Healthy Lifestyles Client Education Resources

Title Author Comments

4 Weeks of Healthy Menus

 

WRHA

 

Cook It Up Healthy - Make Your Tastebuds Tingle

 

Dietitians of Canada

SMOG:  Grade 8 
Fleish-Kincaid:  Grade 4 
SAM Ranking:  Superior 
Overall Impression:  Well written, Easy to follow and free of errors

Eating Well with Canadas Food Guide - First Nations, Inuit and Metis

Health Canada

SMOG:  Grade 10 
SAM Ranking:  Superior 
Website:  www.healthcanada.gc.ca/foodguide

Eating well with Canada's Food Guide

Health Canada 2007

SMOG = 11 SAM 68% SAM RANKING = Adequate 
Target Audience = General Population 

Fabulous Food Facts and Recipe BW Nutrition Month 2010

Dietitians of Canada

Fleish-kincaid:  Grade 8.1 
SAM Ranking:  Superior 
Overall Impression:  Visually appealing resource with simple, appropriate facts and recipe

Fast Foods and Eating Out

 

Heart and Stroke Foundation

SMOG:  Grade 10 
SAM Ranking:  Superior 
Overall Impression:  Well written resource, with great, simple tip/suggestions and examples to keep in mind when eating out. 
Ordering online    
Order #44817 English

Getting Active for Life - Your guide to an active lifestyle

Heart and Stroke Foundation

SMOG:  Grade 8 
SAM Ranking:  Superior 
Overall Impression:  Comprehensive, good graphics and learning stimulation, quite lengthy.

Eating Out

WRHA

SMOG:  Grade 7 
SAM Ranking:  Superior 
Overall Impression:  Basic tips, suggestions applicable to a large variety of restaurants.

Healthy Eating for Arthritis - 2 Resources

 

WRHA

SMOG:  Grade 9 
SAM Ranking:  Superior 
Overall Impression:  Provides a good overview of healthy eating with OA/RA, however difficult to communicate the effect weight gain has on joint pain without being "weight focused". 

Reproducible.

Healthy Snacks for Adults - HealthLinkBC

HealthLinkBC

SMOG:  Grade 11 
SAM:  Adequate 
Overall Impression:  Offers good tips for healthy snacking and explains what snacks are, and who needs snacks.  Provides suggestions for snacking at home as well as away from the home, which is useful for many adults.  Tables are clearly written. 

Weblink:  http://www.healthlinkbc.ca/healthfiles/pdf/hfile68i.pdf 

Reproducible

Healthy Snacks for Adults

WRHA

SMOG:  Grade 9 
SAM:  31/36 
Overall Impression:  Provides essential information on what snacks are, who needs snacks, good reasons to snack and how to choose healthy snacks.  Gives specific examples of a more healthful option to choose depending on what the person is craving.  Easy to read and visually appealing.

Healthy Snacks for Children - Toronto Public Health

 

Toronto Public Health

Reading Level:  N/A 
SAM Ranking:  Superior 
Overall Impression:  Easy to read, attention grabbing.  Provides many examples of different snack options for children.  Separates snacks into "every day", "sometimes" and "rarely" foods. 
Reproducible

How to Celebrate Food from Field to Table BW Nutrition Month 2010

 

Dietitians of Canada

Fleish-kincaid:  Grade 6.6 
SAM Ranking:  Superior 
Overall Impression:  Visually appealing resource with great behavioural examples for families on how to get in toug with your food from field to table.

Learning to Love My Body and My Self

 

UCLA Arthur Ashe Student Health & Wellness Centre

SMOG:  Grade 9 
SAM Ranking:  Adequate 
Overall Impression:  Good information, needs graphics and improved literacy

Portion Plate

Winnipeg in motion,

WRHA

Fleish-Kincaid:  Grade 4.8 
SAM Ranking:  Superior 
Overall Impression:  Excellent 
Website:  www.winnipeginmotion.ca

Snacks - 100 Calories or Less

 

US Department of Health and Human Services

Fleish-Kincaid:  Grade 6-7 
SAM Ranking:  Superior 
Overall Impression:  Easy to read, focus on portion sizes.  Gives specific examples of snacks from each food group.  Examples subdivided appropriate and resource is visually appealing. 

Surgery and Alcohol - What You Need to Know

WRHA

SMOG:  Grade 9 
SAM Ranking:  Superior 
Overall Impression:  Consider taking out section on Milk & Water and replace with Alcohol support group contact information. 

Reproducible.

The Plate Mate - a tasty guide to healthy eating

 

Diary Farmers of Manitoba

SMOG:  Grade 10 
SAM Ranking:  Superior 
Ordering info:  http://www.milk.mb.ca/nutrition/

To whet your appetite BW Nutrition Month 2010

Dietitians of Canada

Fleish-Kincaid:  Grade 7.9 
SAM Ranking:  Superior 
Overall Impression:  Visually appealing, focused resource though higher lieteracy with many words.

Too Stressed to Eat Well

City of Hamilton Social and Public Health Services Department

SMOG:  Grade 6 
SAM Ranking:  Superior 
Overall Impression:  Excellent content, messages are clear