2000 California High School Fast Food Survey: Findings and Recommendations (2000)
Public Health Institute
Provides findings and recommendations regarding a survey of fast food as it relates to obesity at CA high schools.
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Body Weight and Body Image Lessons for Adolescents (2001)
V. Star Campbell, M.S., M.Ed., RD; Pennsylvania Department of Education
Designed for grades 7 through 12. Curriculum contains seven multidisciplinary lessons that can be taught in Family and Consumer Sciences, Health Education, Math, and Statistics. Each lesson includes a lesson plan, student worksheets, teacher answer sheets, transparency masters, background information for both students and teachers, and recommended resources. Covers normal eating, normal physical activity, portion sizes, body image, food-mood connections and eating volumetrically.
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Bright Futures Activity Book (2000)
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
Provides parents with the opportunity to teach their children about health and safety, nutrition, physical activity, self-expression, and oral health.
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Bright Futures in practice - Nutrition: User's Guide (2000)
National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health
This user's guide was designed to provide an overview of Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition and to assist health professionals in using the information and materials in that guide. See Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition for details.
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Bright Futures in Practice: Nutrition (2000)
Mary Story, Katrina Holt, and Denise Sofka
Emphasizes prevention and early recognition of nutritional concerns. Provides developmental guidelines from the prenatal period through adolescence.
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Brown Bag Success - Making Healthy Lunches Your Kids Won’t Trade (1997)
Sandra Nissenberg and Barbara Pearl
Designed for parents of school-aged children who want to get the most out of their children’s lunch-box meals. A nutrition analysis of recipes is included.
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Childhood Obesity: Prevention and Treatment (2000)
Jana Parizkova, Andrew Hills
Provides a comprehensive characterization of the obese child and adolescent before and after treatment. Reviews a variety of treatment modalities, including suitable diet and exercise and pharmacological and surgical approaches. Covers the main principles and results of studies following treatment using a variety of approaches. 480 pages.
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Cooking Terms Bingo Game (2000)
Learning Zone
Cooking Terms Bingo game consists of 25 Large 8.5 X 11" laminated Bingo Cards and Instruction Sheet.
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EatFit Student Workbook (2002)
University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources
EatFit is desinged to improve the eating and fitness choices of middle school adolescents. The student workbook is a 20-page, magazine-style booklet that contains activity sheets for students.
Booklet
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EatFit Teacher Curriculum (2002)
University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources
EatFit is designed to improve the eating and fitness choices of middle school adolescents. The curriculum consists of nine lesson plans, lesson enhancements, recipes, educational standards, references and workbook answer sheets. The lessons include nutrition basics, web-based diet analysis, information about energy and calories, label reading, exercise, fast food, breakfast, and media influence.
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Eating on the Run (1992)
Evelyn Tribole
This book is designed to help readers make healthy food choices while managing busy and hectic lives. It discusses eating on the run for weight loss and disease prevention, vitamins, feeding kids on the run, and athletes too.
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Exercise Your Options: A Middle School Nutrition and Physical Activity Education Program (1998)
Dairy Council of California
Exercise Your Options teaches middle school students to make decisions that influence their health by analyzing their own food and activity choices. The program consists of 7 lessons, each approximately 40 minutes in length. Includes teacher guide, Food Guide Pyramid poster, transparencies, and student workbooks.
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Exploring Our Food Heritage 4H Foods Curriculum (Leader & Member Guide) (1999)
University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service
This 4-H Foods Curriculum differs from traditional foods projects in that the topics are related to historical and cultural aspects of food as well as food preparation and nutrition. In a school setting, it may be used as an interdisciplinary unit addressing, the areas of history, multicultural education, health, and language arts. Designed for youth ages 9 and older. Leader and Member Guide.
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Feeding with Love & Good Sense (1997)
Ellyn Satter
Four videos, with teacher's guides, that use nutrition and feeding as a vehicle to teach parenting. The videos cover infants, older babies, toddlers, and preschoolers.
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Feeding Your Child for Lifelong Health - Birth through Age Six (1999)
Susan Roberts
Introduces research into “metabolic programming” and makes it accessible and practical for every busy parent. This book explains how the foods you choose can optimize your baby’s future development, IQ, bone strength, and immunity.
