In today’s fast-paced world, understanding nutrition and healthy eating habits is more crucial than ever. The following resources provide valuable insights and practical advice on various aspects of health, nutrition, and cooking, catering to a diverse audience ranging from students to parents and educators. Whether you’re seeking information on adolescent health, cooking tips, or dietary guidelines, these materials will equip you with the knowledge needed to foster healthier lifestyles.
The Activity Pyramid Overhead Transparency
Institute for Research and Education HealthSystem ©1996
This full-color transparency is designed to motivate individuals to incorporate more physical activity into their daily routines. The visual aids and easy-to-understand layout make it ideal for educational purposes, aiming to promote a healthier, more active lifestyle.
Target Audience: High school students, general adults, health clinics, nutritionists, and physical education instructors
Format: Transparency
Adolescent Nutrition: Assessment and Management
Chapman & Hall ©1996 Vaughn I. Rickert
This comprehensive guide focuses on the unique nutritional needs of adolescents aged 12-21. It includes practical assessment techniques and management strategies to improve adolescent nutrition. Topics range from exercise and contraception to chronic illnesses like HIV/AIDS, psychosocial concerns, body image, and surgical nutrition strategies. Each chapter concludes with a clinical case study for practical insights.
Target Audience: Nutritionists, teachers, health clinics, and college students
Format: 677-page book
Afraid to Eat: Children and Teens in Weight Crisis
Healthy Weight Journal ©1997 Frances M. Berg
This report examines childhood and adolescent obesity, physical activity, dieting behaviors, and eating disorders. It offers statistics and recommendations for more compassionate care, promoting well-being, and lifetime health habits, while also addressing eating disorder prevention.
Target Audience: Nutritionists, teachers, parents, and general adults
Format: 299-page book
The African-American Child’s Heritage Cookbook
Sandcastle Publishing ©1993 Vanessa Roberts Parham
This cookbook celebrates Black heritage through over 200 recipes tailored for children to cook with an adult. It includes traditional Southern dishes, healthier soul food adaptations, Caribbean cuisine, and more. The book also discusses African-American celebrations, cooking safety, and the contributions of George Washington Carver.
Target Audience: Elementary school children, childcare providers, parents, and teachers
Format: 289-page book
All About Calcium
National Health Video ©1996
This educational video covers the importance of calcium for bone and teeth health, muscle function, and nerve activity. It includes special guidelines for children, adolescents, pregnant women, and individuals at risk for osteoporosis. The package contains reproducible learning objectives, activities, quizzes, and explanations.
Target Audience: High school students, upper elementary students, health clinics, parents, and general adults
Format: 12-minute video with teaching resource package
All About Carbohydrates
National Health Video ©1996
This video explains the differences between simple and complex carbohydrates, dispels common sugar myths, and highlights the benefits of complex carbohydrates. Cooking demonstrations, such as vegetable rice and pasta primavera, are also featured. The package includes learning objectives, activities, quizzes, and an explanation sheet.
Target Audience: Upper elementary and high school students, health clinics, parents, and general adults
Format: 16-minute video with teaching resource package
All About Fiber
National Health Video ©1996
This educational video highlights the role of soluble and insoluble fiber in the diet and offers tips on how to increase fiber intake. It also features demonstrations of easy fiber-rich dishes and provides resources like learning objectives, quizzes, and explanations.
Target Audience: Upper elementary and high school students, general adults, health clinics, and parents
Format: 16-minute video with teaching resource package
All About Iron
National Health Video ©1996
This video discusses iron’s role in the body, covering topics such as anemia, iron supplements, and food sources. It includes recommendations for women, children, and pregnant women, and explains the differences between heme and non-heme iron. The teaching package offers activities, learning objectives, quizzes, and explanations.
Target Audience: Upper elementary and high school students, health clinics, parents, and general adults
Format: 11-minute video with teaching resource package
All About Protein
National Health Video ©1996
This video provides an overview of protein’s structure, function, and role in the diet. It addresses essential amino acids, protein requirements, sports nutrition, and the connection between protein and fat intake. The package includes learning objectives, quizzes, and explanations.
Target Audience: Upper elementary and high school students, health clinics, parents, and general adults
Format: 14-minute video with teaching resource package
All U Can Eat: Make It Fast!, Make It Cheap!, Make It Delicious!
Princeton Review Publishing ©1996 Lela Nargi
This humorous cookbook is tailored for students and young adults, offering easy, affordable recipes along with practical tips for cooking and shopping. It includes guidance on basic food storage and coffee-making essentials, ideal for beginners.
