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Diabetes Display with MyPlate
November is American Diabetes Month, and it?s a great time to raise awareness. Try this interactive display idea to promote healthful habits?
Model Cholesterol Damage in Your Hallway
Sometimes the best way to help your clients internalize key health lessons is to have them act them out. For this activity, you will need a free doorway in a low-traffic area, with available space on either side of the door. The door to your office or conference room may be perfect. You will also need some balloons, tape, and 4 different colors of bandanas (or another tool that you can use to mark participants into different teams).
Offer a Fruit and Vegetable Challenge!
Finding and trying new fruits and vegetables can be a bit daunting. Help make exploring healthful flavors more fun with a quick and easy contest!
Cooking Demonstration Tips
I recently began teaching an advanced pastry class for the culinary art students at Johnson and Wales Denver (JWU). I am totally loving it, but the topic and group posed a few new challenges to my usual cooking demonstration approach...
The Lowdown on Energy Drinks
It seems like we?ll eat or drink anything that will increase our lagging energy levels. Put the phrase ?boost your energy? on a food or beverage, and we think, ?Hey, I need that!?But do you really? Let's take a closer look at energy drinks...
Banish the Belly Bulge
With 2 out of 3 adults (1 out of 3 children) in America who are overweight and/or obese, bulging bellies seem to be a fact of life.
Nutrition Science or Pseudoscience?
Nutrition science can be confusing for people with little or no training in nutrition science particularly those who also have little understanding of human physiology. One reason for such confusion can be often found in the often distorted messages from would be nutrition ?experts? who are in reality more nutritional gurus.
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