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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Eat Healthy, Lose Weight, Exercise, Change Your Lifestyle… And Have FUN While Doing It!
Yasmine Abuzeid
This handout depicts four fun ways to help manage obesity, tips on eating healthy, losing weight, exercising and changing lifestyle. All information is based on evidence-based research on these topics.
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Prevent Heart Disease With A Whole Food Plant-Based Lifestyle
Allen Appell
This pamphlet informs the audience about the importance of adopting a Whole Food Plant-Based lifestyle for optimum heart health. It discusses common concerns about plant-based diets such as the source of protein, how plant-based food provides ample antioxidants and fiber, and that heart disease can be reversed. Recommendations are offered for specific types of food to consume, where to source recipes and nutrition information.
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Start Today! Tips To Start Living Your Best Life
Jessica Atlee
This handout depicts healthy eating and active living suggestions, including water consumption, sleep habits, goal-setting, appropriate snacking, best practices while cooking, and suggestions for mealtimes.
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A Healthy Heart & Cholesterol
Yasmin Barakat
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.
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How To Be A Healthy You
Sean Cairns
The handout identifies what being overweight or obese is, what a healthy weight looks like, steps to get to a healthy weight, and how to maintain that healthy weight. The handout also gives additional resources on food lists, food budgeting tips, food assistance programs, website/app that will help with grocery shopping, budgeting, recipes and cooking techniques.
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How To Reverse Type 2 Diabetes By Changing To A Low-Fat, Plant-Based, Whole Foods Diet
Manon Barron Carbajal
Diabetes is on the rise across the globe, especially within the aging sector. Changing unhealthy diet and lifestyle “default” habits are an effective means of preventing, managing, and even reversing type 2 diabetes. The current trend in clinical nutrition recommendations involve calorie-counting, portion control, and carbohydrate restriction, including those found in fruits and vegetables. However, after assessing diets from many different populations, worldwide, scientific research studies have determined that... Read More
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School Lunch Standard Adherence And The Effects On Body Mass Index For 3rd-5th Grade Elementary School Children
Cliff Coggins
This submission is an IRB Protocol design to assess the effect of the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program in accordance with the Nation School Lunch Program on 3rd-5th grade children from two separate schools. The study will measure fruit and vegetable intake as well as the correlation with BMI z-score over the course of the SY 18-19.
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Easy Default Food Switches For Adults Trying To Reduce Their Obesity; An Interactive Experience
Christa Corgatelli
This pamphlet provides an interactive learning experience for obese adults looking for new ideas to reduce their obesity. It defines and provides examples of foods, location, and situational defaults. The interactive questionnaire helps the reader work through current defaults and demonstrates how to make healthier food choices with given options. Tips are provided to help the reader to handle the location and situational defaults. Finally, how to make these... Read More
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Healthy Habits
Rachael Costello
An educational handout designed for families attempting to make healthy changes in their lifestyle. It includes easy to follow tips and ideas to make lifestyle changes that will impact the health of all family members. This includes nutrition and physical activity. There is a recipe included as an example and several web resources for further information.
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Adjusting To Life With Heart Disease?
Lauren Deipolyi
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.
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Jamaican Food and Culture Fact Sheet
Lauren Deipolyi
This handout seeks to inform people about Jamaican food traditions. Different Jamaican dishes, cultural practices and health beliefs are explained.
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Creating Success With Prediabetes: A Healthy Defaults Guide
Sarah E. Deitz
This pamphlet helps to inform adult individuals who are pre-diabetic on how they can lower their risk for the future development of diabetes are included. Action steps, healthy defaults, and the risk factors for pre-diabetes/diabetes. It is not solely intended for those who are pre-diabetic; it could also be helpful for those who are overweight or obese with or without a family history of diabetes. The pamphlet's intended use... Read More
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The Food And Culture Of Haiti
Sarah E. Deitz
This fact sheet allows the reader to learn about the staple foods and dishes of Haitian cuisine. Trends and health beliefs of the Haitian culture are briefly discussed and defined. The information is intended to help nutrition professionals have a better understanding of Haitian people by learning about their food and nutrition customs.
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Work Well Being
Kerry Donnelly
This handout intends to educate individuals on how to form a workplace environment supportive of healthy dietary behaviors. It discusses the concept of healthy defaults and how to implement this approach into personal and professional lives. Topics covered include break time routines, healthy snacking and the obesogenic environment.
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Mexican Food and Culture Fact Sheet
Mallory Doolan
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.
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What Is Childhood Obesity?
Caitlyn Garmer
This handout defines what childhood obesity is, the causes behind it, the risk factors for childhood obesity, and what parents can do to help children who are obese. Included in the handout is a diagram on how to prevent childhood obesity and additional resources to aide a child who might be obese.
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Key Assessment Part 2 Educational Handout
Karl Granskog
This is an educational handout on childhood obesity. It delineates the increase and common complications in childhood and adolescent obesity. It informs the reader of the linkage between childhood and adolescent obesity and: hypertension/heart remodeling, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and prediabetes/diabetes. It informs the reader of these undesired co-morbidities and the increased unfavorable cardiovascular outcomes in the present and in adulthood. It provides information on actions the reader can... Read More
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How To Raise Healthy Eaters
Marina Grant
This pamphlet provides the information about the importance of heathy eating and about diet-related diseases. It is intended for parents and caregivers of younger children. The pamphlet informs them about different parenting styles and delivers some basic recommendations about optimal diet. It will also help parents and caregivers to form healthy eating habits for their children. The pamphlet provides healthy snack ideas and detailed tips that parents and caregivers... Read More
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Tips For Teens - Achieving And Maintaining A Normal Body Weight
Jessica Grattan
This educational handout is designed to inform and educate a general population of U.S. teens on the benefits of eating well and maintaining a healthy body weight. Five simple tips are included, along with the associated benefits of following the recommended steps.
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What The Health Are You Talking About?
Andrea Hall
This handout conveys bullet points regarding how a teenager can make healthy eating and lifestyle choices. It provides further resources for the client to access.
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Simple Health Snacks For Parents & Kids
Hannah Harvey
This pamphlet touches upon risk factors of childhood obesity and obesity in general, and provides lifestyle recommendations for reducing risk and improving health. It includes suggestions for behavior and good habits that can be implemented in daily life to improve health and well-being, as well as various food type and meal suggestions.
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Eating Right For A Healthy Smile!
K. Michelle Head
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... Read More
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How To Manage Blood Sugar; Establishing Healthy Defaults
Julie Hiller
The pamphlet educates the audience on strategies to use in managing blood sugar through diet and exercise. This handout introduces the concept of healthy defaults. Suggestions are made on how to implement food and exercise healthy defaults into daily life. Education is also provided on the glycemic index (GI) and low GI foods are suggested.
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Having Fun And Getting Healthy
Whitney Huff
This handout is geared toward children and families on how to create healthy defaults in order to help their children and other family members get healthy.
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Setting Your Health Up For Success- A Guide For The New Young Professional
Rebecca Iwata
This handout contains helpful tips for young professionals that have recently graduated from college. It explains how to get started with meal planning, scheduling exercise into the week, and how stocking your fridge can help increase the likelihood of making healthy choices.