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TEAM NUTRITION
T
eam Nutrition proudly introduces an exciting,new nutrition education publication developedespecially or middle school and high schoolstudents:
 Nutrition Essentials
. This publication isbased on the recommendations o the 2005 DietaryGuidelines or Americans and MyPyramid.Nutrition Essentials will help you teach middle andhigh-school students how to make healthul, lielongeating and physical activity choices. Students will beintroduced to the “tools” available to them to helpthem make eating and physical activity choices. The
 Nutrition Essentials
toolkit contains a 42-page booklet with six sequential lesson plans, and ve ull-sizeposters:
 Food for a Day, How Much Do YOU Eat?, Move It!, MyPyramid, and READ IT before you EAT IT! 
. The
 How Much Do YOU Eat?
poster is a revision o theprevious
What Size Is Your Serving?
poster. It refectsthe shit rom servings to recommendedamounts o oodmade in the 2005Dietary Guidelines or Americans. The
 READ IT before you EAT IT! 
 poster was revisedto refect the newNutrition Facts label which refects
trans
 at in products.Each lesson plan isbased on a poster orother visual imagethat serves as the ocus or your class discussions andactivities. The lesson topics are :•Get the MyPyramid Amounts o Foods–or YOU•Choose the Foods YOU Need•Choose Foods or Their Nutrients•Estimate Amounts o Food•Put It All Together–Food or a Day•Move It! To Keep Your Health in Balance
 Volume 9, No. 
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•EmpoweringYouth•WhatisaWholeGrain?•TheLatestfromTeamNutrition•JointheTeam
Nutrition EssentialsTargetsSecondary School Students
 What’sInside
United StatesDepartment of Agriculture
FoodandNutritionService
CONNECTIONS
 Nutrition Essentials
also includes a CD,
 Nutrition Decision
, with interactive games that build skills usingthe Nutrition Facts panel on ood labels. Another CDcontains the text o the booklet as well as black/whiteand color reproducibles and mini-posters to aid yourclassroom eorts.
 Nutrition Essentials
was promotedto all Team Nutrition middle and high schools, andis now available to all middle and high schools uponrequest through Team Nutrition’s online order orm.It can also be downloaded in .pd orm rom the Web.Go to
teamnutrition.usda.gov
to see the materials and
order online
rom
 
 http://tn.ntis.gov/ 
.
 
TEAM NUTRITION
Empowering Youth withNutritionandPhysical Activity
 Y
ou, as a teacher or aterschool leader, havean opportunity to be a role model to youth, whether it is in a classroom, aterschoolprogram, or summer eeding site. Take advantage o this opportunity to make a dierence in their lives byadding the
 Empowering Youth with Nutrition and  Physical Activity
manual and modules to the resources you use regularly.
 Empowering Youth
is designedto be used with youth ages 11 to 18 and includesup-to-date nutrition and physical activity messagesbased on the 2005 Dietary Guidelines or Americans(DGAs) and MyPyramid. The inormation presentedhas the potential to empower youth to develop health-promoting habits that last a lietime.The
 Empowering Youth
manual includes inormationand act sheets on the risk actors or obesity, relatedchronic conditions, and other topics in a ormat thatis easy to present to youth. Interactive activities withhandouts illustrate nutrition and physical activityconcepts. The hands-on activities require minimalplanning and are designed to be un, educational, andeasily used within the classroom, aterschool program,or special events.
 
The manual contains strategiesor youth to develop and implement a nutrition- orphysical activity-related project within their schoolor community. Step-by-step guidance, worksheets,additional helpul tips, handouts, discussion prompters,and healthy recipes make the
 Empowering Youth
 manual an education tool teachers and aterschoolleaders will use. High schools, middle schools,and Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)aterschool sites can order the
 Empowering Youth
 manual rom the Team Nutrition online order orm.The manual can also be downloaded rom the TeamNutrition Web site at
teamnutrition.usda.gov
.Five online interactive training modules will helpleaders and youth groups bring the ideas in
 Empowering Youth
to lie. They present more in-depthinormation about the DGAs, MyPyramid, and theNutrition Facts Label, as well as on being a positive rolemodel. The modules also contain knowledge-checkreview questions and pause-and-refect scenarios thatget you thinking about ways to enhance your program.Links to additional supporting Team Nutritionmaterials and other resources are also provided. Themodules will be ound with the manual text on theTeam Nutrition Web site starting early in 2008. Copieso Empowering Youth can be ordered using the onlineorder orm on the Web site.
 
TEAM NUTRITION
 What is a Whole Grain?... A Closer Look at theHealthierUS  School Challenge
 Making it Happen
and
Changing the Scene
are twopopular Team Nutrition products designed to assistschools in developing their local wellness policies.Both are available ree o charge and can be orderedonline using the Team Nutrition on-line order orm at
 http://tn.ntis.gov.
or the word “whole” listed beore a grain, such as“whole wheat” or “whole corn” on the ingredient label.Other ingredients may not have the word “whole”but are still whole grains, such as graham four, wildrice, brown rice, cracked wheat, bulgur, crushed wheat, rolled oats, and oatmeal.Primary ingredients that indicate aood is NOT a whole-grain productinclude: white four, wheat four,unbleached four, durum four,semolina, grits, corn grits,hominy grits, degerminatedcorn meal, rice four, arina, andcouscous.Other conusing terms that usuallyDO NOT prove a product is wholegrain include multi-grain, stone-ground,100% wheat, cracked wheat, 7-grain, 9-grain,and bran. When you see one o these terms, examinethe ingredient statement careully to determine i theood really is whole grain.Remember, the Dietary Guidelines and MyPyramid tell you to “Make hal o your grains whole.”
T
he
HealthierUS School Challenge 
,initiatedbyTeamNutritioninthefallof2004,recognizesnutritionexcellenceinelementaryschoolsacrosstheNation.
 What does it take to receive a
 HealthierUS School Challenge
award? Elementary schools applyby submitting descriptions o theirhealthy menu planning practices, a lacarte and school vended oerings,and their physical activity andnutrition education programs.Sometimes schools must workto meet the whole-grain criteriain the Challenge. For a Goldaward, schools must serve a whole-grain product every day.However, it may be tricky to tell i a product is really whole grain. I a whole grain is the rst ingredient in theingredient statement, this means that the grainis the primary ingredient, by weight. This is a greatindication that the product is providing a signicantamount o the whole grain.To determine i a ood is a whole-grain product, look
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