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Free Handouts: Enjoy the Taste of Eating Right

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Nutrition Month is right around the corner, and we’re already getting great material requests from health educators.

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Mary Therese Maslanka, RD, LDN, recently wrote to us to see if we could craft a few handouts that kids could color for fun. The handouts needed to feature the March 2014 Nutrition Month theme, “Enjoy the taste of eating right.” We were thrilled to oblige, especially when we learned that the handouts are part of a poster project for kids in kindergarten through second grade. The kids each get a handout with health messages on it, which they can then color in. What a great way to teach vital health and nutrition messages!

We decided that Mary’s idea was too wonderful not to share, and so now we’re passing the handouts on to you. Feel free to download and print as many as you’d like. And let us know if there’s anything that we can make for you.

What are you waiting for? Get the handouts now!

Enjoy the Taste of Eating Right Coloring Page TwoThere are lots of other nutrition education resources in the Nutrition Education Store. It’s ready to go for Nutrition Month — are you?

If you’re looking to brighten up your space, check out the loads of wonderful nutrition education posters. Some of the latest and greatest posters include the High Five for Fiber poster, a Fruit and Vegetable poster set, a Healthful Food Photo Collection poster, and the ever-popular Eat from the Rainbow poster.

Setting up for a wellness fair? Don’t miss the Fruit and Vegetable Salsa Wellness Fair Kit. Or perhaps a Salt Awareness Display Kit is just what you’re looking for. If you’re hosting any kind of contest or raffle at your booth, MyPlate Bookmarks, Fruit Dessert Recipe Cards, and healthful cooking utensils all make great prizes too.

It’s easier to enjoy the taste of eating right when you have recipes for healthful and balanced meals. That’s where our cookbook collection comes in. The author of these amazing healthy eating cookbooks is a professional chef who graduated 2nd in her class from culinary school. With over 20 years of recipe-testing experience and an eye for detail, Judy Doherty, PC II, has put together some truly amazing healthful cooking resources. No Battles, Better Eating is a fantastic guide that makes cooking for picky eaters a snap, and people regularly “ooh” and “aah” over the gorgeous fruit desserts in Fruit Tooth, a healthful dessert recipe collection. There’s also the top-selling Home Run Cooking and Holiday Secrets — two books that deliver smash hit meals, every time.

What are you doing for Nutrition Month?

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Free Handout: Nutrition for Kids

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It’s time for another free handout! Are you lucky or what?

This week’s free nutrition education handout is called Nutrition for Kids. It lays out simple questions for kids to ask about their meals and snacks, which combine to help them make healthful and balanced choices. This handout is a perfect accompaniment to a nutrition game or bulletin board for kids. Get it now!

Kids Nutrition Handout

Of course, if you’re looking for nutrition posters, resources for kids, or even school health education materials, the Nutrition Education Store has you covered. Check out the Free Resources for Educators section, or just browse the store. Some of the most popular health and nutrition guides for kids are featured below…

Food Label Bookmark Pack

Eat From the Rainbow Banner

MyPlate Activity Book for Kids

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Free Handout: Back to Basics with MyPlate

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It’s time to get back to basics with MyPlate. Let’s take a break from the latest updates and in-depth explorations of nutrition science and take a good look at the building blocks of health and balanced eating. Sometimes, a moment back to the basics is all you need, and this MyPlate resource is perfect for your clients. You definitely don’t want to miss this free handout.

MyPlate Basics

The free nutrition handout is the MyPlate Strategy Guide. It’s two pages long and covers all the basics of the USDA plate. We call it a strategy guide because it offers simple ways to incorporate the lessons of MyPlate into everyday life. So download it today and share it with your clients! It’s perfect for an email blast, bulletin board display, or simple handout.

(You know what goes well with this handout? MyPlate posters! And, if you’re looking for another way to approach the lessons of MyPlate, then be sure to check out the MyPlate for Kids section of the Nutrition Education Store).

MyPlate Poster

MyPlate for Kids Bulletin Board Kit

MyPlate Set of Paper Plates

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Press Release: Free Poster Program

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For Immediate Release: January 9, 2014
Media and Consumer Inquiries: 800-462-2352

Louisville, CO — Food and Health Communications, Inc has introduced a free poster program for nutrition professionals. The program offers free posters to educators who are presenting at conferences that have nutrition and food professionals in attendance. Why introduce this program now? Judy Doherty, PC II and founder of Food and Health Communications, Inc, led the development of this program in response to numerous requests for materials that could be used at state dietetic meetings and other conferences.

