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2025 Predictions and Trends for Food and Nutrition Education
As we welcome 2024 and a new year, it is often fun to contemplate where we have been and where we are going on our food, health, and nutrition education journey. The nutrition research, as we have seen over numerous years of Dietary Guideline reviews and in the present 2020-2025 edition, has corroborated a whole-food, plant-based, minimally-processed diet that is low in added sugar, salt, and processed fat especially with regards to trans fat and saturated fat.
MyPlate for National Nutrition Month®
The theme for National Nutrition Month® this year is “Fuel for the Future.” MyPlate’s messages dovetail beautifully with that theme, so let’s take a look at how your clients can use MyPlate to fuel their futures!
Sodium and the American Diet
Sodium is hiding everywhere. Shocking amounts of it are in restaurant and frozen foods, while many packaged and canned foods have tons of sodium as well. The first step towards reducing sodium intake is learning about which foods have what levels. That's where this chart comes in...
Holiday Resource Rundown
It's officially the holiday season and we have loads of fantastic resources to help your audience celebrate in a healthful, balanced, and fun ways!
Building Blocks of Health: A Review
Building Blocks of Health: Dairy
The Building Blocks of Health series is cruising right along and today is all about... dairy!
Building Blocks of Health: Protein
You've seen the intro, you've seen vegetables, you've seen fruit, and now it's time for the next installment of our brand-new series, The Building Blocks of Health...
Building Blocks of Health: Whole Grains
It's time for more Building Blocks of Health, and today we are all about whole grains!
What Do You Know About the Thrifty Food Plan?
The USDA updated its Thrifty Food Plan last week, and I'm here to give you all the details...
Building Blocks of Health: Fruit
One of my favorite lines from the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans is...
Building Blocks of Health: Vegetables
We all know that vegetables play a key role in good health, but despite this knowledge, most Americans aren't getting enough...
New Series: The Building Blocks of Health
We have a brand-new poster in the Nutrition Education Store, and we thought we'd celebrate its introduction with a new series... The Building Blocks of Health!
Back to School Tip #3: The MyPlate Pledge
It's time for our last back to school tip, and this one is all about motivation...
Our Most Popular Series
Get It Prepped was such a huge hit that I want to take a moment to look back on a few other series in Food and Health history. Here are a few top series that are loaded with fresh resources for your clients...
Positive Resolutions: Add a Vegetable
The goal of month five of our Positive Resolution Project is to add more vegetables to your eating pattern!
Bite of the Week: Added Sugars
In our first Bite of the Week, we issued a MyPlate weekend challenge to you and your clients: make your plate look like MyPlate for at least one meal per day during the weekend. We loved your response, so we're back with another one!
Bite of the Week: 3 Ways to Serve Corn
We're back with another Bite of the Week, and this week we want to focus on one of the most fun foods of summer: corn!
Bite of the Week: MyPlate Weekend Challenge
Your clients are probably familiar with MyPlate, the USDA's guide to healthful eating, but how often are they actually using it to guide their meals?
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