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Don’t Get Hooked by the See-Food Diet

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A school nurse recently bought our See Food Diet Poster. She says she is trying to get all the kids on a good schedule with eating right, sleeping, and learning after all the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In fact, she loves this poster so much that we made it into a banner for her – yes, all our posters are also available as banners!

The See Food poster features a beautiful fish swimming along in the sea. The fish is tempted by hook after hook baited with not-so-healthy food choices like soda, chili dogs, cake, and candy.

But if the fish takes its eyes off the junk food, it will find a treasure chest spilling over with healthier food choices.

The message? Don’t eat everything you see. Don’t get hooked!

Kids (and adults!) will love this colorful and fun poster. You can use it to generate discussions about:

  1. The food industry and how junk food and fast food are formulated to tempt your tastebuds.
  2. Mindful eating and how to pause instead of automatically taking the bait of unhealthy food.
  3. Planning ahead so you always have healthy foods handy.
  4. Using portion control so you can have occasional treats without overdoing it.
  5. Healthier options at restaurants and convenience stores, for those times when you find yourself hungry and away from home.

By Hollis Bass, MEd, RD, LD

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The Mediterranean Diet Wins Again!

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Once again, US News & World Report rates the Mediterranean diet as number one in its annual ranking of diets.

In addition to being the best diet overall, the Mediterranean diet is also crowned as:

  • The best plant-based diet.
  • The best heart-healthy diet (tied with the Ornish Diet).
  • The best diabetes diet.
  • The best diet for healthy eating.
  • The easiest diet to follow.

When people hear the term Mediterranean diet, they might be intimidated. After all, we’re a long, long way from that part of the world. Won’t all the foods be unfamiliar? Doesn’t it take lots of work to cook them?

You can shatter those myths by holding a webinar or in-person class (or series) using these three products:

  1. The Mediterranean Diet Class PowerPoint is THE authoritative guide to the Mediterranean diet. With 100+ slides, handouts, and a leader guide, you have everything you need to customize your class to meet the needs of your audience or time constraints. And the beautiful, professional food photography will bring the Mediterranean diet to life!
  2. These gorgeous photos of Mediterranean-inspired foods also appear on our Mediterranean Diet Poster, making it the perfect way to publicize your class.
  3. To encourage people to sign up for and complete your class, consider holding a raffle with the winner receiving a Mediterranean Diet 9 Photo Montage Print. This is not your typical nutrition education poster! It’s a beautiful print of professional photographs featuring an assortment of Mediterranean-inspired foods.

When you’re teaching or promoting the #1 eating pattern, you can’t go wrong!

By Hollis Bass, MEd, RD, LD

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Quick & Easy Ideas for National Nutrition Month

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Did National Nutrition Month (NNM) sneak up on you this year?

Don’t worry! Here’s a quick and easy guide to NNM, including resources (some free!) you can use with messaging from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND).

Week 1: Eat a variety of nutritious foods.

  • Learn to read food labels.
  • Include healthful foods from all food groups.
  • Incorporate your favorite cultural foods and traditions.

Resources:

Week 2: See a registered dietitian.

  • Ask your doctor for a referral to an RDN.
  • Find an RDN who specializes in your unique needs.
  • Receive personalized information to meet your health goals.

Resources:

Week 3: Plan your meals and snacks.

  • Choose healthful recipes to make during the week.
  • Use a grocery list to shop for nutritious food.
  • Make healthful food and drink choices when away from home.

Resources:

Week 4: Create tasty foods at home.

  • Learn cooking and meal prep skills.
  • Try new flavors and foods from around the world.
  • Enjoy your meals with friends or family, when possible.

Resources:

By Hollis Bass, MEd, RD, LD

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Ultra-Processed Foods & the American Diet

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Americans are eating more ultra-processed foods than ever. That’s not a good thing, considering the link between highly processed foods and chronic disease, obesity, and cancer.

