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Limit Added Sugar Learn about added sugars and the risks of consuming too many. The featured Nutrition Facts label shows users how to find added sugars and set daily limits. Options:
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Diabetes Prevention
Health Promotion Nutrition Weight |
Health Care Professionals
Patients/Clients |
Self-print |
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Blood Pressure and Diabetes Learn what high blood pressure (hypertension) is and how it can be controlled. Options:
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Blood Pressure
General Diabetes Heart Kidney Nutrition |
Elders
Health Care Professionals Patients/Clients Program Staff |
Self-print |
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Find the Carbohydrates on My Native Plate Knowing which foods have carbohydrates (carbs) is one of the first steps to choosing healthy foods. This fact sheet is for use with Carbohydrates by Color Fact Sheet. Options:
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Nutrition |
Health Care Professionals
Patients/Clients Program Staff |
Self-print |
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Carbohydrates by Color To keep it simple, you can use colors--colorful, brown, and white--to identify carbs. Use this fact sheet to help your patients/clients identify carbs by color. Options:
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Nutrition |
Health Care Professionals
Patients/Clients Program Staff |
Self-print |
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Fats and Heart Health The types of fat we eat make a difference. Learn how to make heart-healthy fat choices using this colorful 2-page fact sheet. Options:
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Health Promotion
Heart Nutrition |
Elders
Health Care Professionals Patients/Clients |
Self-print |
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Healthy Eating on a Budget Healthy eating on a budget encourages engaging with food through meal planning, food shopping, food savings, and cooking. Links to recipes and food assistance resources included. Options:
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Diabetes Prevention
Health Promotion Nutrition |
Patients/Clients |
Self-print
Tear-off Pad |
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My Native Plate - Updated This nutrition education tool uses a plate as a guide to show balanced meals with reasonable portion sizes. The front features a sample meal with traditional foods. The back shows 3 more sample meals and tips to add variety to meals and snacks. Options:
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Nutrition |
Health Care Professionals
Patients/Clients Program Staff |
Self-print
Tear-off Pad |
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Coyote and The Turtle's Dream 236-page novel for teens and pre-teens, Coyote and The Turtle's Dream picks up where the Eagle Book series ends. It features characters from the original series, but expands to include family members, teachers and an elderly box turtle and introduces Arianna, a young girl with type 1 diabetes. It is an action-packed mystery adventure, that inspires readers to think about healthy lifestyles, protection of the Earth, loyalty to friends and respect for elders a Native American culture. Features captivating drawings and beautiful, full-color illustrations. |
Behavioral Health
Diabetes Prevention Eagle Book Series Nutrition |
Patients/Clients
Youth Youth Educators |
Book |
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Hummingbird's Squash 394-page novel for preteens and teens, Hummingbird's Squash continues the story of the Coyote and The Turtle's Dream characters which originated from the set of 4 Eagle Books. In this book, Hummingbird pursues an ambitious plan to grow healthy foods that will help the community prevent type 2 diabetes. As the book progresses, she learns what it means to embrace all of one's relatives and honor the wisdom of ancestors. Features captivating drawings and a glossary. |
Behavioral Health
Diabetes Prevention Eagle Book Series Nutrition |
Patients/Clients
Youth Youth Educators |
Book |
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Niki Sam - Mille Lacs Teen with Diabetes Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe teen, Niki Sam, describes her experience living with type 2 diabetes. Watch Video (Running time: 1:33) |
General Diabetes
Nutrition |
Health Care Professionals
Program Staff Youth Youth Educators |
Video |
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Four Tucson Families Keeping Kids Healthy Four Native American families describe returning to traditional ways of eating to reduce their risk for developing diabetes. Watch Video (Running time: 3:12) |
Diabetes Prevention
Nutrition |
Health Care Professionals
Program Staff Youth Youth Educators |
Video |
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Food Insecurity Assessment Tool and Resource List 2-page tool to find out if your patients/clients have food insecurity and give them contact information of community food resources. Provides two questions for health care providers/program staff to ask that screen for food insecurity. Second page can be filled out with community food resource information, and given to patients/clients or set out in gathering places. Download Now! [PDF – 534 KB] |
Nutrition |
Health Care Professionals
Program Staff |
Self-print |
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What's the Big Deal About Whole Grains? 2-page education tool for teens and preteens. Explains whole grains, what they are, and why they are good for your body. Includes a quick quiz with answers. Download Now! [PDF – 488 KB] |
Diabetes Prevention
Nutrition |
Health Care Professionals
Patients/Clients Program Staff Youth Youth Educators |
Self-print |
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Harvesting food is traditional! Full-color poster in PDF format features a Skokomish teen holding freshly-harvested vegetables. Quick information is listed in a box that tells his favorite vegetable, how he avoids pop, fast food, drugs, and alcohol, and his motto to make his family proud. Best if printed on a color printer, letter size. Download Now! [PDF – 6.7 MB] |
