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 Right In No Time
Bonnie Keating
This handout informs the audience on how to eat a healthier diet by planning out meals a week in advance and setting aside time to shop and cook in order to avoid eating convenience food. There are time saving tips for cooking kitchen to help make meal prepping less labor intensive. Also, recommendation for the type of foods to meal prep is provided.
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Immune-Boosting Nutritional Strategies For Collegiate Athlete: How-To Pamphlet
Lyndie Kelley
This handout is designed to inform collegiate athletes about various nutritional strategies that can provide a positive boost to their immune system during their competitive season. Collegiate athletes are a population that tends to experience high levels of both acute and chronic illness, especially upper respiratory-related infections due to poor nutrition, poor rest and recovery and tendencies to over-train. The amount of high-intensity training sessions that occur in succession can lead to chronic immunosuppression in collegiate athletes. Chronic or acute Illness can lead to missed training or competitive opportunities and can negatively influence a student-athlete’s success and overall health.
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A Teenager’s Guide To Healthy Living
Elizabeth Konidis
An educational hand out targeting teenagers that struggle with weight management who are overweight or obese. The handout contains information on obesity statistics of the United States along with the potential causes behind this epidemic. Various simple tips to guide these adolescents on healthy food choices and physical lifestyle changes are provided.
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How To Prevent Childhood Obesity
Uyen Lam
This handout explains what causes childhood obesity, the effective solutions, and how to prevent it.
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Protein And Weight Management
Patrick Langley
The handout represents 5 ways to manage your weight via appropriate protein intake, and 10 healthy and lean sources of protein.
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Why To Target Young Families On Social Media To Increase CSA Shares
Nicole Lindsay
This infographic shows the key reasons why it would be beneficial for a local farm to target social media campaigns for an audience of young families. Business and financial benefits are explained, in addition to public health and nutrition improvements for young children and families.
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Healthy Alternatives For Your Child
Katrina Lobs
This pamphlet informs parents of children, roughly aged 6-10, about healthy defaults. It includes statistics, meal prep suggestions, how to make meal time fun, and tips on how to incorporate healthy defaults into all parts of a child’s life.
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How To Ditch The Diet For A Lifestyle: A Balanced Eating Approach For Women
Malena Martinez
The brochure was developed for obese and overweight women who have regained weight after dieting (“yo-yo” dieting). It examines the health risks and issues associated with dieting amongst American women. A balanced eating approach is promoted as it can be used to reach or manage a healthy weight and is recommended for women by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Healthy defaults are included with meal preparation, physical activity, and other adaptable habits as well as nutrition recommendations to help women lead a healthy lifestyle.
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Diabetes Prevention Is In Your Hands: Steps Families Can Take To Prevent Diabetes Now!
Martha Medrano
This pamphlet informs the reader of basic steps to take to begin lifestyle changes to prevent diabetes. It takes on a whole family approach therefore parents may use for children at risk for diabetes type 2. In the back, this pamphlet provides the contact information for a dietitian in their clinic.
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What Can You Do To Change The Course Of Your Life?
Stephanie Menagh
This handout provides educational information regarding childhood obesity and lifestyle changes that can be used to help with weight management.
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Making Healthy Eating An Easy Part Of Your Child’s Life
Rebecca Modesitt
The handout informs the audience on strategies for how to make healthy eating an easy or default choice for young children. It breaks these strategies down in order to make implementation easier for parents.
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Creating Healthy Eating Habits: Easy Strategies To Lose Weight & Make Healthy Nutrition Changes
Monica Moore
This pamphlet discusses healthy defaults, encourages behavior change, and offers suggestions of how to make healthy changes in different settings in daily life to improve nutrition choices and weight loss success.
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Talking To Teens About Diet
Candace Nelson
This handout empowers parents to help their teens with obesity through a structured weight management treatment plan.
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Cut The Sugar And Drink More Water: Reduce Your Risk Of Health Issues By Using Healthy Defaults
Robert Powell
This handout informs the audience about the value of water over sugar-sweetened beverages. And provides tips and resources that can be used to increase water and water-like consumption. Also included is information regarding the amount of water that should be consumed each day.
