Websites
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United Healthcare: Healthy Habits
Identify common triggers that lead to unhealthy behaviors and review strategies for healthier habits. Discuss ways to make home and work healthy environments for adoption of healthy habits.
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United Healthcare: Planning Ahead for Healthy Eating
Discuss how planning ahead helps you make healthier choices. Discuss healthy meal planning and snacks and review how to read nutrition labels.
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United Healthcare: Creating a Healthy Eating Plan
Understand the definition of a healthy diet; determine daily calorie needs; learn about major food groups, including proteins, carbohydrates, and fats.
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United Healthcare: The Truth About Dietary Fats
Understand the four major types of dietary fat and their sources. Learn how much fat is needed for a healthy balanced diet and how to avoid unhealthy fats.
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United Healthcare: Healthy Eating on a Budget
Learn tips on how to stretch a dollar, how to incorporate healthy, budget-friendly foods into your eating plan and how to incorporate low cost ingredients into favorite recipes.
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AHA Nutrition Center
The American Heart Association has developed a nutrition resource center to make people aware that “the heart of health is good nutrition.”
Click here to visit the AHA Nutrition Center
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AHA Fats & Oils
This site serves is full of information on which fats and oils your body needs, which fats and oils you should avoid, and low-fat healthy recipes too.
Click here to learn more about healthy fats & oils
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My Plate
MyPlate is the new national food guide to healthy eating. Recently released by the USDA, MyPlate is an easy to understand visual on how to eat right.
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Calorie King
Calorie King provides an online resource that provides the nutritional information for thousands of different foods right at your fingertips.
Click here to visit Calorie King
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Cooking Light
Cooking Light is an online magazine and cookbook that has countless delicious, healthy recipes. You can also search for special dietary needs recipes, like low-cholesterol, vegetarian, or diabetic meals.
Print Material
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Count Calories to Drop Pounds
It sounds simple, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, most people struggle with this concept. This Live Well, Work Well flyer breaks it down and makes it easy to count calories.
Count Calories to Drop Pounds (4)
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Eat a Low Stress Diet
Many stressed people eat poorly because of lack of time, or they harbor intense cravings for junk food. This Live Well, Work Well flyer lists healthy ways to nourish the body during periods of stress.
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Boost your Memory by Eating Healthy
Were you aware that there are certain foods that can actually sharpen your memory? Learn which ones in this Live Well, Work Well flyer.
Eat Healthy to Give your Memory a Boost (5)
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Eat Well, Live Well
This Live Well, Work Well flyer discusses easy ways to improve eating habits.
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Eating Organic
This Live Well, Work Well flyer provides information concerning what foods are considered organic , how they are regulated by the government and how eating them benefits your health.
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Eating out can be Healthy
This Live Well, Work Well flyer gives advice on what choices to make when eating at a restaurant.
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Emotionally Eating
Many times, food is used as a coping mechanism or source of comfort. This Live Well, Work Well flyer lists ways to stop this behavior, and how to tackle the root of the problem instead.
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Estimated Calorie Requirements
This chart shows how many calories to take in each day based on age, gender, and activity level.
Estimated Calorie Requirements (5)
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Food Density & Your Diet
Specific nutrients play a significant role in a healthy diet. This Live Well, Work Well flyer explains the concept of volumetrics and how eating denser foods can assist with weight management.
Food Density and Your Diet (4)
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Food Facts…and Fiction
Are some nuts better than others? Does eating grilled meat cause cancer? Answers to these and other common food related questions can be found in this Live Well, Work Well flyer.
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Food Labels, The Breakdown
This Live Well, Work Well flyer thoroughly explains food labels. The various sections, numbers and percentages on food labels are described. It also includes a second page with a diagram of an actual food label.
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Food Safety
This Live Well, Work Well flyer explains how to properly thaw, prepare, cool and reheat food in order to prevent food poisoning.
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Fruits & Vegetables-Foods to Manage Weight
Tips on how to use fruit and vegetables to lose or manage weight. Includes ideas for children to increase their consumption, as well as a 10-minute recipe.
Fruits & Veggies to Manage Weight (7)
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Fruits & Vegetables-Essentials for Healthy Eating
This Live Well, Work Well flyer provides information on why fruits and vegetables are important for health – including what vitamins and minerals are important, different varieties of fruits and vegetables to try and a 10-minute recipe.
Fruits and Veggies, Essentials for Healthy Eating (3)
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Getting Enough Vitamin-D
This Live Well, Work Well flyer explains the importance of vitamin D and how to get adequate amounts of it.