Behavioral Health
Diabetes Prevention Nutrition |
Youth
Youth Educators |
Self-print |
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Being multicultural is traditional! Full-color poster in PDF format features a Colville teen in traditional and modern clothing. Quick information is listed in a box that tells how she stays active by powwow dancing, eats traditional foods, and shows respect for her family. Best if printed on a color printer, letter size. Download Now! [PDF – 6.5 MB] |
Behavioral Health
Diabetes Prevention Nutrition Physical Activity/Exercise |
Youth
Youth Educators |
Self-print |
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Whole Wheat Fry Bread 1-page tool offers an easy-to-follow recipe for healthier whole wheat fry bread. Includes calories and fat grams. Photo of fry bread pieces illustrates what a portion size should be. Download Now! [PDF – 383 KB] |
Nutrition |
Health Care Professionals
Patients/Clients Program Staff |
Self-print |
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Ten Doable Ways You Can Enjoy Meals on Special Days "1-page educational tool that helps clients find ways to enjoy powwows, feast days, graduations, and other celebrations while maintaining their healthy eating goals. Easy-to-use checklist offers tips to avoid nutritional traps like fatty treats, hidden calories and other temptations, and how to get right back on track the next day. Clients check off what they can do, then share their accomplishments with their health care provider. Download Now! [PDF – 246 KB] |
Nutrition
Weight |
Health Care Professionals
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Self-print |
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John lost 10 pounds in five months and gained muscle 4-page article about John Shije (Santa Clara Pueblo), how he went through it all: cigarettes, alcohol, weight gain, diabetes. But one day he started listening to medical experts and to his wife. Find out the three things John did to start losing weight and how his positive outlook on insulin has helped him. Download Now! [PDF – 1.1 MB] |
General Diabetes
Nutrition Weight |
Health Care Professionals
Patients/Clients Program Staff |
Self-print |
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How to Survive the Miles and the Temptations 2-page article about two Native women who share tips on how they help their families eat healthy while traveling to relatives tribes powwows and rodeos. One has diabetes and the other does not. They suggest packing coolers of healthy foods to help resist convenience store temptations. Download Now! [PDF – 547 KB] |
Nutrition | Patients/Clients | Self-print |
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From Crazy to Control 4-page article about Raquel Yepez (Western Shoshone) who calls her former eating style "crazy eating." Raquel tells how family stress caused her to overeat and how a tribal weight loss challenge helped her start losing weight. Written by Raquel, this article lists six steps she practices daily to stay at a healthy weight. Download Now! [PDF – 1.5 MB] |
Nutrition
Physical Activity/Exercise Weight |
Patients/Clients | Self-print |
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Fast Food Plan That Works! 2-page article about how Grace Goad (Timbisha Shoshone) changed her fast food eating habits to reach two goals: to live as long as her mother - 105 years, and to be able to easily bend down and put on her socks. Options for healthy eating away from home are offered for several fast food restaurant menus. Download Now! [PDF – 2.2 MB] |
Nutrition
Weight |
Health Care Professionals
Patients/Clients Program Staff |
Self-print |
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Can you taste the LOVE? Bringing Healthy Dishes to Gatherings Shows You Care A 3-page article about how to eat healthy at gatherings. Josephine remembers a gathering when someone brought a salad garnished with cholla (cactus) buds. "It was just a regular green salad with cholla buds," she says and she loved it. The cholla buds are proof. You can put love in the food, have people really enjoy the dish and have it be good for them. For your next gathering: Transform comfort foods with great ideas for using healthier traditional foods. Download Now! [PDF – 4.3 MB] |
Nutrition |
Health Care Professionals
Patients/Clients Program Staff |
Self-print |
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The Bigger-Than-Life Portion 3-page article about how Perry Dyea (Laguna-Kawaika) controls food portions. Once while dining out, he ordered a small, 4-ounce steak with no visible fat. He ate only half the potatoes and was well on his way to wrapping up his sensible meal when the Bigger-Than-Life-Portion of cake arrived with a thud. What did Perry do? What would you do? Hint: You can eat out and not overeat! Download Now! [PDF – 3.7 MB] |
Nutrition | Patients/Clients | Self-print |
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Tips for Educators Using My Native Plate – Updated 1-page information sheet designed for educators using My Native Plate to help them use it more effectively. Includes five key issues that affect peoples eating habits, and instruction on where to find and print out the USDA nutrition tool Ten Tips to a Great Plate. Download Now! [PDF – 564 KB] |
Behavioral Health
Nutrition |
Health Care Professionals
Program Staff |
Self-print |
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Eagle Book Series Set of 4 Eagle Books for pre-school through grade school children, beautifully illustrated with Native American characters and wise animals. These books inspire and encourage young readers to find joy in physical activity, eating healthy foods, and learning about health and diabetes prevention. A teachers guide entitled The Eagle Book Series: A Guide for Educators and Communities is also available on the catalog. |
Behavioral Health
Diabetes Prevention Eagle Book Series Nutrition Physical Activity/Exercise |
Patients/Clients
Youth Youth Educators |
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