Target Audience: College students and general adults
Format: 207-page book
Am I Fat? Helping Young Children Accept Differences in Body Size
ETR Associates ©1992 Joanne Ikeda
This guidebook helps teachers, parents, and caregivers address weight sensitivity in children under ten. It offers strategies for fostering a positive body image and self-esteem, along with classroom activities, case studies, and physical activity suggestions.
Target Audience: Teachers, parents, school nurses, childcare providers
Format: 117-page book
The American Dietetic Association’s Complete Food and Nutrition Guide
Chronimed Publishing ©1996 Roberta Larson Duyff
This comprehensive guide offers practical advice on nutrition for all ages, translating scientific data into healthy eating habits. It covers everything from baby food to senior nutrition, making it a useful resource for promoting lifelong healthy habits.
Target Audience: General adults, nutritionists, college students, health clinics, and teachers
Format: 619-page book
American Food Habits in Historical Perspective
Praeger Publisher ©1995 Elaine N. McIntosh
This book explores the history of American dietary habits, from Columbus to the 20th century. It analyzes mainstream and regional cuisine, ethnic foods, and “pop” foods, highlighting similarities across different time periods and cultures.
Target Audience: Nutritionists, teachers, and college students
Format: 251-page book
Amy Spangler’s Breastfeeding: A Parent’s Guide
©1995 Amy Spangler
This easy-to-read, practical guide helps parents understand how to incorporate breastfeeding into their busy lives. It offers step-by-step instructions and tips for new and expecting mothers.
Target Audience: Pregnant and new mothers, parents
Format: 110-page book
Anorexia Nervosa: Finding the Life Line
CompCare Publishers ©1986 Patricia M. Stein
This straightforward book provides an intimate look at anorexia from the perspective of those who have recovered. It includes basic information on causes, treatments, and prevention, with expert insights from both a psychiatrist and an endocrinologist.
Target Audience: High school and middle school students
Format: 93-page book
The Anthropologists’ Cookbook
Universe Books ©1977 Jessica Kuper, Editor
This cookbook goes beyond recipes, offering cultural insights into food preparation and consumption from around the world. It features dishes from Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and the Pacific, along with discussions of their cultural significance.
Target Audience: High school students and general adults
Format: 230-page book
The Best Breakfast
Learning Seed ©1995
This informative video offers a realistic look at what constitutes a balanced breakfast. It analyzes common choices, such as coffee and donuts, fast food, and the traditional bacon and eggs breakfast. Emphasizing that meals rich in protein and complex carbohydrates are the best way to start the day, the program encourages students to explore nutritious, non-traditional options like leftover spaghetti, pizza, and stir-fry. It also addresses the impacts of skipping breakfast and demonstrates how to select cereals with solid nutritional value. Accompanying materials include a summary of key points, a quiz, reproducible handouts, and creative ideas for appealing, easy-to-make breakfasts.
- Audience: Middle school and high school students, general adults
- Format: 22-minute video, 10-page guidebook
Bestfeeding: Getting Breastfeeding Right for You
Celestial Arts ©1990 Mary Renfrew
This straightforward guide provides women with essential information on how to successfully breastfeed and troubleshoot common issues, complete with accurate illustrations.
- Audience: Pregnant and new mothers, parents
- Format: 225-page book
Better Homes and Gardens New Junior Cookbook
Better Homes and Gardens Books ©1989 Gerald M. Knox, Editor
This engaging cookbook is designed for children aged eight to twelve who are starting to cook independently or have some experience in the kitchen. With over 50 kid-tested recipes, each one is guaranteed to be a hit, as confirmed by the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchens.
- Audience: Elementary and middle school children, childcare providers, parents
- Format: 80-page book
Better Homes and Gardens Step-By-Step Kids’ Cookbook
Better Homes and Gardens ©1984
Starting with simple recipes, this cookbook progressively introduces more complex dishes. Each recipe is accompanied by helpful photographs and step-by-step instructions, along with cooking tips and measuring guides. By the end, children will have mastered many cooking basics.
- Audience: Elementary students, childcare providers, parents
- Format: 96-page book
Betty Crocker’s Cooking with Kids
Macmillan, A Simon & Schuster Macmillan Company ©1995 Betty Crocker
Attention, kids! This fun-filled cookbook is all about enjoying time in the kitchen with delicious results. Featuring recipes from Homemade Granola Bars to Dinosaur Calzones and One-Pot Spaghetti to Oh-So-Chocolate Brownies, these kid-friendly recipes are easy to make and taste great, having been tested in kids’ own homes.
