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Allergen Free Party, Amber Rains

All Student-Created Educational Resources

This infographic informs the audience about children and food allergies. Often times, parents of children with food allergies are educated about the dangers of exposure to food allergens, this infographic is intended to create awareness in all people who may come in contact with a child with food allergies.

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

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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.

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.

Immune-Boosting Nutritional Strategies For Collegiate Athlete: How-To Pamphlet, Lyndie Kelley

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This handout is designed to inform collegiate athletes about various nutritional strategies that can provide a positive boost to their immune system during their competitive season. Collegiate athletes are a population that tends to experience high levels of both acute and chronic illness, especially upper respiratory-related infections due to poor nutrition, poor rest and recovery and tendencies to over-train. The amount of high-intensity training sessions that occur in succession can lead to chronic immunosuppression in collegiate athletes. Chronic or acute Illness can lead to missed training or competitive opportunities and can negatively influence a student-athlete’s success and overall health.

Nutrition Campaign, Brittany Taylor-Whitmer

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This infographic outlines the need for a campaign to educate the public (primarily 25-35 year old) on nutrition fear mongering and how to recognize it.

Native American Food And Culture Fact Sheet, Une Applied Nutrition Program

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This handout informs the audience about a variety of traditional eating patterns of Native Americans and how those have transitioned over time. Foods that were historically incorporated into common meals were discussed.

Why To Target Young Families On Social Media To Increase Csa Shares, Nicole Lindsay

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This infographic shows the key reasons why it would be beneficial for a local farm to target social media campaigns for an audience of young families. Business and financial benefits are explained, in addition to public health and nutrition improvements for young children and families.

Your Healthy Eating Game Plan, Julie Westbrook

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This handout is designed to help an adolescent girl start making positive changes in her own life. The key pieces of advice are: be an active participant in your health decisions, eat more fruits and vegetables, eat breakfast, don’t make foods forbidden, limit soda intake, eat heart-healthy foods rich in potassium, fiber, magnesium, and calcium, low-sodium foods and beverages without caffeine.

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.

How To Prevent Childhood Obesity, Uyen Lam

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This handout explains what causes childhood obesity, the effective solutions, and how to prevent it.

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.

Adjusting To Life With Heart Disease?, Lauren Deipolyi

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This pamphlet educates patients diagnosed with heart disease. It includes tips for healthy lifestyle practices, healthy eating habits, foods that can help and foods to avoid. Also, how to read a nutrition label and strategies for sticking to goals.

Resetting Healthy Defaults: Live Your Best Life With Ms., Une Applied Nutrition Program

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This pamphlet is designed to give a basic overview of what health defaults are. It supplies examples and offers advice to set healthy defaults. It addresses nutrition concerns for people with MS. It also outlines other aspects of areas to attempt to develop healthy lifestyle defaults. It also has helpful websites to provide additional information.

Mexican Food And Culture Fact Sheet, Mallory Doolan

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This fact sheet informs the audience about Mexican food traditions, culture, and cuisine. Staple foods, significant holidays and dishes, and typical food customs are discussed. Traditional health beliefs and current food practices are also discussed.

Eating Right For A Healthy Smile!, K. Michelle Head

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This printable handout discusses easy-to-follow tips for mothers and their children to observe for healthy eating and drinking habits (aka “healthy defaults”) for good oral hygiene. The tri-fold also addresses the benefits good oral health has on whole-body wellness and the risks that are associated with poor diet on oral health. The handout is intended to provide mothers with quick and easy tips that feel effortless that will improve her own health, and her children.

Jamaican Food And Culture Fact Sheet, Lauren Deipolyi

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This handout seeks to inform people about Jamaican food traditions. Different Jamaican dishes, cultural practices and health beliefs are explained.

Traditional French Cuisine Food And Culture Fact Sheet, Rebecca Washuta

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A student-designed food and culture fact sheet.

This handout provides information about French cuisine and dietary habits. Traditional dishes, eating patterns, health beliefs, as well as current nutritional practices are discussed. This fact sheet highlights the importance of food in the French culture.

Traditional Filipino Food: Food And Culture Fact Sheet, Shara Vickers

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A student-designed food and culture fact sheet.

This handout provides the reader with an overview of traditional and culturally significant food served in the Philippines. It also addresses Filipino immigration and the dietary habits of Filipino-Americans. It addresses staple foods, traditional and common dishes, cooking methods and health beliefs.

Food And Culture Fact Sheet: New Zealand, Une Applied Nutrition Program

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A student-designed food and culture fact sheet.

This Fact Sheet is a brief and concise introduction and outline of the traditional cuisine and culture of New Zealand intended to be a resource for the nutrition community about these subjects. Topics include: traditional food, cultural practices and beliefs, food economics, and eating patterns.

The Food And Culture Fact Sheet Of Hungary, Judit Gaspar

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A student-designed food and culture fact sheet.

This fact sheet is a brief overview of Hungary providing information on its food culture, traditional dishes, holidays, food practices, symbolic foods, and eating patterns. It also gives the reader a glance at an average family’s daily habits.

University Of New England Applied Nutrition Graduate Catalog 2017-2018, Une Applied Nutrition Program

Applied Nutrition Program Documents

2017-2018 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 Applied Nutrition 2017/2018 Curriculum And Course Descriptions, Une Applied Nutrition Program

Applied Nutrition Program Documents

2017/2018 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.

University Of New England Applied Nutrition Graduate Catalog 2016-2017, Une Applied Nutrition Program

Applied Nutrition Program Documents

2016-2017 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 Applied Nutrition 2016/2017 Curriculum And Course Descriptions, Une Applied Nutrition Program

Applied Nutrition Program Documents

2016/2017 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.

Ocean Food Systems, Barry A. Costa-Pierce

Marine Sciences Faculty Presentations

Presentation given during session on Food Justice, where Barton Seaver, Director of the Healthy and Sustainable Food Program in the T.H. Chan School of Public Health at Harvard, described a great nutrition and health crisis in America perpetuated by groups demarketing seafood and promoting meat in the American diet. Seaver noted that Americans consume about 167 lbs. of meat a year and only 14 lbs. of seafood, leading to connected public health and environmental crises, heart disease, and obesity.

According to presenter Barry Costa-Pierce:

Seafood systems in the USA are our most insane foods; America imports nearly every seafood we …

30 Days On $200: A Cooking Guide For Tasty & Healthy Eating On A Budget, Benjamin J. Slocum

Osteopathic Medicine Student Projects

Meal planning and cooking guide created to help people on food assistance and others better utilize their resources. This book contains health information, grocery shopping tips, meal planning guides, and easy instruction on cooking and the use of leftovers. With simple-to-read, image-based instruction, it teaches the basics on how to budget, plan meals, make shopping lists, and prepare food. The book assumes no prior cooking experience, and while anyone can benefit from the book regardless of income level, it makes a particular effort to demonstrate preparation for foods commonly acquired at food pantries.