Useful resources
Alpro's science and nutrition team have produced a variety of nutrition resources, available for you to use directly with clients, or simply to inform your own practice. Towards the bottom of this page, we've also highlighted a variety of other useful resources available from well known organisations to assist your practice.
If you would like to order any of the Alpro® resources please complete out contact form by clicking here, alternatively you can order by e-mailing us at science@alpro.be, or call our freephone helpline on 0800 0188180.
Saturated fat comparison poster. Alpro soya has produced a handy visual saturated fat comparison poster in A3 size, for health profesiionals to use with their patients. With the help of colourful photos, patients can learn six delicious and practical everyday food swaps to help reduce their saturated fat intake where making easy changes to traditional recipes such as lasagne cuts down on more than half its traditional saturated fat content. Order your free copy of this useful recource now by calling the Alpro customer care line
Discover the World of Soy - Impact on health. This comprehensive book provides superb commentry from independent medical and nutrition experts concerning the health benefits of soya foods.
NEW DVD RESOURCE: Alpro's Healthy Eating for a Healthy Heart Store Tour DVD is our latest resource to be offered exclusively to health care professionals. The DVD shows a dietitian guiding the audience around the supermarket shelves and offers advice on making healthier food choices suitable for patient's wanting to improve their heart health. The DVD could be shown in a group education session such as a cardiac rehabilitation programme, and group discussion encouraged afterwards. Guidance notes and suggested group activities are included with this resource.
Alpro® Menopause leaflets for health professionals and patients: These leaflets, written by Nigel Denby, freelance dietitian and dietitian at the Hammersmith Hospital in London provide health professionals with up-to-date information regarding diet and lifestyle advice to assist patients during the menopause. Alpro® have produced one leaflet specifically for health professionals and another version which may be given to patient.
Alpro® Healthy Eating for a Healthy Heart leaflet: The Alpro® Science and Nutrition Team have developed this new resource for use with patients interested in improving the health of their heart through simple dietary and lifestlye changes. The information provided in the leaflet covers practical tips to help improve cholesterol levels as well as healthy recipe ideas.
Alpro® Healthy Eating for a Healthy Body Shape leaflet: Another useful resource developed by the Science and Nutrition Team at Alpro®, this leaflet covers practical advice to help get patients started with achieving a healthy bodyshape. It includes tips to help increase physical activity levels in addition to sensible suggestions to help with menu planning and making healthy food choices.
Other current resources and useful info from elsewhere in the nutrition world....
This Diabetes Week 2010 (13th – 20th June) makes use of the Diabetes UK resources to educate patients about diabetes and its management...
Diabetes UK has a wide range of resources available to help healthcare professionals educate their patients about diabetes and its management.
Clear, accessible information is available on all aspects of living with diabetes including:
- food and activity
- weight management
- diabetic complications
Key booklets include:
- Understanding diabetes (code 8002)
- Weight creeping up on you? (code 7500)
- Eating well with Type 1 diabetes (code 9827)
- Eating well with Type 2 diabetes (code 9831)
- Diabetes care in hospital (code 9859)
All resources can be ordered online www.diabetes.org.uk/onlineshop or call 0800 585 088 quoting the relevant code. Many of our key information booklets can also be downloaded. Selected information is available in different formats and languages.
Ten Top Tips for a Healthy Weight with specially designed FREE resources from Cancer Research UK
Ten Top Tips for a healthy weight is a programme developed by Cancer Research UK in partnership with Weight Concern. The tips have been designed to fit into daily life and are all based on scientific evidence.
The Ten Top Tips programme aims to help people;
- take in fewer calories
- burn more energy through activity.
To order ‘Ten Top Tips’ leaflets and shopping cards visit:
National Obesity Forum
The NOF has a number of articles to assist healthcare professionals offer the best care to patients wishing to lose weight. There are weight management guidelines, the role of primary care and many more. These are available to download from the website www.nof.uk.com. In addition, they offer one day diploma courses for those working or wishing to work in obesity, which covers nutrition, defining and assessing obesity, the fat cell, metabolism, pharmacotherapy and surgery. Details available from the website as above.
UK charity the Blood Pressure Association (BPA) has a wide range of resources available to help health professionals in their treatment of high blood pressure, including leaflets, posters, and booklets.
All resources can be ordered online, please visit: www.bpassoc.org.uk/HealthProfessionals
or call 020 8772 4994.
Meal Wheel Portion Guide Supported by the National Obesity Forum
WCRF UK resources to support diet and lifestyle for cancer prevention
http://www.wcrf-uk.org/preventing_cancer/health_professionals/resources.php
Help your patients understand portion sizes with real life food replicas and other portion control resources
Portion control is essential for sustaining a balanced diet. Intimex provides health education materials and equipment that can be used by health professionals to teach patients how to keep their portions in check.
These resources can be used to help both children and adults and include:
- tangible portion sized models providing realistic visuals of typical serving sizes
- portion plates demonstrating how much we should eat
- portion control DVDs emphasising the importance of portion control, calorie awareness and typical food selection (particularly useful for those with more specific dietary requirements, such as diabetes).
For more information or to purchase these valuable tools visit http://www.intimex.org or contact Intimex at sales@intimex.org, tel 01202 813500 or fax 01202 813505.