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FIT Kids! The Complete Shape-Up Program from Birth through High School (1999)
Kenneth Cooper
Contains training instructions, meal plans, and helpful, easy-to-read reference charts. The author offers a total program of diet and exercise customized for every age from preschoolers to teenagers.
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Food Choices (1998)
E2: ENVIRONMENT & EDUCATION
You will investigate the effects of food production, diet, and nutrition on human health and the environment. You will analyze your school's food service program and identify healthy choices and practices.
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Food Pyramid Pursuit - Game (2000)
Learning Zone Express
"Board" Game designed for use with 4 - 6 players ages 12 years to adult. Game board is a full color laminated sheet. Players answer questions about nutrition, their diet and the Food Guide Pyramid. To win, a player must collect all 6 pieces of the pyramid by completing the required "number of servings" in each food group. Players learn nutrition facts about the Food Guide Pyramid and the recommended servings of each food group.
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Food Science 4H Food Curriculum (Leaders & Members Guide) (1997)
University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service
This 4-H Foods curriculum emphasizes the structure and composition of foods and how food changes, including changes that take place during food preparation. Designed for youth ages 9 and older. The primary activity in each session is an experiment but uses kitchen equipment and does not involve dangerous chemicals or techniques. Although there are no recipes in the project, there is an experimental result or related food that can be used as a snack for each session. Leader & Member Guide.
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Food Science: Kitchen Mysteries Revealed (2000)
Learning Seed
This video illustrates that science lives in the kitchen and on the dinner table as well as the laboratory. Answer questions like Why do we whip cream and beat eggs? and Why do onions cause tears? 22 minute video.
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For the Health of It: Teen Nutrition (1989)
University of Georgia
Discusses the nutritional needs of teenagers and the dangers of chronic dieting.
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Getting Into A Food Mood - Communicating Food Issues (1996)
National 4-H Council
Getting Into A Food Mood: Communicating Food Issues is a leaders guide to help teach children and youth about where our food comes from, how we view it, and how we are assuring that future populations will be fed. It is intended to be used with participants ages 8 - 15 (grades 3 - 10) in a classroom or non-formal learning situation, such as a 4-H club meeting.
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Handbook of Child Nutrition (1998)
L.S. Taitz and B. Wardley
A short, practical guide for health professionals who have no special knowledge of nutrition but who have to deal with nutritional and dietary problems and questions in children during their general work.
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Healthy Food for Healthy Kids (1999)
Bridget Swinney
A practical and tasty guide to your child’s nutrition. Includes menus and recipes. For use by parents and caregivers of children of all ages.
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Healthy School Meals ... Healthy Kids! A Leadership Guide for School Decision-Makers. (1997)
USDA Team Nutrition
This leadership guide provides information to school decision-makers on using materials and resources developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and describes Team Nutrition, an implementation plan to support schools in implementing the new policy, provide state-of-the-art nutrition education to children and families, and training and technical assistance for food service personnel.
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Healthy School Meals Training
USDA Team Nutrition
A trainer’s guide of approximately 200 pages; also includes 180 slides and reproducible transparencies. Developed to assist state agencies and school districts in implementing the School Meals Initiative for Healthy Children.
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Healthy Snacks for Kids (1996)
Penny Warner
This book is a collection recipes that are high in nutrition, easy to prepare, inexpensive, low in or free of sugar and salt and loved by kids.
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Healthy Treats & Super Snacks for Kids (1994)
Penny Warner
A recipe collection. Also includes tips on getting kids to eat, tips on reducing levels of fat, salt, and sugar in kids' diets, and games to play at the table for mealtime fun. For use by parents and caregivers of children of all ages.
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How To Get Your Kid to Eat...But Not Too Much - From Birth to Adolescence (1997)
Ellyn Satter
About real life feeding situations, the things that go wrong, and what it takes to fix them. And the things that go right. And how they got that way.
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Jump Start Teens (1999)
California Project Lean
Jump Start Teens's cross-curricular lessons encourage students to eat healthy, keep moving, and become smart consumers and involved citizens! Jump Start covers relevant, real-life topics, such as The ABCs of Healthy Eating; Let's Get Physical; Teens Making a Difference; Advertising's Hidden Messages; It's in the Label - The Food Label; Have It Your Way Fast Food; Eating to Win; and Making News - A Primer on the News Media.
