Offering Educators Great Ideas to Address:
Obesity Prevention
How to Create a Healthy School Environment
Integrating Nutrition Into Comprehensive and Coordinated
School Health Programs
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Five-A-Day
Pyramid Power
Can the Soda
The Fast Food Challenge
Read It Before You Eat It!
Strong Girls, Strong Bones
Healthy Snack Counter Attack
Promoting School Breakfast
Every Body’s Different, and Different is a Great
Thing!
Seeing Through Media Messages
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KEYNOTE
#1: How to Turn Kids on to Healthy Habits
by Barbara
Storper, MS, RD
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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...
- Make nutrition come alive.
- Boost their creativity.
- Increase their effectiveness.
- Bring fun back to their jobs.
- Develop effective nutrition and health education programs.
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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KEYNOTE #2: This Is Your Life! - Turning Adolescents on to Healthy Habits!
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 science-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.
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KEYNOTE #3: 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!
• 5 Fruits and Vegetables
a Day
• Fast Food Challenge
• Cutting
down on sugar and fat
• Healthy snack counter-attack
• The importance of daily physical activity
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The importance of breakfast every day
• Positive
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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.
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