The educational posters are bright, clear, and positive, with simple health messages that are appealing and easy to understand. All of the posters are original and none feature any industry advertising of any kind. The information presented on the posters is up-to-date and based on the latest scientific evidence.

There are some restrictions to the new poster program. For example, in order to receive a free poster to use at a conference, the audience for the meeting must be food and health professionals. There must also be at least 30 attendees. People who are interested in receiving a free poster need only fill out a simple form with their conference information in order to be considered for the free nutrition poster program.

For more information, visit http://.nutritioneducationstore.com. People can learn more about the poster program directly at http://nutritioneducationstore.com/pages/poster.html.

Here are a few of the latest educational posters from Food and Health Communications, Inc.

9 Ways to Lower LDL Cholesterol Poster

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Announcement: Updated Heart Month Materials

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For Immediate Release: January 8, 2014
Media and Consumer Inquiries: 800-462-2352

Louisville, CO — Food and Health Communications, Inc has released a series of new nutrition education materials in the Nutrition Education Store. These new materials promote updated diet and heart disease health information, just in time for Heart Month.

The diet and cholesterol education resources cover the updated cardiovascular disease care guidelines from the the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology. The blood pressure education materials feature the new guidelines from the Journal of the American Medical Association and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s JNC 8. The new blood pressure poster features the DASH diet as a healthful approach to reduce heart disease risk. The materials also discuss heart disease, lifestyle risk factors for heart disease, diet and exercise routines to adopt in order to improve health, the long-term impact of heart disease, the basics of cholesterol, a review of body mass index, a closer look at the role of excess salt in the development of heart disease, an exploration of the importance of fruits and vegetables to good health, and much more.

The launch of these resources was prompted by Judy Doherty, PC II, who founded Food and Health Communications, Inc in order to provide necessary resources to busy health educators. To further that end, the heart education materials take a wide range of formats that will appeal to a broad audience. Each one features tools for a few different learning styles, ensuring that there is something for everyone. The full complement of posters, presentations, handouts, tearpads, clipart, worksheets, recipes, bulletin board kits, banners, and tabletop displays are all available at nutritioneducationstore.com.

For more information, visit www.foodandhealth.com or www.nutritioneducationstore.com.

The updated heart materials include…

Blood Pressure Poster

DASH and Your Heart Brochure

 

Heart-Healthy Cooking Presentation

 

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Presentation Idea: DASH to a Healthy Heart

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Did you know the DASH diet won first place in a recent USA Today Diet Survey? Stay tuned for a post coming up about the contest and the DASH Diet.

Trying to teach the basics of the DASH diet and promote heart health? Do this great activity, which is perfect for a class session or a break during a heart health presentation.

Assemble a display of elements of the DASH diet. This should include pictures, models, or empty containers of healthful foods. Add some exercise equipment (to represent the importance of physical activity), and a scale or tape measure (to represent weight management). Arrange these items into your display before participants arrive.

Once everyone has made it to the classroom, discuss the display:

  • What is included?
  • What is absent?
  • Why?

Ask participants to brainstorm the link between all these items. After the discussion, reveal that these are all key elements of the DASH diet, which was developed to help fight high blood pressure.

DASH to Better Blood PressurePass out copies of the Make the DASH for Heart Health (available in the store). Have students read through it. Discuss its main points as a group, then have participants list the steps they are going to take in order to reduce their high blood pressure (or their high blood pressure risk, if they currently don’t have high blood pressure) on the back of the page. These can remain private or be shared with the class, depending on your group’s comfort level.

No handout? No problem! Have students extrapolate from the display and discussion to create a guide to the DASH diet in their notes.

If you need decorations for your classroom or office, have the participants make and illustrate their own handouts, then turn them in to you. You can make the DASH handout design into a contest and display the winners, or just photocopy the best ones for distribution to the rest of the class.

If you have access to computers or smartphones, participants could also do further research on the DASH diet with those, incorporating what they find into their handouts.

This presentation idea is an excerpt from the educational program, The 12 Lessons of Diabetes. This program follows the same format as the other fantastic 12 Lessons packages and is chock-full of insight from a wide variety of health and nutrition professionals. If you are interested in Diet and Heart Disease, see the 6 Lessons of Heart Health Program

View all DASH Diet Education Materials here.

