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Health Educator’s Nutrition Toolkit: Setting the Table for Healthy Eating

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The Health Educator’s Nutrition Toolkit is designed to help health educators, dietitians, physicians, other health care and nutrition professionals, social workers, youth counselors, and program directors teach consumers about the Nutrition Facts label and how to use the information it provides to make healthier food choices. The Toolkit offers a wide range of resources, including realistic tips on how to shop for and prepare food as well as order food when eating out to build a healthy diet.

The Toolkit includes:

• An introductory guide with information on how to use the toolkit (for health educators) (PDF - 1MB)
• Tip Sheet #1: Tips for Making Healthy Choices While Food Shopping (PDF - 15545KB)
• Tip Sheet #2: Tips for Bringing Nutrition into Your Home (PDF - 545KB)
• Tip Sheet #3: Tips for Making Healthy Choices When Eating Out (PDF - 409KB)
• Tip Card: Quick Tips for Reading the Nutrition Facts label (PDF - 273KB)
• A PowerPoint presentation, including notes, split into two sections – “Understanding the Nutrition Facts label” and “Bringing Nutrition Into Your Daily Life” (PPT - 43.4MB)
• Evaluation tools: a pre-test (DOC - 75KB) / post-test (DOC - 76KB) (10-15 questions) to accompany the PowerPoint presentation
• An infographic with tips on using the Nutrition Facts label and MyPlate when planning, shopping, cooking, and eating (PDF - 823KB)

Sample social media posts with nutrition education messages and graphics

Share the social media messages and graphics below to encourage your audience to make healthier choices at home and while dining out.

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DYK Americans eat and drink about one-third of their calories away from home? Use these tips from @FDAFood to make healthier food and beverage choices while dining out. www.fda.gov/media/131159/download

Healthy cooking and eating starts at the grocery store. Make healthy food purchases by reading the Nutrition Facts label. Here’s what to look for: www.fda.gov/media/131160/download .

Even small shifts to healthier food options can add up to healthy lifelong changes. Learn how: www.fda.gov/media/131191/download .

Commit to healthier choices at home and while dining out. Here are some tips from @FDAFood to help! www.fda.gov/media/131159/download .

Is grocery shopping on your to-do list? Bring @FDAFood’s Tip Card with you to help you make healthy choices www.fda.gov/media/131162/download .

Sample Facebook Posts

Looking up nutrition information BEFORE you dine out can help you make healthier choices away from home. Check restaurant websites, phone apps, and menus. Once you have the nutrition information, choose items lower in calories, saturated fat, trans fat, sodium, and added sugars. www.fda.gov/media/131159/download .

Did you know Americans eat and drink about one-third of their calories away from home? Use these 3 tips to help you make healthier choices while dining out: www.fda.gov/media/131159/download .

Commit to healthier choices at home and while dining out. These easy tips from FDA’s Nutrition Toolkit can get you started: www.fda.gov/media/131159/download and www.fda.gov/media/131160/download .

Take time to choose healthy options, whether you are food shopping, cooking or eating out. Even small shifts to healthier options can add up to healthy lifelong changes. www.fda.gov/media/131160/download .

Shop smart! Read the Nutrition Facts label when food shopping to make healthier choices for you and your family. www.fda.gov/media/131160/download .

Looking for more? Share one of our social media messages at @FDAFood on X , U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Facebook and Pinterest .

FDA has additional Nutrition Education Resources and Materials for a variety of audiences, which can be used along with the Toolkit for planning and conducting nutrition education programs and individual instruction.

Toolkit for Health Professionals

Nutrition is one of the best tools we have to help reduce the risk of chronic disease. Health professionals play a key role in encouraging healthy food and beverage choices. Use these materials to start a conversation and share key messages with your patients, clients, and peers on the evidence-based nutrition guidance found in the  Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020–2025 :  

• Talk to Your Patients about Healthy Eating  
• Build Healthy Eating Routines Across the Lifespan  
• Cut Down on Added Sugars, Sodium, and Saturated Fat  
• Make Healthy Drink Choices   

These materials and more are found on DietaryGuidelines.gov in English and Spanish . 

For Health Professionals

Talk to your patients about healthy eating.

This guide includes nutrition tips and conversation starters for dietitians, nurses, doctors, and other providers working with the public.

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Build healthy eating routines across the lifespan.

These handouts provide tips to help people eat healthy at all stages of life. 

Cut Down on Added Sugars, Sodium, and Saturated Fat

These materials offer people guidance for lowering the amounts of added sugars, sodium (salt), and saturated fat consumed.

Make Healthy Drink Choices

This guide provides tips for choosing healthy drink choices. 

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This presentation provides evidence-based information that covers some of the fundamental basics of nutrition. It is a great resource for going back to the basics of nutrition! The purpose of this product is to provide the audience with easy to digest nutrition topics so that they are able to apply it to their own lives. This presentation gives your audience information and tips on how to incorporate more nutrient dense foods, healthy proteins, fiber-rich carbs, healthy fats, the importance of micronutrients and various sources, how to stay hydrated, what to eat before and after a workout, how to identify types of hunger cues, how to read a food label, and building a balanced plate.