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Jump Start Your Bones (2000)
Kathleen Klatzbach-Shimamura, Debra Palmer Keenan
Jump Start Your Bones is a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary osteoporosis prevention curriculum that can be utilized by School Nurses, School Teachers, Extension Educators, and other Health Professionals. The intended target audience is middle school (6th-9th grades) students receiving classroom education. This curriculum includes background information for the educator, full color lesson plans for Family and Consumer Science, Health, Physical Education, and Life Science, handouts.
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Key Informant Interviews with Students, Experts, and LEAN regional coordinators about Healthy Eating, Physical Activity, and Multicultural Youth (1998)
Califonia Project LEAN
This report summarizes the major findings from interviews that were conducted with trhee key informant groups.
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Kids Count Data Book 2001 - State Profiles of Child Well-Being (2001)
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The raw numbers contained in the 12th annual KIDS COUNT Data Book paint a statistical portrait of the condition of America's children. Using 10 indicators, this resource profiles individual states and the District of Columbia, graphs state indicators over time, ranks states by indicators and includes color coded maps. This information is also available on line at www.kidscount.org.
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Meals Without Squeals (1991)
Christine Berman, MPH, RD & Jacki Romer
This book is packed full of information and advice on preparing food and feeding children. There are seven chapters in this book: 1. What you should know about feeding children 2. Feeding and growth 3. Planning how and what to feed children 4. The recipes 5. Sample menus using our recipes 6. Running a ship-shape kitchen 7. Envrionmental concerns
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Mid-LINC Middle Level Interdisciplinary Curriculum; Parts I, II, and III (1995)
V. Star Campbell and Cheryl Achterberg
This is a multidisciplinary thematic unit developed to help students make connections between different subject areas. Nutrition issues are used as the subject matter to tie all subject areas together. Includes lesson plans for grades 6-8.
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MVE-TV: The Channel for Moderation, Variety and Exercise
National Livestock and Meat Board
MVE-TV is a comprehensive, engaging nutrition education program that incorporates innovative “edutainment” concepts. Designed to help secondary students develop lean eating habits in line with sound nutritional practice. Includes video and lesson plans.
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Nasco Food Science Handbook (2000)
Betty Wedman / Learning Zone
A reproducible handbook that will give middle school and junior high students a greater understanding of the foods they eat each day. Students learn scientific concepts and related theories of food preparation and processing, and recognize the principles of chemistry and physics that occur in recipe development and food preparation. 36 page,softcover. Great for family and consumer science teachers.
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Pediatric Nutrition Handbook - 4th Edition (1998)
American Academy of Pediatrics
A reference book for practicing clinicians on requirements and metabolism of specific nutrients, nutrition support of healthy infants and children, and nutrition for children with acute and chronic illness.
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Play Hard Eat Right - A Parents’ Guide to Sports Nutrition for Children (1995)
Debbi Jennings and Suzanne Steen
Addresses common concerns of coaches and parents about nutrition needs of exercising children 6 -12 years of age.
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Playing the Policy Game (1999)
california Project LEAN
Preparing Teen Leaders to TAKE ACTION on healthy eating and physical activity.
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Present Knowledge in Nutrition; Eighth Edition (2001)
Barbara A. Bowman and Robert M. Russell (editors)
This text includes chapters on energy physiology, macronutrients, fat and water soluble vitamins, minerals and trace elements, and nutrition and the life cycle. It also includes chapters on physiology and pathophysiology and nutrition and chronic disease such as obesity, diabetes, and osteoporosis. International nutrition including food insecurity and hunger, and emerging issues in nutrition such as food safety are also discussed. The writing style is scientific and detailed.
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Quick Meals for Healthy Kids and Busy Parents (1995)
Sandra Nissenberg, Margaret Bogle, and Audrey Wright
Over 140 tasty recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts, and snacks. Includes timesaving ideas for organizing grocery shopping and the kitchen.
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Rice - Grain of the Ancients (1996)
Marcia Eames-Sheavly / Cornell Cooperative Extension
This 36 page booklet designed for use with youth ages 9 - 12 (4H programming) explores rice growing through the letters of an imaginary pen pal named Lanlan Chen in northern China. By reading her stories and the stories and poems of others and by doing the activities (9), children will get to know more about rice and come to understand why it is so important to the people of Southeast Asia. Activities can be modified for older or younger children.
