March is National Nutrition Month -- do you have everything you need to teach engaging and timely nutrition lessons?

Help your clients put their best forks forward with this pretty coloring page!

Well, National Nutrition Month is over. We sure had a lot of fun celebrating this year. One of our favorite celebrations was our free poster contest, which we ran every week on our Facebook page. Each week we asked a question we were dying to the know the answer to, and each week we picked a winning post and gave away a new poster. Want to see who won each poster?

March is National Nutrition Month! What a great opportunity to remind your clients of the health and nutrition lessons that are closest to your heart! To make your life a little easier, I did a great big round up of helpful links for Nutrition Month...

Nutrition Month can be fun for the whole family! Don't leave kids out of the loop -- these lessons are important for them too. To help with that idea, and to finish off our week of bonus Nutrition Month posts, today we bring you a wonderful handout that offers a perfect way to introduce important information about nutrition.

Today I want to share a new handout that I made just for you -- it's a Nutrition Month quiz...

The National Cancer Institute has revealed that some risk factors can be controlled. Choosing the right health behaviors and preventing exposure to certain environmental risk factors can help prevent cancer development. In other words, taking steps can reduce your risk of cancer is possible. Let’s look at some specific strategies.

Hopefully, Penn Jillette's experience will help make the naïve notion that potatoes somehow promote obesity and type 2 diabetes because of their high glycemic index disappear.

I am having so much fun coming up with new free printable nutrition education materials. Today I want to focus on MyPlate. Here's a brand-new handout that I've created, just for you!

The face of school snacks is changing. With the new USDA regulations, healthful foods are replacing cookies and candy. Soda is disappearing.

If you were to replace birthday cake with the sweet treats in this post, then you would save about 8,000 calories per child per school year, which is quite a bit...

Summer is cooking demo season! That's why I want to offer 15 key questions I ask myself before every cooking demonstration in order to ensure a successful session...

This is the last installment of the MyPlate vegetable subgroup flavor exploration, exploring the uses and flavors of the vegetables in MyPlate's "Other" Vegetable category.

What better way to start off the New Year than with a great calendar full of healthful habits? With built-in goal suggestions and a variety of activities, this calendar has something for everyone.

Ever wondered exactly what you get when you replace a fast-food meal with a MyPlate meal? Not just the calorie savings and nutrient boosts, but an actual comprehensive breakdown of the vitamins, minerals, fiber, etc in each meal? Well, today's your lucky day!It's time for a serious look at the meal makeover. Let's walk through each substitution and added nutrient, step by step. We'll leave no stone unturned, no switch unexplored. Are you ready?

A balanced, appealing bulletin board does not simply pop into being. It takes work, and I have learned a lot about setting up attractive bulletin boards during my many years at Food and Health Communications. Here are the 4 easy steps that you can follow to making a fantastic bulletin board...

People appear to be drawn to cleanses, no matter how bad the health consequences of cleansing are. If that's what they want, there's a way to give it to them without endangering their health. Offer a balanced alternative to the cleansing crowd with this free handout, The Dietitian's Cleanse. Developed by Lenore Shamah, MS, RD, this "cleanse" is healthful, balanced, and won't endanger people's hearts.

Summer is a great time for popsicles -- but are all popsicles created equal? Check out this comparison of popular popsicles' calorie density, nutrient content, and added sugars...

Let this poster inspire you to make your own educational displays. You can use the same basic principle to craft any fun, engaging nutrition poster you'd like. Simply find great photos or drawings of healthful foods (magazine ads are great for this) and form the foods into letters that spell out a key word for your nutrition presentation.

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