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Healthy Eating Every Day (HEED) Online Course Now Available
Are you searching for a proven, safe program that helps people put the dietary guidelines into practice? Do you want that program to offer online resources to help you reach participants who can’t attend on-site classes? Do you need a nutrition program that is effective in the long term? If you answered yes to any of these questions, consider HEED Online.
The newest course offered by Active Living Partners, HEED Online serves as the online component to the Healthy Eating Every Day program. People can purchase the course on our Web site and complete it on their own, or they can register for the course through one of our licensed providers. By taking the course with a provider, participants not only get valuable materials and online guidance, but they also receive superior instruction from trained facilitators and the support of other participants in their class.
Not merely an encyclopedia of dietary terms and suggestions, HEED Online is packed with interactive learning activities and games, a virtual supermarket, and nutrition information in language that people can understand. The Healthy Eating Every Day program follows principles of sound nutrition, written by registered dietitians in agreement with the new dietary standards, to help people safely and effectively improve their eating habits. People find this course fun and effective because they can do the following:
- Track food intake and assess eating habits online. Participants in HEED Online record their current eating habits with online assessment forms, which are stored for later reference. An online Daily Food Log makes it easy to tally food intake and create reports to view progress.
- Get online support. HEED Online features virtual buddies that represent people with various motivations and goals for changing their eating patterns, such as controlling diabetes or maintaining a healthy weight. No matter where they are, participants can find and relate to someone with a similar situation. They can also see how their buddies address barriers to healthy eating.
- Learn with fun activities. Want to know how to find healthy options when shopping for food? Visit the Virtual Supermarket in session 8. Or play HEED Hazard, a question-and-answer game to test knowledge of nutrition concepts and healthy behaviors. These and many other activities help participants learn how to make good decisions and practice the strategies they discover in HEED Online.
- Connect with other participants. Using the bulletin boards on the Active Living Partners Web site, HEED Online participants can ask questions, post replies, and find support for their new healthy habits.
To learn more about offering Healthy Eating Every Day as a provider, click here. For information on enrolling in the course as a participant, go to the Take a Course page of the Active Living Partners Web site. Or you can contact Active Living Partners at 800-747-4457 ext 2522 or michellem@hkusa.com. Let Healthy Eating Every Day help you put health in every bite.
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