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Getting Enough Water
This Live Well, Work Well flyer discusses the benefits of drinking water and how much you need each day to maintain optimum health.
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Healthy Food Options
Fat and calories can creep up anywhere if you are not careful about what you eat and drink. Use this chart as a reference for selecting healthier food options when you’re out to eat or preparing foods for your family.
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Healthy Portion Sizes
With the large portion sizes served in most restaurants, it can be easy to get confused about the daily amount of food you consume. This Live Well, Work Well flyer explains what a healthy portion size should be – and even includes photos depicting proper amounts.
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Omega 3
This Live Well, Work Well flyer discusses omega-3 fatty acids and how important they are in the diet. Also includes information on recommended servings and information on safely using fish oil supplements.
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Revolutionary Healthy Diets
This 2-page Live Well, Work Well flyer takes a look at some of the most popular diets on the market today.
Revolutionary Healthy Diets (4)
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Saturated Fat-The Other Bad Fat
This Live Well, Work Well flyer discusses the health dangers associated with the consumption of saturated fats, and provides diet tips on how best to avoid them.
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Substitute Fat in Your Recipes
Butter, eggs, oils and fats can add flavor to your favorite recipes, but also a lot of calories. This Live Well, Work Well flyer lists some healthier alternatives.
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Sugar Substitutes
Do you consider sugar substitutes healthy or dangerous? This Live Well, Work Well flyer outlines the five FDA-approved sugar substitutes in detail.
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Super Foods for Super Health
Slowing down the aging process is something that you can control by incorporating some “super foods” into your diet. This two-page Live Well, Work Well flyer includes a list of foods that are proven to keep your body young.
Super Foods for Super Health (6)
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Support your Local Farmer
Community Supported Agriculture organizations (CSAs) offer a wide variety of fresh produce, dairy and other products in exchange for you purchasing a share of their farms. Learn more about CSAs in this Live Well, Work Well flyer.
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Importance of Breakfast
It is often stated that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Well, it’s true! This Live Well, Work Well flyer explains why, and also provides some ways to fit breakfast into a hectic day.
The Importance of Breakfast (4)
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Think About What You Drink
This article examines the calories in various beverages, and what can be substituted for a healthier option.
Think About What You Drink (5)
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Trans Fat-The Worst Fat
This Live Well, Work Well flyer describes trans fat and how unhealthy it is. It also discusses daily intake, the secret to finding trans fat on nutrition and ingredient labels, and includes a list of the top ten types of foods with trans fat.
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Vegetarian & Vegan Diets
This Live Well, Work Well flyer outlines why individuals choose to eat a strictly vegetarian or vegan diet, how to do so and precautions one should take when carrying out this type of lifestyle.
Webinars
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Earth Fare Webinar
Learn about Earth Fare’s “Food Philosophy,” their community resources, and ways to get great deals at your local store.
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Take Shape for Life Webinar
Take Shape For Life is a unique program designed to help you along the journey toward your optimal health. Watch the webinar below to learn more!
Smartphone Apps
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Calorie Tracker
The LIVESTRONG.COM Calorie Tracker can help you reach your diet, weight loss and fitness goals by tracking your daily calories and exercise. Lose weight easily by setting your weight goals and track your calories and progress with our comprehensive online food journal containing over 1 Million food and fitness items.
Please click here to download the Calorie Tracker App! This App is compatible with both iPhones and android phones.
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Text 2 Eat
Text any food item to “352-42″ to receive nutritional info for that food item and gain instant access to our expansive food database. Making smart food choices has never been so easy!
Click here to download the Text 2 Eat App!
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Restaurant Nutrition
The Restaurant Nutrition application allows a user to easily view nutritional information about restaurant menus and track what they have eaten. It can also synchronize their personal meal entries with the internet web site thePHRnetwork.com.
Click here to download the Restaurant Nutrition App! This App is compatible with iPhones.
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40:30:30
The 40•30•30 iPhone App lets you quickly calculate the percentage of calories in a food from the three macronutrient groups: carbohydrates, protein, and fat.
Click here to download the 40:30:30 App! This App is compatible with iPhones.
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Fooducate
Get Fooducated! Scan and choose healthy groceries. Over 200,000 unique UPCs! As featured in USAToday, NYTimes, WSJ, Lifehacker, Gizmodo and on ABC, FOX, NBC and more…
Click here to download the Fooducate App! This App is compatible with both iPhones and android phones.