Healthy Eating Resources

Description

• Kidnetic

  This website for kids tells you cool stuff about how your body works, how eating right helps you play better and feel good, and how staying active is lots of fun!En español

  Kidnetic

• Media Smart Youth

  This curriculum for an after-school health promotion program is designed to teach young people ages 11 to 13 about the complex media world around them and how it can affect their health—especially in the areas of nutrition and physical activity.

  National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)

• MyFoodAdvisor

  Registration Required

  This online tracking tool lets you track what you eat to manage your diabetes and prevent the onset of complications.  Explore nearly 5,000 foods and find recipes and healthy alternatives to improve your meals.En español

  American Diabetes Association (ADA)

• The HEALTHY Study

  This website makes publicly available materials that were used in the HEALTHY intervention program, which was designed to moderate risk factors for type 2 diabetes in adolescents including nutrition, physical education, behavior, and communications and social marketing.En español

  The HEALTHY Study

• dLife TV

  This weekly television series is dedicated to empowering the millions of Americans living with diabetes, featuring real people, real stories, celebrities, advice, and diabetes-friendly cooking.

  dLife TV

• Go Meals

  This application for the iPhone and iPad provides users with instant access to diabetes nutrition facts for making healthy eating choices.

  Go Meals

• Meals Made Easy

  This meal planning curriculum is for people living with diabetes and their support persons.  The curriculum incorporates participatory nutrition education, food preparation activities, and tasting of foods.En español

  Oregon Diabetes Program

• Rethink Your Drink

  On this website you’ll find suggestions for reducing the number of calories in what you drink and help deciphering nutrition facts labels.En español

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Food for Thought: Eating Well on a Budget

  This toolkit assists parents in helping their children make healthy food choices and start healthy habits to prevent diabetes. The materials use Sesame Street characters to teach lessons on nutrition and healthy activities.En español

  PBS

• ChooseMyPlate.gov

  ChooseMyPlate.gov from the USDA illustrates the five food groups that are the building blocks for a healthy diet and provides tools for diet/calorie tracking and information on weight management, physical activity, and healthy eating. Some materials available in Spanish.

  U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

• The National Diabetes Prevention Program Training Curriculum

  The National Diabetes Prevention Program lifestyle training curriculum is based on the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP). The lifestyle program is divided into two components: Core Curriculum & Post-Core Curriculum.

  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• SuperTracker

  Registration Required

  This online resource provides individuals with personalized nutrition and physical activity plans, a method for tracking foods and physical activities, and support to make healthier choices and stay on track.

  U.S. Department of Agriculture

• Eat More, Weigh Less?

  Eat More, Weigh Less? provides information about cutting caloric intake to successfully lose weight. Details include a list of nutritious and filling foods, healthy ingredient substitutes for recipes, and ways to cut calories without eating less.

  Centers for Disease Control (CDC)

• Fit for Two

  This booklet provides tips and ideas to improve your eating plan and become more physically active before, during, and after your pregnancy.

  Weight-Control Information Network (WIN)

• Change Your Life: “It’s so simple!”

  This guide, designed for Alaskan Natives, shares success stories about how small changes, such as increased physical activity and healthier eating, are helping to prevent or manage diabetes.

  Indian Health Service

• Protect Your Heart Against Diabetes

  This booklet and website, designed for Latino families, provides information on how to stay healthy and prevent diabetes problems, especially heart disease.

  National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)

• Prevent Type 2 Diabetes: Step by Step (Prevengamos la diabetes tipo 2. Paso a paso)

  This tip sheet helps Hispanics/Latinos at risk for type 2 diabetes move more and eat less to reduce their risk.En español

  National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

• Choose More than 50 Ways to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes

  This tip sheet helps African Americans at risk for type 2 diabetes move more and eat less to lower their risk for diabetes.

  National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

• The Road to Health Toolkit

  This toolkit provides materials to begin a community outreach program with African Americans and Hispanics/Latinos at risk for type 2 diabetes, reinforcing the message that type 2 diabetes can be delayed or prevented.  CME credit available.En español

  National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP)

• Diabetes 101: Successful Strategies of Caring for a Client with Diabetes

  These PowerPoint training seminars were created to help community health workers better serve and improve the health of native Hawaiians and other Pacific people with diabetes.

  Center for Native and Pacific Health Disparities Research

• Marathon Kids

  Registration Required

  This school- and community-based fitness program teaches kids to live an active and healthy lifestyle by running or walking 26.2 miles over six months, eating healthy food daily, and even learning to grow fruits and veggies.  Available in select cities.

  Marathon Kids

• Reducing Cardiometabolic Risk: Patient Education Toolkit

  This comprehensive kit includes reproducible patient education handouts on 29 topics related to cardiometabolic risk reduction, prediabetes, diabetes, and CVD.En español

  American Diabetes Association (ADA)

• The Weight of the Nation Film 2: Choices—Chapter 8: What Can I Do At Work to Improve My Health?

  This video uses a case study to show healthy activities and habits that can be useful in the workplace. It addresses common pitfalls at work, like unhealthy snacking or eating fast food, and how combat them.

  HBO