Keynote Presentations
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Programs can be specially designed for educators, nutritionists, school food service, health staff, child care workers, and parents of pre-school, elementary, middle school, high school and college-age students. Call us at 1-800-FOODPLAY or email us for more information.
See also: Upcoming Presentations, Past Presentations, Reviews Offering Educators Great Ideas to Address:Obesity Prevention KEYNOTE #1:
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Pick the keynote that’s right for you! Barbara Storper, MS, RD, children's nutrition expert,
delivers motivating keynote presentations and can bring along
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Join Emmy Award-winning nutritionist, Barbara Storper, MS, RD, a leader in the field of children’s nutrition, as she demonstrates how to work nutrition magic on today’s youth. Recipient of a host of awards including the first “Outstanding Young Nutrition Educator in the Country Award,” Barbara brings her twenty-five years of creative nutrition education and media expertise to help professionals...
Participants will learn about the nutrition and health issues affecting today’s youth and bring back to their settings a host of innovative nutrition education techniques and strategies that work. Participants will be inspired to create fun and successful programs using live theatrical performances, storytelling, puppetry, exhibits and displays, cooking activities, role playing, theater games, rhythm and rhyme, improvisation, media campaigns and social marketing techniques. |
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We came here expecting to hear from the best and the true experts, and Barbara truly is...I don't think you can improve on this!"—New York Nutrition Council Annual Conference, Albany, NY
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KEYNOTE #2:
FOODPLAY - Making Good Eating Great Fun!
Use this Emmy Award-winning, fun-filled theater
performance to kick off your next nutrition, health, wellness,
or education conference!
Using the power and excitement of live theater, fantastic feats of juggling, colorful characters, motivating health messages, music, magic and audience participation, FOODPLAY demonstrates for educators how to address the major nutrition and health concerns affecting today’s school children with methods proven to improve student health and nutrition knowledge, attitudes and behavior.
Inspiring, fun and full of great ideas to make nutrition come alive in any setting, FOODPLAY is a favorite conference event which helps participants broaden their toolkit of innovative nutrition and health education methods.
FOODPLAY demonstrates creative ways to address:
- Pyramid Power
- Read It Before You Eat It!
- Fruits and Veggies: More Matters
- Fast Food Challenge
- Cutting down on sugar and fat
- Healthy snack counter-attack
- The importance of daily physical activity
- The importance of breakfast every day
- Positive body image
The performance is available as a keynote in conjunction with Barbara Storper, MS, RD, presenting a strategy session demonstrating ways to create successful nutrition and health education programming. It can also be accompanied by break-out sessions and workshops.
Very interesting. Barbara kept me listening and I really loved the FOODPLAY act. I have been working with food service 22 years and have been to many, many workshops and conferences. Hers was one of the best that will stay with me."—New Mexico Food Service Directors Conference, Albuquerque, NM
KEYNOTE #3:
THIS IS YOUR LIFE! - Empowering Adolescents To Make Healthy Choices!
A
rib-tickling and thought-provoking keynote presentation for
educators who work with adolescents! This Is Your Life! proves that nutrition and health can be made
fun and exciting for today’s youth... just throw in some
theater, pop culture, humor, and improvisation!
Designed to combat the alarming rates of childhood obesity, diabetes, poor body image, eating disorders, osteoporosis and tobacco use, This Is Your Life! helps youth see through media messages and peer group pressures in order to make healthy choices.
Created under sponsorship by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Massachusetts Department of Public Health, this evidence-based theater program has been shown to dramatically improve nutrition and health knowledge, attitudes and behavior of adolescents. Adults also love the show, learn a lot and take home great ideas on innovative approaches to health education.
The performance is available as a keynote in conjunction with Barbara Storper, MS, RD, presenting a strategy session demonstrating ways to create successful nutrition and health education programming. It can also be accompanied by break-out sessions and workshops.
Outstanding presentation! The actors kept the audience constantly engaged by their passion and wit. The issues dramatized are highly relevant to the physical and mental well-being of adolescents. How can we get this out to all our schools?"—National Assembly on School-Based Health Care, New Orleans, LA