  • Highly processed foods account for two-thirds of the calories consumed by American youths aged 2-19. (NIH)
  • Ultra-processed foods account for 57 percent of total calories consumed by American adults. (AJCN)

We have a new poster that addresses this issue head on: Nutrient-Dense vs. Ultra-Processed Food poster. This beautiful poster uses photographs of real food to encourage people to eat more whole foods and minimally processed foods that are nutrient-dense instead of ultra-processed foods.

You can include the idea of nutrient-dense versus ultra-processed foods when you teach about most nutrition education topics. For example:

  1. MyPlate: Emphasize less processed foods for each food group.
  2. Supermarket tours and shopping tips: Explain where in the grocery store you’re most likely to find less processed foods and which aisles are danger zones for ultra-processed foods.
  3. Healthy beverages: We automatically think of sugary sodas, but diet soda is also ultra-processed.
  4. Plant-based eating: Point out that some plant-based foods are highly processed.
  5. Medical nutrition therapy: Help your clients find alternatives to any ultra-processed foods they regularly eat.

Hollis Bass, MEd, RD, LD

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How Healthy is Your Mindset?

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Having a healthy mindset is always important, but I think it’s been especially vital in helping us cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. That’s why I love this new motivational poster – Keep a Healthy Mindset.

A healthy mindset means taking a more holistic approach to the health of your body and your mind, so that you’re in a better position to overcome challenges and handle everyday adversity.

When you put the Keep a Healthy Mindset poster up in your office, hallway, classroom, or cafeteria, it will make people stop and consider their own mindset. How are they doing with the healthy habits listed? How is their mindset?

Here are some discussion points to go with the Keep a Healthy Mindset motivational poster:

  • Healthy habits foster a healthy mindset, and a healthy mindset fosters healthy habits.
    • Yes, it works both ways! You can’t have one without the other.
  • With a healthy mindset, you don’t forget about your health goals. You keep them in mind with everything you do.
    • Example: Omicron shut down your gym and you can no longer go to your favorite fitness class. With a healthy mindset, you remind yourself that exercise is important to you and you find an online class to attend.
  • With a healthy mindset, you don’t dwell on your mistakes or problems. You learn from them and move on.
    • Example: You created a meal plan for the week complete with recipes and a shopping list. It was a lot of work, but when you get to the store, key ingredients are out of stock. With a healthy mindset, you adjust quickly. Maybe you’ll just buy what you need for the next few days of meals and re-do your week’s plan when you get home.
  • Which of these healthy habits do you need to work on: drinking more water, avoiding sugar, positive self-talk, getting enough sleep, making a healthy plate, trying new healthy foods, or moving more?
    • Can you see how healthy habits (like getting enough sleep) can lead to other healthy habits (like having the energy to move more)? And all of this can then improve your mindset?

A healthy mindset is an appropriate concept to teach to adults or kids, individual clients or groups, in-person or virtually. It’s a message we all need to hear!

Hollis Bass, MEd, RD, LD

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Give Fiber a High-Five

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It’s time to give fiber a high-five. How do you do that? Take a look at our new High Five to High Fiber poster and you’ll see.

Kids and adults alike will love this colorful poster that features vibrant photos of real high fiber foods, all within the outline of a hand giving a high-five.

Why a high-five to fiber-rich foods? Consider these five points from the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans:

  1. Dietary fiber is considered a dietary component of public health concern for the general U.S. population because low intakes are associated with health concerns.
  2. Dietary patterns that do not meet recommended intakes of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains contribute to low intakes of dietary fiber.
  3. More than 90 percent of women and 97 percent of men do not meet recommended intakes for dietary fiber.
  4. Whole grains are consumed below recommended levels for children of all ages.
  5. Fruit and vegetable intake decreases as children get older and by late adolescence (18-21yrs), average fruit and vegetable consumption is about half of the recommended range of intake.

This isn’t good news for Americans, but the High Five to High Fiber poster doesn’t dwell on the negative. It stays positive, with the simple message that all the beautiful fruits, grains, nuts, vegetables, and legumes pictured contain dietary fiber.

As a bonus, the poster is also great for teaching about a plant-based diet.

