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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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What The Health Are You Talking About?, Andrea Hall

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This handout conveys bullet points regarding how a teenager can make healthy eating and lifestyle choices. It provides further resources for the client to access.

University Of New England Applied Nutrition Graduate Catalog 2018-2019, Une Applied Nutrition Program

Applied Nutrition Program Documents

2018-2019 graduate catalog for the University of New England's Applied Nutrition program.

This information is also available from UNE's Registrar under archived catalogs.

University Of New England: Master Of Science In Applied Nutrition 2018/2019 Curriculum And Course Descriptions, Une Applied Nutrition Program

Applied Nutrition Program Documents

2018/2019 curriculum and course description from the University of New England's Applied Nutrition Program.

This information is also available from UNE's Registrar under search course catalog.

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.

Food And Culture Fact Sheet: Somalia, Une Applied Nutrition Program

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This fact sheet provides information about the Somali culture and food preferences. It discusses traditional eating patterns, foods and beverages. It also touches on traditional Somali health beliefs and the influences that religion and the American diet have had on the Somali diet.

The Risks You Toss When Getting Lean, Une Applied Nutrition Program

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This handout illustrates the risks associated with overweight and obesity as well as evidence for how losing weight can reduce these risks. This is meant to be a motivational handout for those looking to improve their health through weight loss. The information in this handout is completely evidence-based and cites the articles from which each fact came so as to provide additional reading materials for those looking to learn more about their health and the benefits of losing weight.

Cardiac Rehab: Heart Healthy Eating Made Easy, Une Applied Nutrition Program

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This handout serves as an introduction to three main concepts of heart healthy eating. These concepts include increasing fiber intake, decreasing sodium consumption and considering following an evidence-based heart-healthy eating pattern.

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 …

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.

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.

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 …

Healthy In A Hurry, Camron Stotts

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How-to pamphlet about quick tips for a heart healthy lifestyle.

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.

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.

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.

Corporate Balance Connection Nutrition Campaign, Une Applied Nutrition Program

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This infographic informs the audience of the Corporate Balance Connection campaign and would be a tool utilized on the campaign website, social media platforms, and as a physical advertisement handout.

Food And Culture; Views And Patterns Of Nutrition In Cuba, Elizabeth Westfeldt

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This fact sheet is designed to educate nutrition professionals about the nutrition and cultural identity of Cuba through food. Traditional Cuban foods, recipes and social patterns around eating. Present historical health beliefs and implications on health prospect. Assess growing health concerns in response to influx of processed foods and post Cuban Revolution rationing. Includes Cuban-American culture and health statistics. This fact sheet is designed to meet an eight-grade literacy level to serve as an educational tool for diverse populations.

The Food And Culture Of Haiti, Sarah E. Deitz

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This fact sheet allows the reader to learn about the staple foods and dishes of Haitian cuisine. Trends and health beliefs of the Haitian culture are briefly discussed and defined. The information is intended to help nutrition professionals have a better understanding of Haitian people by learning about their food and nutrition customs.