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Do you need to teach nutrition to school kids or need a display for your worksite cafeteria?  If so, the Nutrition Council's Lending Library is your resource for your school, worksite, church, health fair, or other wellness event.  Our Resource Room and Lending is a privilege of Associate Members and above.  

Nutrition Council Displays
Each display illustrates a nutrition-related theme by providing the audience with information and tips to make healthier food choices.

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Aim For A Healthy Weight
Includes Mass Index (BMI) Chart and a scale for people to evaluate their own weight. Mounted on a 3-panel foam core display board.
Building A Healthy Temple:  Healthy Eating
Delivers the message that healthy eating can taste good with information on recipe modification. Designed for a church-based audience utilizing scripture. Comes with large blue display board.
Calcium Facts
Provides an overview of calcium requirements and calcium sources on 3 panels.Comes with small gray display board.

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Calorie Balance
A 3-panel display that delivers information about calorie balance. Includes tips for cutting back on calorie intake or increasing calorie output. Comes with small gray display board.

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DASH Eating Plan
Four panel display that delivers an overview of the DASH Eating Plan - one of the two eating plans recommended by the 2005 Dietary Guidelines. Includes information on high blood pressure and the sodium content of foods. Comes with small gray display board.

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Fast Foods
Fat and sodium content of popular fast foods are displayed using test tubes of fat, sugar and salt.  Comes with large gray display board.

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Fast Food - Healthier Choices
Displays four strategies for making healthier food choices, sample meal comparisons, and four healthier choice meal options. Comes with 4-panel display board.

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Fruits and Vegetables: More Matters
Encourages consumers to eat more fruits and vegetables.  Shows amounts needed each day, easy ways to eat more and how all forms count.

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Keep Food Safe to Eat - Fight BAC
An interactive display with questions about each of the four actions of the Fight BAC campagin -- clean, separate, cook and chill. Questions in English and Spanish. Comes with a small gray display board.

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My Pyramid
A 4-panel display on the new food guide - MyPyramid.Panels include information about each food group and serving sizes. Comes with small gray display board.

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Read It Before You Eat It
Each laminated card displays a picture and the Nutrition Facts panel for common snack foods, beverages and packaged breakfast items. Test tubes show the amount of calories, fat and sugar content (both in grams and teaspoons) for the entire package and per serving.

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Whole Grains
Samples of whole grains are shown to help consumers identify whole grains. Other panels show the benefits of whole grains, how to find whole grain foods using the Nutrition Facts food label and tips to eat more whole grain foods.

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Nutrition Education Visual Aids
These realistic visual aids help adults and children decipher the science of nutrition exploring many facets of healthy eating including fat and sodium content of foods, food pyramid, and heart disease.

Amounts of Hidden Fat
An acrylic box display which depicts the percentage of fat in 18 different foods. Comparison of high fat foods versus lower fat choices can be made.

Amounts of Hidden Sodium
An acrylic box display which shows the sodium content of 18 foods. A realistic picture of the amount of hidden salt in foods.

Amounts of Hidden Sugar
An acrylic box display which shows the sugar content of 18 foods. A realistic picture of the amount of hidden sugar in foods.

Death of An Artery
A visual model that demonstrates the way arteries can be clogged with deposits of fat.

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Fat, Salt & Sugar Test Tubes
Test tubes show amount of hidden fat, salt and sugar in various foods.

Food Models
Realistic plastic food replicas include foods from all food groups of the new USDA's MyPyramid. Models are portion sized and can be used to plan meals, and display daily recommended intakes.

Occluded Artery
An acrylic tube depicts 10x larger than life artery showing a constricted passage clogged with plaque.

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One Pound and Five Pounds Fat
Realistic rubber models of one pound and five pounds of body fat.

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One Pound and Five Pounds Muscle
Realistic rubber models of one pound and five pounds of body muscle.

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Games
A variety of interactive games suitable for both children and adults that make healthy eating fun to learn! See Borrowing Policies & Procedures for borrowing information.

5-A-Day Plinko
Guess which fruit or vegetable space the disc lands on then ask a question about a fruit or vegetables such as "Name a vegetable you can put on pizza."

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5-A-Day Wheel
Guess which fruit or vegetable the wheel will stop on then ask a question about a fruit or vegetables such as "How many cups of vegetables should you eat each day according to the new USDA MyPyramid?"

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Whole Grain Game
Help individuals learn about whole grains by knocking out three whole grain foods. Reinforce the concept to eat at least 3 whole grain foods a day.

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Milk Group Ring Toss
A peg-type board with various food models. Kids learn about getting three servings of diary foods each day by trying to ring three dairy foods.

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MyPyramid Game
Learn about the food groups of the USDA's MyPyramid with this 3-diminsional pyramid game.Players toss a ball at the pyramid and are asked to identify the food group or to answer a food group question.

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