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Save Your Child from the Fat Epidemic (1999)
Gayle Povis Alleman
This book is an effort to give busy parents knowledge, ideas, and strategies to help them develop eating and activity habits in their children that promote lifelong health.
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Seeds of Change: Learning from the Garden (2001)
Judy Mannes & Marsha Rehns
This book contains four parts - "From Two Worlds to One" introduces students to Christopher Columbus and his contributions to cultures around teh globe. "From Field to Table" offers insight into the ways culture influenced the cultivation and preparation of food. "In the Garden" brings children outside and teaches them how to create and maintain their very own seeds of change. Finally, "Harvest Celebrations" provides fun activities to do with your class using elements from your garden.
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Serving Up Success! (1997)
USDA Team Nutrition
A “how-to” activity booklet supporting the theme Get Growing – From the Ground Up! The booklet features actual nutrition education activities created by schools across the country.
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SLIC: Secondary Level Interdisciplinary Curriculum (1997)
V. Star Campbell and Kay Meyers
Multidisciplinary thematic units and lesson plans for grades 9-12 covering special concerns in nutrition, alternative eating, disordered eating, physical activity, and food safety.
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Sports Nutrition Lessons For Adolescents (2001)
V. Star Campbell, M.S., M.Ed., RD; Pennsylvania Department of Education
For use with 7-12th graders participating in school or community-based athletics. The curriculum contains five multidisciplinary lessons that can be taught in Family and Consumer Sciences, Health Education, Math, Statistics, and Science. Each lesson is keyed to the Pennsylvania education standards and includes a lesson plan, student worksheets, and recommended resources.
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Spread the Word (1997)
USDA Team Nutrition
A promotional flyer that talks about the link between nutrition and learning. Developed for Team Nutrition Days 1998, it informs the community about the Agency’s nutrition programs.
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Team Nutrition Calendar Companion (1997)
USDA Team Nutrition
This is a companion piece to our Activity Calendar and is designed to help plan and conduct monthly activities. The Calendar Companion is a handy resource for: lesson plans and activities, information about supporter organizations and events and contests that promote nutrition and health, recipes for school and home, food service tips, and reproducible information for parents.
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Team Nutrition Days…and Beyond: How-To Kit
USDA Team Nutrition
The Team Nutrition Days How-To Kit is a comprehensive guide that contains information on creating Team Nutrition activities: gardening, fair activities and publicity.
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Team Nutrition School Activity Planner (1995)
USDA Team Nutrition
A guide designed to involve Supporters with Team Nutrition School Leaders in planning activities. It includes activity suggestions and reproducible materials that can be personalized, copied and distributed to children and parents.
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Team Nutrition’s Teacher Handbook: Tips, Tools and Jewels for Busy Educators (1997)
USDA Team Nutrition
The teacher’s guide, which includes a discussion of nutrition concepts, a lesson-specific section that provides helpful hints for implementing the lessons, and a reference section for teaching the lessons. A motivational audiotape is also included.
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Team Up At Home: Team Nutrition Activity Booklet (1996)
USDA Team Nutrition
This is a collection of hands-on nutrition education activities for parents to use with their school-age children. This 20-page activity booklet is produced in a reproducible format for classroom and community use.
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Team Up With Team Nutrition - A Penn State Cooperative Extension In-Service (2000)
Penn State University
This video lasts for 1 hour and 23 minutes. It helps people who never heaad of Team Nutrition and who have beening using Team Nutrition know more about Team Nutrition, learn more about the resources, programs, web sites, and possibility of grants that are now available, and learn more about how to locate schools.
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Teens Eating for Energy & Nutrition Curriculum (2001)
University of Minnesota
School based behavioral intervention program for 7th & 8th Grade. Curriculum stresses cancer risk reduction focusing on increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables and low fat foods. Includes a video and audio tapes. Classroom activities include food records, games, station activities, label reading, goal setting and behavior modification. Utilizes teen peer leaders.