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• Calories – definition of a calorie and how they are burned, calorie dense vs. nutrient dense
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We are indulged in a lot of daily activities. To carry out these activities a large amount of energy is required. This energy comes from the food we consume. Food is vital as it provides the energy needed for growth, repair, and other life processes. All these come under the life process called nutrition.

Let’s learn about nutrition and different types of nutrition in detail.

What is Nutrition?

“Nutrition is the process of taking in food and converting it into energy and other vital nutrients required for life.”

Nutrients are the substances which provide energy and biomolecules necessary for carrying out the various body functions. All living organisms need nutrients for proper functioning and growth. But they show divergence in how they fulfill this demand. Some animals feed on simple inorganic compounds to meet their nutrient requirement, while others utilise complex compounds. The mode of nutrition varies from one species to another.

Also Read:  Nutrition in Plants

Types of Nutrition

Broadly, there are two types of nutrition among living organisms, namely:

• Autotrophic mode
• Heterotrophic mode

Autotrophic Nutrition

In the autotrophic mode, organisms use simple inorganic matters like water and carbon dioxide in the presence of light and chlorophyll to synthesize food on their own. In other words, the process of photosynthesis is used to convert light energy into food such as glucose. Such organisms are called autotrophs. Plants, algae, and bacteria (cyanobacteria) are some examples where autotrophic nutrition is observed.

During photosynthesis, carbon dioxide and water get converted into carbohydrates. These carbohydrates are stored in the form of starch in plants. Plants later derive the energy required from the stored starch. The process of photosynthesis can be explained in three stages:

• Absorption: The chlorophyll present in leaves traps the light coming from the sun.
• Conversion: The absorbed light energy gets converted into chemical energy. And water absorbed will split into hydrogen and oxygen molecules.
• Reduction: At last, carbon dioxide gets reduced i.e. hydrogen molecules combine with carbon, to form carbohydrates (sugar molecules).

All three events are not a continuous process. They may or may not take place sequentially.

In plants, stomata are the openings on leaves where gaseous exchange takes place and is regulated by guard cells. Plants take in and release gases through these stomatal pores.

In desert-like habitats, to avoid water loss, guard cells keep these pores closed during the daytime. Later, during the night time, stomata will be opened to absorb carbon dioxide and store in the vacuoles. During the daytime, they will use this stored carbon dioxide to perform photosynthesis.

Other than photosynthesis, plants also depend on soil for micro and macro elements. These elements are used to synthesize proteins and other essential compounds required for the proper functioning and growth of the plants.

Also Read:  Nutrition in Animals

Heterotrophic Nutrition

Every organism is not capable of preparing food on its own. Such organisms depend on others for their nutrition. The organisms which cannot produce food on their own and depend on other sources/organisms are called heterotrophs. This mode of nutrition is known as heterotrophic nutrition .

Fungi and all the animals including humans are heterotrophs. Heterotrophs can be of many varieties depending upon their environment and adaptations. Some may eat plants (herbivores) and others eat animals (carnivores) while few eat both (omnivores). Thus we can say survival of heterotrophs depends directly or indirectly on plants.

Heterotrophs are classified into different categories based on their mode of nutrition. They are:

• Parasites (e.g. leeches, ticks)
• Saprophytes (e.g. mushrooms)
• Holozoic (e.g. humans, dogs)

Also Read: Photosynthesis

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What are the different modes of nutrition in living beings.

The different modes of nutrition include:

• Autotrophic nutrition
• Heterotrophic nutrition

What are the different modes of heterotrophic nutrition?

The different modes of heterotrophic nutrition include:

• Saprophytic

What is holozoic nutrition? Which organism exhibits holozoic nutrition?

Holozoic nutrition is the mode of heterotrophic nutrition that involves ingestion, digestion, absorption and assimilation of solid and liquid material. This type of nutrition is exhibited by amoeba that takes in complex substances and converts them into simpler substances.

What are mixotrophs?

Mixotrophs are organisms that use a mix of different sources of energy and carbon rather than a single trophic mode. Euglena is an autotroph as well as a heterotroph and is called a mixotroph.

Are all protists mixotrophs?

Not all protists are mixotrophs. A few protists are strict heterotrophs. While a few are both autotrophs and heterotrophs. The mixotrophic protists are called acetate flagellates.

What is the mode of nutrition in plants?

Plants exhibit an autotrophic mode of nutrition because they can prepare their own food. Plants use sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to produce energy during photosynthesis.

Why is nutrition essential for a living organism?

Nutrition is very important to lead a healthy life. A balanced diet reduces the risk of diseases and improves the overall health of an organism. It provides energy to the cells to carry out the cellular activities.

