FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES RESOURCE PROFILE

 RESOURCE NAME

Healthy Eating With Diabetes Programs

DATE CREATED/REVISED

2000

BRIEF DESCRIPTION (include major objectives)

Healthy eating with diabetes programs can be used to educate the public and persons with diabetes about how healthy eating and physical activity can help prevent and manage diabetes.  Examples of fact sheets and curricula include:  Diabetes Awareness and Management;  An Ounce of Prevention –A Program to Help People Reduce Their Risk of Diabetes; Dining With Diabetes;  and others.

 

Major objectives:

 

Participants will increase their knowledge of diabetes-related health issues, and how healthy eating and physical activity can protect against diabetes and improve diabetes control and overall health.

 

Participants will increase their skills in choosing and preparing nutritious meals and snacks, in balancing the food they eat with physical activity, in safe food handling, and in food resource management.

 

Participants will improve their dietary quality by increasing their variety of foods and by eating the number of servings from the food groups recommended in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and as appropriate for the diabetic diet. Visit the web at: http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/humannutrition/diabetespub.htm

LONG-TERM INTENDED OUTCOMES

Healthy Eating and Physical Activity

 

TIME COMMITMENT

 Fewer than 5 hours per work

 DURATION

More than 1 month but less than 6 months

DIFFICULTY

 Introductory

READING LEVEL

High school

AUDIENCE

Adults in general

Caregivers

Child care providers

College students

Low-income

Paraprofessionals

Peer educators

Retirees

SUBJECT

Budgeting

Caregiving

Food handling practices

Food management

Food safety

Goal setting

Disease management

Normal nutrition

Health promotion

Nutrition and exercise

 

 

COMPONENTS

AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION

Brochure

Bulletin

Community event

Face-to-face

Notebooks

Evaluation tools

Peer interaction

Group meetings

Handouts

Leader’s guide

Home visits

Learn on their own

Media releases

Posters

Mass media

 

Recipes

Resource lists

 

 

Slide set

Teaching visuals

 

 

Video

Website

 

 

SKILL EMPHASIS

LEADER TRAINING REQUIRED?

SPECIALIST SUPPORT

Consultation with agent

Single county visits

Multi-county visits

Area meetings

Media participation

Leader training

Public meeting in county

Knowledge

Attitudes/values

Behavior change

Preferable

LEADER TRAINING LEVEL

 FREQUENCY OF LEADER TRAINING

Introductory

Upon request

 

PROGRAM RESOURCES LIST

Diabetes Awareness and Management lesson is available in Spanish.  An Ounce of Prevention materials were developed for general audiences as well as for African American, Native American, English-speaking Latino, and Spanish-speaking Latino audiences.  Recipes with  diabetic exchanges and carbohydrate choices are available in Spanish.

CONTACT PERSON/ADDRESS/PHONE

Mary Meck Higgins, Ph.D., R.D., L.D., CDE

Department of Human Nutrition

202 Justin Hall

Manhattan, KS  66506-1407

Phone:  785-532-1671

FAX:  785-532-1678

E-Mail:  mhiggins@ksu.edu

ORDER FROM

Shelly Burklund

Department of Human Nutrition

207 Justin Hall

Manhattan, KS  66506-1407

Phone:  785-532-1670

FAX:  785-532-1678

E-mail: sburklun@ksu.edu