- Audience: Elementary students, childcare providers, parents
- Format: 176-page book
The Big Red How-To-Guide: Planning a Health Fair for Children and Families
National Health and Education Consortium ©1996 Christina A. Foley
This guide aims to assist communities in organizing child and family-focused health fairs, which often emphasize adult health issues. It is divided into two sections: pre-planning and planning. The pre-planning section addresses essential steps, including community assessments and forming a task force, while the planning section covers financing, exhibitors, location, and promotion.
- Audience: Nutritionists, health educators, community teachers
- Format: 81-page book
The Breakfast Place
J. Weston Walch ©1993 Lee Hamill
This resource transforms the classroom into a take-out restaurant, providing developmentally disabled students with real work experience and opportunities to develop essential social skills. As other students purchase breakfast, one “employee” prepares toaster pops while another manages transactions, and a third delivers orders. It includes complete instructions, tips, checklists, and 87 pages of reproducible forms, such as inventory sheets and self-evaluation forms.
- Audience: Developmentally disabled students
- Format: 128-page book
Breakfast: Lily Changes a Habit
©1993
In this engaging video, Lily discovers the nutritional benefits of eating breakfast, showcasing appropriate food choices for both adults and children in line with the USDA Food Pyramid.
- Audience: Childcare providers, sponsors, parents, health clinics, general adults
- Format: 11-minute video
Breastfeeding and Human Lactation
Jones and Bartlett Publishers ©1993 Jan Riordan
Drawing on over 50 years of combined clinical experience, this comprehensive resource combines clinical techniques with research findings on breastfeeding. A study guide is also available to complement this text.
- Audience: Physicians, nurses, healthcare professionals
- Format: 693-page book
Breastfeeding and Human Lactation: Study Guide
Jones and Bartlett Publishers International ©1993 Kathleen G. Auerbach
This study guide is designed for those preparing for the lactation certification exam. It features questions aligned with chapters in the main textbook to enhance understanding and retention.
- Audience: Healthcare professionals, nurses, physicians
- Format: 149-page book
Breastfeeding Educator Program
1995 Debi Leslie Bocar
The Breastfeeding Educator Program is a comprehensive training resource designed to prepare healthcare providers to assist breastfeeding families in various situations. Originally aimed at hospital nurses and childbirth educators, it can be easily adapted for use in health departments with dietitians, nutritionists, and social workers.
- Audience: Nutritionists, dietitians, nurses, childbirth educators
- Format: 530-page resource notebook
Breastfeeding Peer Counselor Programs for North Carolina WIC Programs
1997 North Carolina Department of Health and Natural Resources
This manual assists staff in developing and implementing breastfeeding peer counseling programs within local health agencies serving the WIC Program population. It emphasizes access for all pregnant and breastfeeding women utilizing these services.
- Audience: Nutritionists, nurses, lactation consultants, WIC program staff
- Format: Training manual
Breastfeeding Success for Working Mothers
National Capital Resources, Inc. ©1985 Marilyn Grams
This book is a must-read for working mothers who want to balance their careers and breastfeeding. It offers practical tips for making breastfeeding enjoyable and manageable without sacrificing freedom.
- Audience: Pregnant and new mothers, parents
- Format: 156-page book
Breastfeeding Your Baby
Georgia Department of Human Resources
This educational video is tailored for new mothers, covering the benefits of breastfeeding, effective techniques, and how to involve family members while managing work commitments.
- Audience: Parents, pregnant women
- Format: 13:27-minute video
Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession
Mosby-Year Book, Inc. ©1994 Ruth Lawrence
This reference book serves as a valuable resource for healthcare professionals, providing essential information on the clinical management of breastfeeding for mothers and infants.
- Audience: Nurses, physicians, healthcare professionals
- Format: 878-page book
Building Your Activity Pyramid
Institute for Research and Education HealthSystem ©1996
This interactive guidebook encourages everyone to incorporate more physical activity into their daily lives. It includes self-assessment and goal-setting worksheets, as well as tips for overcoming temporary setbacks related to stress management, cholesterol, or blood pressure.
- Audience: High school students, general adults, health clinics, nutritionists, physical education instructors
- Format: Guidebook, lesson plans