Nutrition Resources

• Circle of Change - Guiding Others Toward Healthy Living: (8.5x11, 3-ring binder). The goal of this guide is to assist health educators implement successful nutrition education interventions especially in tribal settings. Originally developed for BFNEP coordinators using the Lifestyle Balance curriculum, the guide can serve any instructor responsible for adult education programs.
  Target Audience: Health educators working with adults.
  Key Messages: How to recruit and retain participants, how to work with large versus small groups, what to do with difficult or disruptive participants, stages of change, learning styles, and more
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• Energize Your Life Materials: Download colorful posters and recipe flyers. Twenty different posters (11" x 14") encourage people to add color to their life with fruits and vegetables, to be active by playing with family and friends or moving to the music, and to start their day by powering up with breakfast. Four recipe flyers have tips for healthy eating and active lifestyles.
   
• Promising Practices in Nutrition Education, Choosing the Right Nutrition Education Curriculum for Your Program: (PDF 4.3MB) This is a collection of research-based curricula suitable for SNAP-Ed projects. Curricula are cataloged by target audience . A checklist tool from current nutrition education best practices is included to help you select additional curricula.
   

• USDA Recipe Finder: Search for low-cost, healthy and easy to prepare recipes for use in nutrition education activities.

• USDA Commodity Fact Sheets: with recipes.

• NIH Senior Health: The National Institutes of Health's web site for seniors and their care givers.

• The Food and Nutrition Information Center (FNIC) Resource List: A quick guide to materials that address nutrition education for the non-institutionalized elderly. Scroll down to Table of Contents and click Curricula to view a variety of senior curriculums.

• The  Latino Nutrition webpage is a source of recipes, newsletters, and materials on healthy Latino eating.

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• My Pyramid

• Food Stamp Nutrition Connection

• United States Department of Agriculture Food Assistance Programs

• American Dietetic Association

• 2005 Dietary Guidelines Toolkit for Professionals

• SNE MyPyramid e-Catalog: Society for Nutrition Education (SNE) has developed a new web site to help nutrition educators find and market nutrition education materials promoting MyPyramid and the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. and is a searchable listing of peer-reviewed resources.

• Three Simple Steps handout: (PDF, 560KB) Eating fruits and vegetables is simple and healthy. Use these three steps to get the amounts that are right for you. This handout is designed to be easy to read. Budget-friendly tips are also included. Also available in a text-only version (PDF, 47KB).

• Portion Distortion: Learn serving size information

• Make Your Calories Count: is an interactive learning program that provides consumers with information to help plan a healthful diet while managing calorie intake. This program will show consumers how, in part, by explaining what serving sizes, percentages, and daily values mean and how to use them. This program is available for online use and in a downloadable format.

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• This Nutrition Facts Label brochure describes how consumers can use the label as they shop and plan meals.

• CDC fruit and vegetable information: This is the successor to the "5 A Day" site, and contains updated dietary guidelines, recipes and tips for healthy eating.

• Fruits & Veggies More Matters: A website created by the "Produce for Better Health Foundation" containing information on nutrition, meal planning, shopping tips and healthy resources.

• My Pyramid tip sheets on using fresh fruits and vegetables

• ADA Complete Food and Nutrition Guide

• Food & Nutrition Information Center

• Creating a picture recipe tool: Tools for creating picture recipes.

• WIC Works Resource System

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