Our most popular healthy eating and physical activity resources
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Title: A day's worth of fat
Description: Offering a glimpse of the daily amount of fat a typical person is capable of devouring, this display presents an unsettling visual: clumps of jellied fat float on the surface of simulated blood inside a heart-shaped bottle. Great for raising awareness about the dangers of consuming a high fat diet, including an increased risk of heart disease and cancer. Size = 9 x 11 x 6 cm |
Weigh Your Options Alcohol Drinks Display
Description: Weighted bags with images of popular drinks let participants feel the effects of extra calories. Weights ranging from 1 to 5 lbs reflect weight gained as a result of daily consumption of each beverage for a month. Comes with information tent card. |
What's in your drink?
Three colourful drinks education posters ideal for health care settings, higher education and public spaces. The "What's in your Drink?" poster collection shows the calories, sugar, caffeine and alcohol content of some of the UK's most popular beverages. The posters include information on the NHS's recommended intake for calories, sugar and caffeine consumption. |
Title: How does your fat stack up?
Description: This educational display compares 24 high-fat and low-fat food options using realistic pats of butter to represent the teaspoons (and grams) of fat in each item. This fat content model is made of sturdy acrylic, this display is ideal for counter or wall. The display includes a descriptive booklet with information (that can be reproduced and used as handouts) about dietary guidelines, the different types of fats, consequences of excess fat intake, nutrition label facts, how to reduce fat in the diet and additional sources for nutrition information. The booklet also includes a 1-page teacher guide. |
Title: How does your salt stack up?
Description: This educational display compares 18 high-fat and low-salt food options showing the number teaspoons (and mg) of salt in each item. Made of sturdy acrylic, this display is ideal for counter or wall. The display includes a descriptive booklet with information (that can be reproduced and used as handouts) about dietary guidelines, consequences of eating too much salt, sources of sodium (including additives), nutrition label facts, how to eat less salt and additional sources for nutrition information. The booklet also includes a 1-page teacher guide. |
Title: Fizz to fat display
Description: Show viewers the surest way to pour on the pounds with this clever model. Mysteriously suspended in mid-air, a bottle dispenses "soda" into the glass below. But as the soda cascades out of the bottle and into the glass, it turns into thick, yellowish fat, symbolizing how extra calories we get from sugary beverages can turn into body fat. |
Heart disease model set
Description: Three exceptionally detailed heart models offer a jolting look at the damage that is frequently the result of unhealthy living. One model features a partially healed infarction another is plagued by congestive heart failure and a normal model shows viewers what a heart is really supposed to look like. Each model is approx. 10 cm x 6 cm x 6 cm. |
Title: Eatwell Guide Giant Display Board (featuring updated 2016 version of the Eatwell Guide)
Description: Gigantic and lightweight display board (120cm x 82cm) ideal for the classroom, school hall or canteen, showing the new updated version of the Eatwell Guide (replaces the earlier 'Eatwell Plate'. |
Title: Stomach size wise display
Description: This set of models illustrates that children aged 2-6 have smaller stomachs than adults have, which means that they require smaller meals with nutritious snacks in between. The adult stomach model has a capacity of 1500 ml, while a model representing the stomach of a 2- to 6-year-old has only a 500 ml capacity. Informative tent card is 11" x 8½". |