What is the mode of nutrition in blue-green algae?

Blue-green algae can be autotrophs, heterotrophs or mixotrophs.

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What do you understand by nutrition and nutrients   .

Human Beings always require energy to perform various types of activities. It is irrefutable that food is necessary to get the energy that is needed. Food is defined as the set of different chemicals consumed by living organisms for the motive of development, repair as well as replacement of body cells, the release of energy and maintains all the processes related to life. The entire process by which the organisms consumed and utilize food for development and maintenance is known as Nutrition. Moreover, the components of the chemical present in the food are named as Nutrients.

All the nutrients are required to be consumed by the organisms to build and maintain the healthy functions of the body. 

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Nutrients and their kinds

Nutrients are molecules in food that all living organisms need to make energy, grow, develop and reproduce. They are digested and then broken down into the basic parts to be used by the organism. Moreover, these substances are needed in small amount as well as in large amounts according to the nutrients. Macronutrients and Micronutrients are two important categories of nutrients.

• Macronutrients : The substances which are required for the body in large amounts are known as Macronutrients. These are of three kinds such as Carbohydrates (Sugar), Lipids (Fats) and proteins. Moreover, all such nutrients provide energy to living beings in the form of calories. 

To exemplify, there are four calories per day can be consumed from carbohydrates, in protein, there are four calories and nine calories per gram from lipids. So, it indicates that if you have a food product and it is labelled that it contains ten grams of carbohydrates, zero gram of protein and zero gram of fat, then it would have forty calories that can be consumed by a person. Human needs a large number of carbohydrates as it is the main source of fuel for the body and are easily metabolized.

• Micronutrients : Vitamins and minerals are two kinds of Micronutrients. It is required in small amount and they play a vital role in the development of a human being as it regulates the heartbeat, metabolism, cellular pH and density of the bone. Without proper consumption of micronutrients, human being suffered from various ailments such as rickets, scurvy and osteoporosis. 

Vitamins are available in two distinctive forms like water-soluble and fat-soluble. At the same token, minerals are available in two forms such as macro-minerals and micro-minerals. Macro-minerals are required in large amount and it encompasses calcium, magnesium, Phosphorus, Sodium and Potassium. The minerals needed in traces are known as Micro-minerals and also known by another name, Trace minerals. It comprises of Iron, Manganese, Copper, Zinc, Iodine, Fluoride and Selenium.

Types of Nutrition

To get a thorough understanding of the nutrients, it is imperative to study the two types of nutrition such as Autotrophic and Heterotrophic. So, Lets’ begin.

• Autotrophic Nutrition : This type of nutrition is found in the autotrophic organisms as they are independent in terms of food processing. There is no need for anything else to prepare their food. Plants get their food from sunlight and water. For instance, blue-green algae and green plants follow autotrophic nutrition. 
• Heterotrophic Nutrition : All the heterotrophic organisms follow this mode of nutrition. Moreover, they rely on other animals for their food and it is obvious that humans and animals are most likely to follow this nutrition process. There are four types of heterotrophic nutrition which will help you to understand it in a better way: 
• Herbivores : These are the animals that eat only green vegetarian food and never depend on any sort of meat food. They are plant lovers. 
• Carnivores : The animals that eat other animals have come under this category and they love human flesh. They are wild and dangerous animals. 
• Omnivores : In simple words, human beings are omnivores.
• Cannibals : It covers human beings who love to eat other humans.

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June 3, 2024 - by Rob Williams

The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service will host the 14th annual Central Texas Stocker Cattle Program on June 26 in West.

Hosted by the AgriLife Extension beef and forage committees in Bell, Bosque, Coryell, Falls, Johnson, Hamilton, Hill and McLennan counties, the program allows participants to hear the latest updates on the stocker cattle industry from agency and local experts.

The event will run from 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m. at the West Auction Barn, 206451 Interstate 35 North frontage road, with registration beginning at 7:30 a.m.

Breakfast and lunch will be included, and there will be a vendor showcase.

Cost to attend is $20 and individuals need to RSVP before June 18. To RSVP, contact the AgriLife Extension office in McLennan County by calling 254-757-5180 or emailing [email protected] .

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Speakers and topics include:

• Agriculture financing in a changing world — Justin Richard and Shawna Ranly, relationship managers, Capital Farm Credit, Waco.
• Defining the dollar value of cattle — Brian Uptmore, auctioneer and manager, West Livestock Auction, West.
• Importance of securing a safe food supply — Chris Ford, special agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation , Dallas.
• Proper vaccination for carcass integrity — John Pollreisz, DVM, managing veterinarian, Zoetis Animal Health.
• Nutrition, forage first — Jason Cleere, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension cattle specialist and associate professor in the Department of Animal Science , Bryan-College Station.
• Cattle market update — David Anderson, Ph.D., AgriLife Extension economist and professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics , Bryan-College Station.

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