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Free Handout: Substitute Your Way to Heart Health

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It’s time for another free nutrition handout! This week’s installment is all about simple substitutions that your clients can make in order to improve their heart health. There’s a preview below, and, if you like what you see, scroll down for a link to download the PDF for free.

Choose OatmealBaked Goods

  • Choose oatmeal or another whole grain cereal instead of baked goods. Top your oatmeal with fruit and skim milk.
  • You can also try 100% whole wheat breads instead of sugary baked goods. After all, MyPlate does insist that people should make at least half of all the grains they eat whole grains, every day.

Butter

  • Try trans-fat-free light tub margarine instead of butter.

Cheese

  • Substitute fat-free ricotta for regular or reduced-fat ricotta.
  • Use a little bit of cheese that has a strong flavor instead of a lot of cheese that has a mild flavor. For example, try Swiss, Parmesan, or cheddar cheese as flavoring agents and keep the amount you use in the dish on the small side.

Egg Yolks

  • Use egg whites instead of whole eggs.
  • Try a nonfat egg substitute.

To see the whole handout, download it today!

If you’re looking for more nutrition education resources or items that address the diet and heart health education theme, check out the amazing featured products below…

Heart Health Poster Value Set

Lighten Up Your Cooking Handout

Lower Your Heart Attack Risk Score Heart Health Brochure

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Free Nutrition Education Resources

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For Immediate Release: December 18, 2013
Media and Consumer Inquiries: 800-462-2352

Louisville, CO — Food and Health Communications, Inc has just launched a new free nutrition education resources center. This hub of free nutrition education resources is filled with the latest nutrition quizzes, nutrition icebreakers, cooking clipart, free nutrition handouts, and health statistics to help health and nutrition educators prepare for an evidence-based nutrition class that is engaging, effective and up to date. All of the nutrition resources are complimentary and geared toward aiding nutrition educators as they work with their clients.

The focus of the nutrition resource center is broad, and it covers many topics. Features include tools for teaching people about diabetes, heart health, weight control, nutrition basics, cooking, and more. There are pre and post quizzes to gauge learning needs and success. And there are free nutrition class certificates to award people who pass classes. Jokes and quotes provide great ice breakers. And nutrition and cooking clip art helps make handouts and announcements visually inviting. The content is always changing and is kept continually updated with the latest scientific research.

The launch of this new center was prompted by Judy Doherty, PC II, who founded Food and Health Communications, Inc in order to provide necessary resources to busy health educators. The goal of the educator’s resource center is to offer some of the most popular health and nutrition materials to people who will use them to improve the lives of their clients.

For more information, visit www.nutritioneducationstore.com and click the link for the Nutrition Education Resource Center on the top left. People can access the resource center directly at http://nutritioneducationstore.com/pages/Free_Resources.html.

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Stop Burning the Midnight Oil!

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Newsletters have managed to stay relevant, engaging, and creative since their humble beginnings in the 1500s. But do you have the resources you need in order to craft the best nutrition newsletters for your audience? Can you fit one more thing into your day?

Now you can have your cake and eat it too.

Instead of spending time creating and curating your very own nutrition newsletter, let us do it for you! Our team of dietitians, doctors, chefs, editors, and researchers comes together to craft the best resources in town. Everything is based solely on scientific evidence and it’s all put into clear and positive messages that are easy to understand.

With a team like that, why burn the midnight oil? These specialty newsletter services will help you give your clients the tools they need to succeed. And when they’re achieving their goals, you’ll look great. Plus, with us taking care of your newsletters, you’ll have more time to develop strategies to grow your customer base.

Did we mention that you’d still have total editorial control? With the custom newsletter program, you can always edit and add to the newsletters as you see fit, making them your own. This will take a fraction of the time you would need to devote to making the whole thing from scratch.

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Already working on your own materials and just need a little help with articles and handouts? Copy from us! That’s right — you can get your own license to copy our our materials by becoming a member of the  Communicating Food for Health Newsletter and Membership Program. With this program, you’ll receive a newsletter with the latest research and professional updates. You’ll also get lots of handouts and articles that you can use in all your communications. There is a whole library that you can draw from in order to get exactly the materials you need.

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For a limited time, we’re making the January 2014 edition of our award-winning newsletter from our private member library available to everyone. Download your copy today!

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