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KEYNOTE #1:
How to Turn Kids on to Healthy Habits
by Barbara Storper, MS, RD

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. top

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:

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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