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Allergen Free Party
Amber Rains
This infographic informs the audience about children and food allergies. Often times, parents of children with food allergies are educated about the dangers of exposure to food allergens, this infographic is intended to create awareness in all people who may come in contact with a child with food allergies.
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The Fight Against Overweight And Obesity Among Adolescents
Jordan Reichel
The purpose of this handout is to use evidence-based research to educate the adolescents population about the growing problem of overweight and obesity among youth in this age group. This handout describes the criteria for being considered overweight or obese during adolescence. Possible risk factors for adolescent overweight and obesity are identified. The handout discusses the burden of disease and the potential consequences associated with being overweight or obese as an adolescent. Behavior modification strategies for preventing or treating overweight and obesity in adolescent’s are also described.
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Nutrition Education For The Dental Hygienist: An Intervention Using An Online Curriculum
Lindsy Rhead
This submission includes an abstract and poster for a proposed nutrition education intervention for dental hygiene students. The purpose of this project is to evaluate the efficacy of an online applied nutrition course in improving nutrition knowledge and confidence levels in dental hygienists.
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Native Health Pros
Holli Rizk
The Native Health Pros campaign is designed to raise awareness of healthy food behaviors among working millennials in Orange County, California. This generation is notoriously distrustful of health information, though they place high value their well-being. Millennial professionals are also much less likely to prepare meals, leaving them open to serious nutritional deficiencies. Native Health Pros is designed to meet these workers where they are in order to deliver science-based nutrition advice in a beautiful, easily-digested format.
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What Are The Effects Of Nutrition Counseling Intervention On The Renal Labs (BUN, Creatinine, GFR) Among Mexican American Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Stages 3-4 At 1 Month, 3 Months And 6 Months?
Laura Rosales
This is a quantitative quasi-experiment that will use purposive sampling to recruit the Mexican American adult patients diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) in Stages 1 and 2 and have not been diagnosed with Diabetes or received nutrition intervention for CKD. The purpose of this research is to identify at what stage nutrition counseling has a significant result on renal labs from patients diagnosed with CKD. The data from this research would provide information needed for medical providers to use in their treatment course for their patients with CKD.
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Obesity And Associated Disease Prevention
Caitlin Roth
This handout informs the intended audience about obesity and ways to utilize healthy defaults to help prevent chronic diseases including hypertension, type II diabetes, as well as other chronic diseases or to prevent the worsening of other chronic diseases.
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Dietary Supplement Roadmap
Debbie Safra
Dietary supplements are meant to aid in providing additional vitamins, minerals, fiber, amino acids, herbs and botanicals to ones’ diet that may be deficient. These supplements are available in various forms and advertise to promote various health claims. However, often there is little research to support these health claims. Supplement use date back as far as 1920 when cod liver oil was introduced as a food nutrient. The first known multivitamin/multimineral /Phytonutrient supplement called Nutrilite was introduced in the United States in 1934.1 With the growth of dietary supplement manufacturing the possibility of misbranding, and false product claims required standardized regulations. These regulations became necessary to protect the public from undue harm. In 1938 the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) was introduced. 2 Over time the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) became involved to regulate labeling, good manufacturing policies, and ingredients all intended to protect the public from harm and false health claims.
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It Begins With You, Pre-Diabetes Prevention Creating Life Long Healthy Habits
Debbie Safra
When adults are faced with choices they often choose what is familiar or their go-to favorite. This brochure is intended to educate and provide helpful alternatives to change a habit to help prevent metabolic disorders such as; pre-diabetes and diabetes.
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Adolescent Weight Management On A Budget
Nicole Sherrard
It is developed in short, easy to read segments. Topics included are family involvement in meal preparation, what to do and not to do for optimal nutrition status, introduction to MyPlate by the United States Department of Agriculture and financial resources to insure adolescents are properly nourished.
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Nutrition Campaign
Brittany Taylor-Whitmer
This infographic outlines the need for a campaign to educate the public (primarily 25-35 year old) on nutrition fear mongering and how to recognize it.