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The 2000 Dietary Guidelines For Americans (2001)
Evers, William D, Ph.D., RD and Hanley, Erin E, RD
This CDROM explains the history and rationale behind the new 2000 Dietary Guidelines for Americans. Two powerpoint slideshow presentations, intended for educators and the public audience, 10 supplementary handouts, pre and post evaluations for presentation, posters, student activites, and further resources are included. Also includes ABC's of health: Aim for fitness, Build a healthy Base, and Choose sensibly.
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The ABC’s of Feeding School-Age Children (1998)
American Dietetic Association
Provides sound nutrition advice for parents of school-age children regarding tips and strategies for steering their children toward healthful eating habits.
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The Appealing Apple (2000)
Marcia Eames-Sheavly / Cornell Cooperative Extension
This 28 page booklet is designed for use with youth age 9 - 12 but is adaptable for other ages. After reading and doing the activities readers will know about the apple's original home, be able to identify the major apple-producing countries today, and will learn what these regions have in common. Activities include making apple doll puppets, exploring apples in literature, and playing historic games using apples. Taste tests, making cider,career information and recipes are included.
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The Great American Peanut (1994)
Marcia Eames-Sheavly / Cornell Cooperative Extension
This 20 page booklet designed for use with youth (4H programming) takes you on a journey with an imaginary traveler Samuel Purvis to learn about peanuts. Students will learn about how peanuts grow, the people who grew them, how they arrived in this country and the challenges of growing warm weather crops in northern climates. Includes many suggestions for activities and experiments.
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The Healthy Body - Over 50 Fun Activities and Delicious Recipes for Kids (1999)
Joan D’Amico and Karen Eich Drummond
Contains over 50 safe and easy recipes and activities addressing the crucial role that diet and exercise play in the development of heart, blood, bones, muscles, skin, teeth, and the nervous and digestive systems.
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The Humble Potato - Underground Gold (1995)
Marcia Eames-Sheavly & Tracy Farrell / Cornell Cooperative Extension
Designed for children ages 9 - 12 (4H youth programming), this 40 page booklet explores potatoes through the eyes of 3 imaginary children who lived in different places and at different times. By reading their stories and doing the suggested activities, children will learn about the history of potatoes, how to grow them, and how they stack up nutritionally. Can be adapted for older or youner children.
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The Kid’s Activity Pyramid - Tear Off Sheets
Park Nicollet HealthSource Institute for Research & Education
Uses a pyramid graphic to encourage certain activities everyday (base of the pyramid), others 3-5 times a week, etc.
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The Three Sister - Exploring an Iroquois Garden (1993)
Marchia Eames-Sheavly / Cornell Cooperative Extension
This 24 page booklet designed for use with 4H youth, includes legends, activities, and a pattern for making corn husk dolls. It addresses the need for genetic diversity, and illustrates how and when to plant your own "Three sisters". It provides a better understanding of a unique growing method, as well as the people who created it. By exploring this Iroquois gardening method, you can learn more about 3 wonderful crops as well as gain an awareness of Native American culture.
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This Is Your Life: A Teacher's Activity Guidebook for Hands-On Health! The Activity Guidebook for Working with Teens (1999)
Barbara Storper & Foodplay Productions
This Activity Guidebook is designed to help middle and high school boys and girls improve their eating, exercise, and health habits and foster self-esteem. Can be used separately or as an accompaniment to the "This Is Your Life" theater show or Video Kit.
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Triangle of Health: Personal Challenge (1992)
Disney Educational Productions
This 10-minute video is one of four videos in the Triangle of Health series. In this video: Lisa was a little out of shape and a little overweight. But she found that through good nutrition and sensible exercise, she could compete on a level she once thought impossible. Lisa becomes an inspiration to others who want to know how to set goals and build better nutrition, exercise and rest habits.
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Understanding the Causes of a Negative Body Image - A Teen Eating Disorder Prevention Book (1999)
Barbara Moe
Designed for teen readers. It discusses positive and negative body image, with an emphasis on body size and weight, and suggests ways to improve self-esteem and develop a healthy body image.
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yourSelf - Middle School Nutrition Education Kit for Teachers (1998)
USDA Team Nutrition
Curriculum provides information about the relationship of food, nutrition, growth, and health in a appealing way. Designed to help 7-8 graders make smart choices about eating and physical activity. Includes video, visuals, lunchroom link suggestions and handouts.
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