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Achieving Your Weight Loss Goals Starts with Setting Your Goals This 1-page article offers an action-oriented plan for weight loss. The article shows how to set and meet realistic long- and short-term weight loss goals, measure progress, and be accountable. Suggests specific actions to replace generic goals and create weight loss success. Download Now! [PDF – 404 KB] |
Weight | Newsletter Editors | Self-print |
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Tucson Indian Center Native Youth Coalition Make a Difference, AZ A public service announcement of Native youth talking about how they are pledging to never start smoking. They describe activities they enjoy such as sports and playing music. Watch Video (Running time: 3:23) |
Tobacco Cessation |
Program Staff
Youth Youth Educators |
Video |
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_How To Get Started Walking Print this easy-to-read 2-page tip sheet that encourages clients to start walking for exercise. Options:
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Physical Activity/Exercise |
Health Care Professionals
Patients/Clients Program Staff |
Self-print
Tear-off Pad |
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_How To Walk Farther and Faster Print this easy-to-read 2-page tip sheet that gives clients ideas on how to walk farther and faster. Options:
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Physical Activity/Exercise |
Health Care Professionals
Patients/Clients Program Staff |
Self-print
Tear-off Pad |
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Active play feels great! Full-color poster in PDF format features a boy holding a basketball. Parents learn that children need about 2 hours of active play each day. Best if printed on a color printer, letter size. Download Now! [PDF – 960 KB] |
Physical Activity/Exercise
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Youth Educators | Self-print |
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Household Circuit Activity Program Household Circuit Activity Program describes how individuals can increase daily physical activity at home by combining a number of household and or yard chores in a defined period of time or circuit. Watch Video (Running time: 2:02) |
Physical Activity/Exercise |
Health Care Professionals
Patients/Clients Program Staff |
Video |
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The Secrets to Getting Fit at Any Age This 6-page article features members of the White Mountain Apache and Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, who are middle-aged and older telling why they started to get fit and how they continue their fit lifestyles. Readers cannot help but be motivated, especially by the photo of 74-year-old Paschal Johnson lifting 300 pounds! Download Now! [PDF – 982 KB] |
Physical Activity/Exercise |
Elders
Patients/Clients |
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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_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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_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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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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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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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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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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Hidden Fats Easy-to-read 1-page education tool shows common foods and drinks alongside multiple teaspoons illustrating amounts of fats. Help your clients understand where many of their diets fats may be coming from, and start making changes to reduce blood sugar levels and lose weight. Options:
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Nutrition
Weight |
Health Care Professionals
Program Staff |
Self-print
Tear-off Pad |
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Hidden Sugars 1-page education tool shows common foods and drinks alongside multiple sugar cubes illustrating amounts of sugars. Help your clients understand where many of their diets sugars may be coming from, and start making changes to reduce blood sugar levels and lose weight. Options:
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Nutrition
Weight |
Health Care Professionals
Program Staff |
Self-print
Tear-off Pad |
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Hidden Sugars and Fats 1-page education tool shows common foods and drinks alongside multiple sugar cubes and teaspoons illustrating amounts of sugars and fats. Help your clients understand where many of their diets sugars and fats may be coming from, and start making changes to reduce blood sugar levels and lose weight. Options:
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Nutrition
Weight |
Health Care Professionals
Program Staff |
Self-print
Tear-off Pad |
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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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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
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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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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Being a Better Man This 1-page article features the story of Eldrid Martinez (Tohono O'odham), who used to put substance use above taking care of his diabetes. He decided to change his life, gave up substances, and started taking care of himself and his family members. He is learning traditional and spiritual ways. He knows there is a lot more he can do, but is committed to continually becoming a better man. Download Now! [PDF – 986 KB] |
Men's Health |
Health Care Professionals
Patients/Clients Program Staff |
Self-print |
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Fitness, Feelings & Family 2-page article explores fitness trainer DeWayne Ungers (Siletz) life as an urban Indian, and how he is raising his three children in ways that are different from his own upbringing, while still instilling in them an appreciation for their Native heritage. Download Now! [PDF – 1.7 MB] |
Men's Health
Physical Activity/Exercise |
Health Care Professionals
Patients/Clients Program Staff |
Self-print |
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Men's Health Poster - It's what I do: Create This full-color poster features Abe Bouscher, a Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians member, with the words create, hunt, gather, fish, and move. Downloadable for color printing on legal size paper. Download Now! [PDF – 3.5 MB] |
Men's Health |
Health Care Professionals
Patients/Clients Program Staff |
Self-print |
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Men's Health Poster - It's what I do: Dance This full-color poster features Florentino Barril, a Tlingit Alaska Native, with the words dance, lead, teach, speak out, and drum. Downloadable for color printing on legal size paper. Download Now! [PDF – 3 MB] |
Men's Health |
Health Care Professionals
Patients/Clients Program Staff |
Self-print |
