Healthy Bodies Come in All Sizes

Objective: The display supports healthy choices, including food choices, the client will be encouraged to make through various accompanying materials. The display is intended to reinforce a positive weight, activity, or eating message.

Appropriate Occasion: Anytime, National Nutrition Month, January (as a New You for the Year Resolutions, or in lieu of weight reduction display

Appropriate Audience: Teens, adults and older adults

Additional Props Needed for Display: This display is designed to be very flexible. You may want to display the MyPyramid model or display with it, some activity props like hand weights, jump rope, etc. Food models and place setting of a healthy, attractive meal would be great, as would picnic props--healthy meals with activity built in.

Handouts:

Beyond Diets - Available through Park-Nicollet HealthSource 1-800-372-7776

Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2005

Eating Well, Living Well Workbook by Glenn Gaesser & Karen Kratina. Pub date 2000. Available through the Wheat Foods Council. Contains educator's materials for use with general audiences.

Steps to a Healthier You: A Summary of the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans and the Food Guide/MyPyramid. A 8-page fact sheet summarizing the 2005 Dietary Guidelines and the Food Guide/MyPyramid, Mary Meck Higgins, PhD, LD, RD, CDE.

Further information: The pamphlet used in development of this display is Living in a Healthy Body, a visually appealing 15-page pamphlet written in consumer-friendly language promoting lifestyle change rather than weight loss. Krames Communications: 1-800-333-3032. It provides excellent information for the educator's own knowledge, and for sharing with audience.