Students working towards their Master of Science in Applied Nutrition at UNE complete coursework including the development of educational and informational materials for both peers and patients.
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Are Hormones Impacting Weight Gain?
Brannon Blount
A brochure explaining hormones and weight gain are directly related.
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Fresh Fruit and Veggies for Correctional Facilities
Katie Melara
This handout depicts the benefits of fresh fruit and vegetables for incarcerated people and their communities, with proposed solutions for increasing fresh produce in correctional facilities. The content of this handout is based primarily on information Eating Behind Bars: Ending the Hidden Punishment of Food in Prison Report by Impact Justice.
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How Hormones Control Your Weight
University of New England
A brochure that educates the general pubic on how hormones regulate body weight.
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Know Your Nutrition
Melinda Arcara
This educational handout helps patients become aware of total calories, key macronutrients and there AMDR ranges. Facts that include recommended quantities of saturated fats and sodium as well as healthy lifestyle and food recommendations.
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Take Charge
Mollie Bartles
This educational handout highlights the benefits of a healthier lifestyle and how it is possible to eat on a budget.
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Creating a Healthy Home
Sydney Callahan
This pamphlet explains the concept of healthy defaults, why they are important, and how the audience can implement them at home to improve the diets of their children.
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Live Your Best Life: Knock Out Prediabetes with Healthy Defaults
Micheline Cormier
This how-to pamphlet informs readers on healthy defaults and their role in fostering an environment conducive to successful behavior change in the prediabetic population. It defines prediabetes and healthy defaults and provides prediabetes risk factors. Tips are also suggested to apply food and lifestyle healthy defaults in everyday situations at home or work. Finally, readers are encouraged to personalize healthy defaults to make them permanent and live their best life.
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Want to be a Sugar Detective?!
Janie McAmis
An educational handout for an adolescent confused about the difference of added sugars and natural sugars. The purpose of this handout is to help educate an adolescent about added sugar and natural sugars found in common food items. The difference between added sugar and natural sugar is addressed. The handout explains where this information can be located on a nutritional label. This educational handout also addresses risks seen with excessive added sugar intake in recent research for the adolescent population
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Healthy Defaults for Children
Tara Murray
This handout informs children and their parents on what a healthy default is and some tips on achieving it. Kid friendly recipes are included to try as well.
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Healthy Your Way
Susan Newkirk
This handout depicts four lifestyle habits to integrate into everyday life to reduce your risk obesity and chronic diseases.
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Maximizing ROI on Executive Health
John Romanelli
This educational brochure provides a general overview of what healthy defaults are and how they can be applied in a corporate setting to improve dietary intake and increase physical activity. Specific examples are given as well as the expected benefits that both the individual and the organization can expect to achieve.
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Adolescent Obesity Case Study
Rachel Salvitti
This handout shows some easy to digest information regarding adolescent obesity. It is targeted towards girls and suggests what they should or should not include in their daily habits to reduce their risk or continued development of obesity. The information presented is based off of MyPlate recommendations, as well as other studies of dietary interventions to improve health of adolescents suffering from or at risk of obesity.
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Adolescent Obesity: Causes, Risks and Interventions
University of New England Applied Nutrition Program
To provide concise information about adolescent obesity to include the common causes, risk factors, immediate and long-term health risks. This handout also strives to deliver basic nutrition education and easy-to-access resources for more information.
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Everyday Tips to Achieve a Healthy Weight
University of New England Applied Nutrition Program
This handout depicts six evidence-based practices to help overweight and obese individuals achieve a healthy weight. These tips are meant to be easily integrated into everyday life, and are backed by the CDC, USDA, and multiple scientific studies and reviews.
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Your Health, Your Choice: Pre-Teens Guide for a Healthy Life
University of New England Applied Nutrition Program
This handout informs pre-teens and their families on how to understand individual food choices and create healthier defaults for optimal nutrition
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How to Make Healthy Easting Easy
Morgan Frederick
This handout is meant to educate the audience on how to use healthy defaults to make healthy eating easier. It gives techniques for planning and prepping simple healthy meals and snacks.
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Creating a Healthy Home Environment for Good Nutrition
Victoria Kleyner
This is a brochure which gives tools to people who are trying to avoid dining out in order to improve their nutrition by eating at home. However, they need more information and guidance as to how to do this successfully. Obesity is not only a product of eating at restaurants outside of the house, but it is also caused by eating habits throughout the day at home, which stem from grocery shopping practices. The information provided creates awareness that well-intentioned home eating habits can still be damaging to health, and offer advice as to how somebody can set up their default home environment to facilitate healthier and more nutritious eating habits. In addition, tips are provided about how to stick to one’s shopping list of planned and healthy foods by creating awareness of advertising in grocery stores. It prompts customers into impulse purchasing foods they did not plan buy, which typically lack nutritional value and are higher in fat and sugars.
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The Metabolic Syndrome, are you at risk? Lifestyle changes you can make today
Scarlet Louis-Jean
The prevalence of the metabolic syndrome is globally increasing at epidemic proportions. The metabolic syndrome is considered one of the more common non-communicable diseases, reportedly three times more common than diabetes. In the US alone, approximately 34 per cent of Americans were diagnosed with the condition during the 2007-2012 era, however, the percentage of afflicted adults continues to grow. The cause of this condition has been associated with genetic predisposition, epigenetic alterations, nutritional choices, and physical inactivity. Although this list is non-exhaustive, the latter two causes are often thought to be due to the adoption of westernized approaches to diet and exercise. When these lifestyle choices are counteracted with health promoting alternatives, research has shown it can lead to the amelioration of the metabolic syndrome. Herein, this pamphlet attempts to encourage lifestyle changes, known as healthy defaults, to help individuals reverse or prevent the cardiometabolic risk factors associated with the diagnosis of the metabolic syndrome.
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Indian Food and Culture Fact Sheet
Brooke Robinson
This is an informational handout covering the traditional cuisines of various regions throughout the Indian subcontinent. Religious influences regarding food choice and fasting, traditional health beliefs, eating patterns and etiquette, and common health issues experienced by the Indian population who acculturate to American culture are discussed.
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Healthy Eating for Preschoolers
Amanda Soleim
This brochure educates parents on how to encourage healthy eating habits in their preschoolers to prevent childhood obesity. It provides ideas on how parents can adjust their normal routines or environments in order to make healthy choices easier and more convenient.
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Nutrition ABCs for Healthy Families
Lauren K. Sullivan
This pamphlet informs the audience of basic nutrition principles for maintaining a healthy weight using healthy diet patterns and increased activity recommendations. It encourages healthful eating, regular activity and utilizing resources as a part of a healthy family lifestyle
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An Evolution of Nutrition Labeling: Laws, amendments, and historical landmarks
University of New England Applied Nutrition Program
This infographic shows the history of food and supplement labeling laws, amendments, and historical landmarks in the US from 1906 to 2016.
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Diabetes Management
University of New England Applied Nutrition Program
This educational pamphlet provides information on diabetes management for young adults with type 2 diabetes. Healthy habits and environmental defaults are reviewed. Tips are provided to overcome unhealthy default behaviors through lifestyle improvements.