So let’s all give a high-five to high fiber foods!

Hollis Bass, MEd, RD, LD

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Step Up to the Plate

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MyPlate is a valuable tool when teaching about healthy eating patterns. But what if your students or clients forget about it as soon as they walk out the door? Give them a real MyPlate to use at home!

We have a large assortment of portion-perfect plates with MyPlate printed right on them. These plates are perfect for taking the message of healthy eating from the office or classroom to the place where people eat most of their meals – the home!

Who can benefit from these MyPlate plates?

  • Dieters who become frustrated when they can’t stick to the latest fad diet. They’ll be relieved to know that healthy eating means putting something from every food group onto the plate.
  • Patients with heart disease or diabetes. Following a meal pattern is easier when you have a visual-aid like the real MyPlate.
  • People with health conditions that affect appetite. Ensure you’re getting a variety of nutrients by putting small amounts of food on the MyPlate.
  • Parents who want to teach their kids to follow a healthy eating pattern. The real MyPlate makes it fun!
  • Older folks who need a reminder to eat balanced meals. They’ll be able to see what food group is missing from their meals.

Everyone could use a real MyPlate in their kitchen cupboard!

Hollis Bass, MEd, RD, LD

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Don’t Forget About Water!

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During the winter, it’s easy to forget to drink enough water.

Our Drink Water poster is a great reminder that, while you may not be hot and thirsty like you are in the summer, the body still needs water. This poster catches people’s attention with interesting graphics and easy-to-read tidbits of information.

Here are some discussion topics to go with the Drink Water poster:

  • Discuss the facts about water and hydration. For example, our poster points out that your body loses water through breathing, sweating, and digestion, and that your body is about 60% water.
  • Brainstorm strategies to drink more water throughout the day. Special water bottles, flavored water, and taking a drink whenever you pass a water fountain are just a few ideas.
  • Review other sources of water, like unsweetened tea or coffee, skim milk, and even foods that contain lots of water (another reason to eat lots of fruits and vegetables!).
  • Explain how replacing sugary drinks with water helps you cut calories. And even people who drink lots of diet soda might want to consider switching to water.

Raise a glass of water to toast good health!

Hollis Bass, MEd, RD, LD

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Fill Your Bucket with Healthy Goals

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Help your students or clients kick off the new year with a healthy bucket list.

Use our Healthy Bucket List poster to get people thinking about the goals they want to work on over the course of a week, a month, a semester, or a year.

What are the benefits of our healthy bucket list concept?

  • Bucket lists are much more positive than new year’s resolutions.
  • Bucket list items focus on small changes that add up over time.
  • Bucket list goals are SMART – specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-based.
  • Bucket lists can be personalized – students or clients can choose how many goals as well as the time-frame.
  • Bucket lists are fun to share on social media.
  • Bucket lists are perfect for a class (touch on each item briefly) or series of classes (concentrate on one at a time).
  • Bucket lists can be created any time of year!

By Hollis Bass, MEd, RD, LD

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Focus on Fruit

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The holiday season’s bright colors fade away in January when the reality of winter sets in. Plan now to cheer up those cold, dreary days with our beautiful Focus on Fruit poster.

Focusing on fruit means adding color, flavor, fiber, nutrients, and a little sweetness to meals and snacks. Here are some ideas to help your students or clients Focus on Fruit — use them for social media, classes, or individual counseling:

  • Peel something new … try different citrus fruits every week. Introduce your family to tangerines, blood oranges, kumquats (don’t peel them!), cara cara oranges, and satsumas.
  • Bake up some comfort … make warm, healthy desserts like baked apples or pears with cinnamon.
  • Keep cans on hand … create winter fruit salads using canned fruit like peaches, pears, and mandarin oranges.
  • Toss in some color … experiment with adding frozen berries to your oatmeal – what’s your favorite combination?
  • Say aloha to smoothies … bring the tropics into your kitchen by making fruit smoothies with frozen papaya, mango, or pineapple.

Hollis Bass, MEd, RD, LD

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