakers. Its application is to aid these obese teens in achieving health and weight loss goals by implementing healthy diet habits and increasing activity levels.
Diabetes Prevention Is In Your Hands: Steps Families Can Take To Prevent Diabetes Now!, Martha Medrano
Diabetes Prevention Is In Your Hands: Steps Families Can Take To Prevent Diabetes Now!, Martha Medrano
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This pamphlet informs the reader of basic steps to take to begin lifestyle changes to prevent diabetes. It takes on a whole family approach therefore parents may use for children at risk for diabetes type 2. In the back, this pamphlet provides the contact information for a dietitian in their clinic.
Obesity With Change, Une Applied Nutrition Program
Obesity With Change, Une Applied Nutrition Program
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This handout depicts the top 10 tips for prevention and treatment of obesity in children and adolescents. There is information that can be useful for anyone to understand and use. Programs are available on an individuals’ need for their health and weight status. Nutrition is important for the body, as well as preventing increased health risk. Treatment options can range from programs, medications, therapy, and counseling. There are other options to use for treatment besides going for surgery; that is only the last option if the individual is severely obese. Exercising can also help children and adolescents know that it …
How To Be A Healthy You, Sean Cairns
How To Be A Healthy You, Sean Cairns
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The handout identifies what being overweight or obese is, what a healthy weight looks like, steps to get to a healthy weight, and how to maintain that healthy weight. The handout also gives additional resources on food lists, food budgeting tips, food assistance programs, website/app that will help with grocery shopping, budgeting, recipes and cooking techniques.
What Is Your Healthy Rhythm?, Mary Ellen Yep
What Is Your Healthy Rhythm?, Mary Ellen Yep
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This handout provokes the audience to redefine their daily routine in hopes of becoming healthier. Many children suffering from being overweight or obese do not always know what healthy means or what it looks like. The objective is to teach teens the importance and how to identify nutrient rich food, exercise, and decrease screen time. Enlightening teens and giving them the tools they need to live healthier lifestyles begins with igniting a love of learning. Suggesting techniques and tactics on how to truly thrive in a world where obesity is constantly advertised will enable our youth today to become healthier …
A Healthy Heart & Cholesterol, Yasmin Barakat
A Healthy Heart & Cholesterol, Yasmin Barakat
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This is an educational handout to inform the audience of the relationship between cholesterol, heart health and what can be done to improve good cholesterol and reduce bad cholesterol. It also provides examples of dietary foods and physical activity that can contribute to a healthier well-being.
Obesity, Une Applied Nutrition Program
Obesity, Une Applied Nutrition Program
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This handout gives general information about the basics of obesity, what it is and some treatment options that may be presented by a clinician or nutrition professional.