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Take Charge, Mollie Bartles
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: Causes, Risks And Interventions, University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program
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.
Healthy Your Way, Susan Newkirk
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.
Nutrition For New Mothers: Healthy Defaults For A Healthier You, Stephanie Williams
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.
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
Healthy Choices: The Building Blocks Of A Healthy Lifestyle (An Educational Handout), University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program
Healthy Choices: The Building Blocks Of A Healthy Lifestyle (An Educational Handout), University Of New England Applied Nutrition Program
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This educational handout provides guidance for healthy weight management through lifestyle interventions including healthy eating, exercise and familial involvement.
Five Tips For Choosing Healthy Foods For Teens (A Handout), Mallory Lavoie
Five Tips For Choosing Healthy Foods For Teens (A Handout), Mallory Lavoie
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This handout depicts five ways that teens can make healthier food choices.
Teen Obesity: Tips To Take Control Of Your Diet And Make A Difference Every Day, Zachary York
Teen Obesity: Tips To Take Control Of Your Diet And Make A Difference Every Day, Zachary York
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This handout provides an overview of obesity and includes tips designed to motivate and assist teenagers toward making healthy choices to support overall health and well-being. Topics range from identifying nutritious foods, knowing when to eat, how to become more physically active, and having fun with food. The goal of the handout is to provide accessible and easy to understand information to empower overweight adolescents to make important connections eating well, exercising, and how they look and feel on a day-to-day basis.
Obesity In Adolescents (Handout), Kathy Palys
Obesity In Adolescents (Handout), Kathy Palys
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The handout briefly discusses obesity in the adolescents. It covers possible causes, risk factors, and some simple solutions.
Easy Adjustments To Create Success In Your Health Journey, Stephanie Menagh
Easy Adjustments To Create Success In Your Health Journey, Stephanie Menagh
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This handout informs readers about different ways to utilize healthy defaults in daily life. Definition of healthy defaults, prevalence and concerns with obesity, and methods to create small everyday lifestyle changes are discussed.
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.
Childhood Obesity: What You Can Do For Your Child, Gabrielle Parks
Childhood Obesity: What You Can Do For Your Child, Gabrielle Parks
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This handout provides information to parents regarding the causes of obesity. It provides several ways parents can help prevent obesity in their children as well as health outcome should children remain obese into adulthood.
Work Well Being, Kerry Donnelly
Work Well Being, Kerry Donnelly
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This handout intends to educate individuals on how to form a workplace environment supportive of healthy dietary behaviors. It discusses the concept of healthy defaults and how to implement this approach into personal and professional lives. Topics covered include break time routines, healthy snacking and the obesogenic environment.
Creating Healthy Eating Habits: Easy Strategies To Lose Weight & Make Healthy Nutrition Changes, Monica Moore
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.
Start Today! Tips To Start Living Your Best Life, Jessica Atlee
Start Today! Tips To Start Living Your Best Life, Jessica Atlee
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This handout depicts healthy eating and active living suggestions, including water consumption, sleep habits, goal-setting, appropriate snacking, best practices while cooking, and suggestions for mealtimes.
Reducing Health Risk Through Weight Management, Une Applied Nutrition Program
Reducing Health Risk Through Weight Management, Une Applied Nutrition Program
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This handout discusses the basics of energy balance, risks associated with overweight/obesity and basic introductory nutrition education for overall health, weight management, and disease prevention.
Childhood Obesity: Assessing A Case Study, Une Applied Nutrition Program
Childhood Obesity: Assessing A Case Study, Une Applied Nutrition Program
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The following project assesses a case study for a young adolescent girl. She was referred to her health care provider due to excess weight. Her BMI is above the 96th percentile resulting in obesity, which caused concern to her family. Obesity, diabetes, and high blood pressure run in her family so she is at increased risk of developing a non-communicable disease when she gets older if she does not gain the proper nutritional needs and education. The purpose of this project is to assess a 3-day meal plan that the young adolescent typically consumes then develop interventions and goals …
A Teen’S Guide To Healthy Eating, Une Applied Nutrition Program
A Teen’S Guide To Healthy Eating, Une Applied Nutrition Program
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This handout explains 5 ways to live a healthier life simply by getting physical activity, eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, drinking water, never skipping meals and providing a helping hand in the kitchen.
The Fight Against Overweight And Obesity Among Adolescents, Jordan Reichel
The Fight Against Overweight And Obesity Among Adolescents, Jordan Reichel
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The purpose of this handout is to use evidence-based research to educate the adolescents population about the growing problem of overweight and obesity among youth in this age group. This handout describes the criteria for being considered overweight or obese during adolescence. Possible risk factors for adolescent overweight and obesity are identified. The handout discusses the burden of disease and the potential consequences associated with being overweight or obese as an adolescent. Behavior modification strategies for preventing or treating overweight and obesity in adolescent’s are also described.
Easy Default Food Switches For Adults Trying To Reduce Their Obesity; An Interactive Experience, Christa Corgatelli
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.
Obesity And Associated Disease Prevention, Caitlin Roth
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.
Having Fun And Getting Healthy, Whitney Huff
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.
Living Your Best Life, Une Applied Nutrition Program
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.
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.
Creating Success With Prediabetes: A Healthy Defaults Guide, Sarah E. Deitz
Creating Success With Prediabetes: A Healthy Defaults Guide, Sarah E. Deitz
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This pamphlet helps to inform adult individuals who are pre-diabetic on how they can lower their risk for the future development of diabetes are included. Action steps, healthy defaults, and the risk factors for pre-diabetes/diabetes. It is not solely intended for those who are pre-diabetic; it could also be helpful for those who are overweight or obese with or without a family history of diabetes. The pamphlet's intended use would be for nutrition education in the outpatient, inpatient, or private setting.
How To Ditch The Diet For A Lifestyle: A Balanced Eating Approach For Women, Malena Martinez
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.
Protein And Weight Management, Patrick Langley
Protein And Weight Management, Patrick Langley
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The handout represents 5 ways to manage your weight via appropriate protein intake, and 10 healthy and lean sources of protein.
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 …
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 …
Talking To Teens About Diet, Candace Nelson
Talking To Teens About Diet, Candace Nelson
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This handout empowers parents to help their teens with obesity through a structured weight management treatment plan.