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Two Fresh Nutrition Resources to Savor
ODC releases Savor DASH and Pyramid Plus™ to help people make healthier food choices. The Savor DASH tear pad promotes healthy eating for everyone, especially individuals with high blood pressure, by emphasizing the flavor and flexibility of the DASH eating style. Pyramid Plus is a colorful tool to help people get the most nutrition from their calories and make each calorie count.
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Nutrient Density: A Tool to Communicate Healthier Choices
Health Connections: Linking Nutrition Research to Practice, Spring 2006, Dairy Council of California
The concept and evolution of nutrient density has a renewed focus within the Dietary Guidelines and MyPyramid. This newsletter describes how health professionals can use nutrient density as a tool to help clients replace some of the foods they eat with more nutritious alternatives. Ms. Zelman, Director of Nutrition at WebMD and moderator of the 2004 Naturally Nutrient Rich Symposium, shares her insight on the concept and uses of energy density and nutrient density.
Read Article [PDF]
Order Pyramid Plus - A Nutrient Density Resource
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Whey Protein: Waste Product of the Past is Nutritional Powerhouse of the Future
Health Professional Backgrounder
Dairy Council of California 2004
In the past 20 years, whey protein has gone from being a waste product of cheese-making to a highly valued product rich in nutritional and functional properties. Whey is now used in various products – infant formulas, food supplements, sport bars and beverages – to meet a variety of health goals for people of all ages. Knowledge and application of the health benefits of whey protein often lags behind the research, however. This monograph summarizes the best substantiated health benefits of whey protein.
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Whey Protein: Nutritional Powerhouse
Consumer Fact Sheet
Dairy Council of California 2004
Even if you are not an elite or serious athlete you may have heard about the benefits of consuming whey protein for its effects on body composition, improving the immune system and helping with weight management. This handout will give you some background information on whey protein and how to incorporate it into your diet.
View Consumer Fact Sheet [PDF]
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MyPyramid – One Pyramid Doesn’t Fit All Anymore!
MyPyramid, developed by USDA, comes in one new shape but lots of sizes because it’s personalized just for you! It’s a new way of looking at the foods you eat and drink and the physical activity you do everyday. Use the MyPyramid Symbol to remind you to think, shop, eat, and move for overall health and well being!
To get your own personalized eating plan, go to the MyPyramid website. You can spend a minute or longer depending on the answers and details you want. MyPyramid.gov makes it possible for people of different ages, gender, height, and weight to get personal eating and activity plans. Find out how you are doing, and then use the website to keep track of changes you make. Search for answers to questions about nutrition and the benefits of eating and moving for a healthier you!
Visit MyPyramid Plan
Visit MyPyramid Tracker – Diet and Fitness Tool
Visit MyPyramid.gov
Visit MyPyramid for Kids
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New Dietary Guidelines: Eat More
of the Good Stuff!
The Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2005 encourages eating more nutrient rich foods like low-fat and fat free milk and milk products, fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. USDA and HHS have announced guidelines to “feel better today and stay healthy for tomorrow.”
News Article [PDF]
Order Guidelines Magnet
Dietary Guidelines:
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Brochure - To a Healthier You [PDF]
Visit Healthier US.gov - Dietary Guidelines
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Are You Eating Enough Super Foods?
These nutrient-rich foods are encouraged in the 2005 Dietary Guidelines. Find out the health benefits and tips for including in your day.
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Add a Little DASH to Your Diet: New Dietary Guidelines Endorse a Healthy Eating Plan
DASH stands for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. It's a meal plan based on scientific research that shows eating a variety of foods from certain food groups can reduce high blood pressure. The benefits of DASH don't stop at controlling blood pressure; it is an all around, heart-healthy meal plan that many have adopted as part of a health-conscious lifestyle. The 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans encourages DASH eating plan as a simple way to meet dietary recommendations.
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Visit DASH info from National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
Visit NHLBI Study: PREMIER Finds All-in-One Approach to
Lifestyle Changes Effectively Lowers Blood Pressure
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A Food Labeling Update
Health Connections: Linking Nutrition Research to Practice, Winter 2005, Dairy Council of California
Food labels provide consumers with information about the health consequences of their food choices and offer a means of nutrition education. The Nutrition Facts panel and any accompanying voluntary claims and descriptors, comprise the major elements of nutrition information authorized by the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA).
This issue of Health Connections summarizes new and upcoming changes to the food label and provides health professionals with facts and ideas to help clients use food labels to improve their food choices and their health.
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Family Meals are All Important
Vision Times, Summer 2004, Ellyn Satter, MS, RD, LCSW, BCD
"If I had to settle for one thing to tell families about preventing child overweight, helping children to eat a variety of food and raising them to have positive eating attitudes and behaviors, I would say, have meals."
Ellyn Satter offer the "why," "how-to and a monthly e-newsletter on family meals.
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Calcium & Vitamin D
Health Connections, Linking Nutrition Research to Practice, Winter 2004, Dairy Council of California
Historically, nutrient intake recommendations have been set using levels needed to prevent short-term consequences of deficiency. Evidence is building, however, that the long-term impact of even marginal deficiencies should be considered when setting requirements. Recent Dietary Reference Intakes (DRIs) take small steps towards addressing longer term chronic disease.
In his E.V. McCollum Award lecture, Dr. Robert Heaney highlights this problem using examples from calcium and vitamin D. Arguments indicate that requirements may need to be adjusted if these long-latency deficiency diseases are to be prevented. This newsletter focuses on calcium and vitamin D, two nutrients for which there is increasing evidence that prevention of long-latency diseases should be considered when setting intake recommendations.
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Taste Rules Food Choices
Health Connections, "Linking Nutrition Research to Practice", Fall 2003, Dairy Council of California
Nutritional scientists agree, taste is the number one reason why people choose the foods they do. Taste overrules nutritional value, cost, safety and even convenience in making food choices. Can any aspect of the chronic disease epidemic in the US, called by some “diseases of lifestyle,” be accounted for by the palatability of foods and beverages on the market shelves? How can we [...] improve people’s eating habits, thus decreasing chronic disease risk without compromising taste and enjoyment?
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Safe Food Preparation
Food and Drug Administration/Center for Applied Nutrition
Questions and answers about keeping foods safe to eat. Questions include: How long can you leave leftover foods out of the refrigerator and still be safe? Is a slow cooker safe? How can you keep “take-out” food safe? Use this valuable information with consumers, training food service or day care workers, and teens.
Visit Food and Drug Administration/Center for Applied Nutrition
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“La Hora de Comer” is Brimming with Information to help Maintain Family Mealtime!
(English version: Mealtime: Keep It Simple, Keep It Fun, Just Keep It!)
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior March/April 2002 Vol. 34, 2; page 123
“This excellent brochure for the Spanish-speaking population is…colorful, contains attractive graphics, and is brimming with information.”
Making mealtime a top priority takes more than just a desire. This brochure includes action steps to help your desires become a plan. A mini emergency grocery list and quick to fix recipes will come to the rescue for those busy evenings.
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