About This Product
Making Healthy Choices is a complete wellness
course. Its six (6) Videos and corresponding Skill Building
Guides address these topics: healthy lifestyle, eating,
exercise, stress management, personal relationships and change.
The Making Healthy Choices sessions can be used separately
or as a series to help you adopt positive and lasting changes
for life.
Healthy Eating Video
While watching the Healthy Eating Video you
will learn the importance of nutrition to overall health,
the basics of a well-balanced diet, and guidelines for shopping
and preparing healthy food. Healthy eating doesn’t mean
dieting and denial; rather, it means listening to our bodies
and learning what food gives us energy and makes us feel our
best. There are many simple ways to improve the way we eat,
from increasing the amount of fresh fruits and vegetables
to learning how to read nutrition labels. By completing the
Skill Building Guide you will examine your attitudes toward
food and eating, assess your own diet and affirm your understanding
of nutrition, learn a simple process for evaluating and making
food choices, and explore non-nutritional needs that affect
your eating patterns.
Highlights from Healthy Eating
Every time we take a bite we’re making
a choice about nutrition and, ultimately, about how we feel
and how well we can function.
Why we eat: On a very basic
level, eating is necessary to keep us alive. But for most
people, the reasons for eating are far more complex than just
simple hunger.
Eating does not exist separately from the rest
of our lives. There are two different types of hunger, a physical
stomach hunger that signals the body’s need for fuel,
and an emotional hunger that occurs when we don’t actually
need to eat.
Eating and obesity: When we
become distanced from our body’s physical hunger and
instead eat in response to other cues, the result can be America’s
number one nutrition-related problem: obesity. Experts estimate
that as many as 30 percent of adult Americans and 25 percent
of children are at least 20 percent over their ideal weight.
Carrying excess weight can increase the risks for many serious
health problems – heart disease, diabetes, even some
cancers.
As hazardous as obesity can be, the alternative
is not always healthy, either. Studies have shown that cycles
of weight loss and gain – called “yo-yo dieting”
– can be even more dangerous to health than remaining
overweight. Repeated dieting can erode a person’s self-esteem
and contribute to the cycle of failed weight-maintenance attempts.
Using the food guide pyramid:
One simple tool for eating healthfully is the U.S. Department
of Agriculture’s Food Guide Pyramid, which shows the
proportions of food that make up a healthy daily diet. This
Pyramid is changed as needed to reflect changes in scientific
theory.
Improved food labeling: The
food pyramid shows the types and proportions of food that
make up a healthy diet. But sometimes we need to know more.
How many grams of fat are in a serving of a certain food?
If you’re watching your sodium, how can you tell which
foods are best? Fortunately, packaged foods are now required
to display nutrient information on the label.
Reading the labels on processed foods can help
us make good nutritional choices. But there are also some
simple methods we can use in the grocery store.
Making healthy choices while shopping:
Rather than looking at every ingredient of every food, we
should go back to the basics: focusing on grain products,
fruits, and vegetables, rather than basing meal planning around
meat and dairy products.
Healthy cooking techniques:
Buying healthy foods is just the first step. It’s also
important to prepare it in a way that maintains the nutrients
and doesn’t add unnecessary fats, salts, and other substances.
Eating with kids: It’s
difficult to improve our own eating habits. Getting children
involved in healthy eating can be an even greater challenge.
Involving kids in meal planning and preparation may encourage
them to try nutritious foods.
Making healthy eating choices for wellness:
In the end, healthy eating is all about making choices. We’re
surrounded by all sorts of food, and the choices we make can
affect how we feel, how healthy we are, and even how long
we live.
The old notion that “willpower”
was enough is way out-of-date. We need to become informed,
listen to our bodies and our hunger, and choose the foods
that will help us feel the way to we want to feel.
Healthy Eating Skill Building Guide
The Healthy Eating 14 page skill building guide
is included with this video to help your audience assess their
options and plan for change. Your purchase entitles you to
reproduce the worksheets that appear in the guide for your
educational activities. Specific written permission is required
from the publisher for reproduction of the material in any
other publication.
Making Healthy Choices Leader Guide
Describes and summarizes the Making Healthy
Choices Video series. Guide for offering series. Additional
suggestions for augmenting course. Leader's Guide is 14 pages
in length. It refers to the contents of all six videos and
how to best use them. No charge with any purchase from Healthy
Choices series.
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