Bringing Nutrition and Food Alive Tales of Life-Skills Education

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Bringing Nutrition and Food AliveTales of
Life-Skills Education

• Judy Dodd, MS, RD, LD
• Adjunct Assistant Professor
• Sports Medicine and Nutrition
• University of Pittsburgh
• jdodd_at_pitt.edu
• Giant Eagle Community Relations Corporate
  Nutritionist

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Objectives

• Identify at least 4 trends and 4 issues that are
  shaping todays food and lifestyle choices.
• Explore strategies for translating science to
  food choices and applications.
• Identify resources that assist in bringing food
  and nutrition alive in the classroom (or
  community setting).

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Bringing Food and Nutrition Alive

• What can you do?
• Stay current (knowledge and tools) and know
  your boundaries.
• Build a network of credible sources.
• Provide guided practice.
• Involve generations.
• Focus on a wellness oriented lifestyle.
• Emphasize family and personal management skills.
• Instill and reinforce the idea of personal
  responsibility for positive food choices
• Focus on tools and life skills

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Bringing Food and Nutrition Alive

• What can you do?
• Teach - Cooking, shopping, storing food with
  health, resource management, sustainability, and
  value in mind.
• Mentor and model with
• Recipes and projects that introduce and echo the
  messages.
• Field trips and experience opportunities that
  reinforce and provide practice.
• Assume nothing!

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Making Sense of The Marketplace

• Dietary Guidelines for Americans
• http//www.cnpp.usda.gov/dietaryguidelines.htm
• http//www.choosemyplate.gov/
• Institute of Medicine Reports
• http//www.iom.edu/Reports
• School Meals 10/20/2009
• Sodium 4/2010
• Obesity 4/2010

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Making Sense of The Marketplace PDF Handouts
My Plate Topics

• http//www.choosemyplate.gov/tipsresources/tentips
  .html.
• Choose MyPlate 
• Add More Vegetables to Your Day
• Focus on Fruits 
• Make Half Your Grains Whole 
• Got Your Dairy Today? 
• With Protein Foods, Variety Is Key 
• Build a Healthy Meal
• Healthy Eating for Vegetarians
• Smart Shopping for Veggies and Fruits
• Liven up Your Meals With Vegetables and Fruits 
• Kid-Friendly Veggies and Fruits 
• Be a Healthy Role Model for Children 
• Cut Back on Your Kid's Sweet Treats 
• Salt and Sodium

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Making Sense of The Marketplace

• My Pyramid Menu Planner
• http//www.mypyramidtracker.gov/planner/
• http//www.mypyramid.gov/
• http//www.nutrition.gov/
• http//www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/
• http//www.fruitsandveggiesmorematters.org/
• Dole Nutrition Institute http//www.dolenutrition.
  com/

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Making Sense of The Marketplace

• Dietary References
• http//ods.od.nih.gov/Health_Information/Dietary_R
  eference_Intakes.aspx
• Cooperative Extension http//www.extension.org/pag
  es/Eating_Out_Smart
• NIH Complementary and Alternative
  http//nccam.nih.gov/health/
• Small Steps Program
• http//www.smallstep.gov/

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Making Sense of The Marketplace

• Mayo Clinic Newsletter
• http//www.mayoclinic.com/health/housecall/HouseCa
  ll
• National Institute of Health Diabetes site
• http//diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/
• Office of Dietary Supplements
• http//dietary-supplements.info.nih.gov/
• CDC
• http//www.cdc.gov/nutrition/professionals/index.h
  tml

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Making Sense of The Marketplace

• Fran Sizer and Ellie Whitney Nutrition Concepts
  Controversies (12th edition 2011) Wadsworth
  Cengage
• International Food Information Foundation (IFIC)
• Food Insights Newsletter Free newsletter on line
• Understanding Our Food Information Kit (Sept
  2010)
• 2011Food and Health Survey Consumer Attitudes
  Toward Food Safety, Nutrition Health.
• http//www.foodinsight.org/
• Environmental Nutrition Newsletter. Subscription
  http//www.environmentalnutrition.com.
• Tufts University Health and Nutrition Newsletter.
  Subscription. http//www.healthletter.tufts.edu.
• Food and Health Communications Newsletter.
  Subscription http//www.foodandhealth.com.
• http//quackwatch.org/

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Making Sense of The Marketplace

• http//www.nationaldairycouncil.org
• American Dietetic Association
• http//www.eatright.org/ http//www.eatright.org
  /kids/
• American Diabetes Association http//www.diabetes.
  org/
• American Heart Association website
• http//www.americanheart.org
• www.myfatstranslator.com

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Making Sense of The Marketplace

• General Mills Bell Institute
• http//www.bellinstitute.com/
• Kraft Foods Click on Healthy Living
• http//www.kraftfoods.com/kf/
• Spices/flavoring and health
• http//www.mccormick.com/Spices101.aspx
• Cooking with Splenda http//www.splenda.com/
• http//eatbetteramerica.com/
• http//www.nutrientrichfoods.org
• http//gianteagle.com