Our most popular healthy eating and physical activity resources
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Title: Nintendo Wii Console (with Wii Sports Game) and Wii Fit with Balance Board
Description: The original fitness game from 2008, Wii Fit introduced the world to the Wii Balance Board, motivating players to get up and get moving towards a healthier lifestyle. |
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Exercise mats x16
16 x purple foam exercise mats perfect for group exercise activities. |
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Activity in age- exercise equipment
Description- Box of exercise equipment for use in group activities Set of therabands; set of 12 bean bags; exercise parachute; 12 x soft exercise balls |
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Title: 5lb and 1lb ‘BioLike’ fat chunk model
Description: feels like actual fat and realistically shows what fat looks like inside the body |
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Title: Oral Health Education Sugar Kit
Description: A complete kit with everything you need (except the sugar) to show how much sugar is in many of the items we eat and drink, including biscuits, baked beans and cola. Includes: 10 x 100ml clear measuring cylinders, measuring spoons, sugar content labels, lesson plan/instruction sheet and sugar content list. Select products from the list and spoon the correct amount of sugar into the test tubes. Please note: sugar is not included |
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Title: 'A quick cup of empty calories'
Description: A fun way to discover the empty calories in coffee shop beverages and learn to choose healthier options |
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Title: 'Rethink your drink' poster
Description: Laminated poster 18” x 24” featuring 10 popular soft beverages showing how many teaspoons of sugar are contained in each drink |
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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. |
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Weigh your options display
Description: This fun display demonstrates how consuming extra calories can quickly result in weight gain. Comes with five weighted models to represent lbs gained in just 1 month of extra calories daily. Comes with information tent card and health eating out booklet. |
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Title: Rolls of Fat
Description: These models have the look, feel, weight, and approximate volume of fat. Viewers can wrap these rolls around their waistlines for a demonstration of how fat accumulates. |
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Title: 'Fat Finders' display
Description: features 12 of the many common foods that contain significant amounts of fat. |
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Title: 1lb Mass of Muscle
Description: This realistic, weighted soft model duplicates the look, texture, and density of 5 lb (2.3 kg) of muscle. Can be used with Rolls of Fat to highlight the differences between muscle and fat. |
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Title: 'Fat Chance - a closer look at fast food'
Description: combines ten food models with ten corresponding test tubes that provide a graphic representation of the saturated and unsaturated fat content of each food |
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Title: Acid attack poster
Description: Includes A3 poster; A4 brush your teeth poster; smile please booklet; 2 x small dental hygiene cards |
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Title: Overeating and overweight chart
Description: Vivid illustrations of damaged body organs combined with descriptive text send a clear message: Overeating and overweight are serious health issues. Laminated. 24" x 36". |
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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. |
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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. |
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Title: How does your sugar stack up?
Description: This educational display compares 18 high-fat and low-sugar food options showing the teaspoons (and grams) of sugar in each item. Made of sturdy acrylic, this display is ideal for counter or wall. The sugar display includes a descriptive booklet with information (that can be reproduced and used as handouts) about dietary guidelines, consequences of eating too much sugar, sources of added sugar, nutrition label facts, how to cut back on sugar and additional sources for nutrition information. Booklet also includes a 1-page teachers guide. |
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Title: Sugar in Snacks Display
Description: Interactive display showing the actual amount of sugar in popular everyday snacks including Snickers, kit kat, smarties, brunch bar, skittles, haribo, chocolate buttons and twix. Can be borrowed with or without a display board. |
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Title: Our wonderful body: Eat well, grow well
Format: DVD Description: Food. Food. Food. “What is it and why do humans need it?” wonders space explorer Zork. As he searches for answers, Zork helps young viewers identify the six kinds of nutrients needed for health and understand why the body needs each kind of nutrient. Children also learn the relationship between good health and water, proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals. The Food Guide Pyramid is also reviewed so that youngsters can better decide what foods to eat and how much to eat from each food group. (2nd Ed.) Part of the fully animated series, “Our Wonderful Body”, featuring Zork, a space creature with a very inquisitive mind and a talent for getting into humorous situations. Fascinated by human beings, Zork wants to know how people breathe, move and grow. He wants to understand how their hearts work and how they digest their food. Often, his inquisitive nature leads him to wrong conclusions and comical misunderstandings, all of which captivate young audiences and make learning about the human body fun. |
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Title: Healthy Lunchbox Display
Description: An ideal resource for promoting healthy eating and discussing the benefits of a balanced diet. Fold out fabric display complete with a fabric place setting, together with 6 embroidered food compartments and 25 different printed foods for sorting and selecting the items for a balanced lunch |
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Title: Artie beat's healthy cookbook
Description: The recipes in this cookbook are based on prize winning entries from a BHF competition that asked children to send in their favourite heart healthy recipe ideas to Artie Beat. This cookbook has something for everyone, including tasty and healthy soups, snacks, sandwiches, main courses and even super desserts and drinks. |
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Title: Health and fitness catch-clever ball
Description: Inflatable ball designed to be used with older children, young people and adults. Ball is covered with questions about physical activity and exercise. Ball can be used as an ice-breaker or for activities in a wide range of group settings. |
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Title: Join the activaters
Description: Teacher's information booklet and interactive CD- Rom promoting enjoyable healthy eating and physical activity to primary school children. |
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Title: Grub - you can't live without it
Description: Multi-level food game based on the balance of good health. Suitable for 2-4 players aged 5+. Be the first to fill your plate with a well-balanced and varied diet |
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Title: Magnetic food fun multicultural set
Description: Magnetic multicultural food set designed to promote healthy eating to KS1 children. |
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Title: Fruit jigsaw puzzle
Description: 24 piece thick-cut jigsaw to promote healthy eating. Puzzle size: 40x60 cm |
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Title: Vegetable jigsaw puzzle
Description: 24 piece thick-cut jigsaw to promote healthy eating. Puzzle size: 40x60 cm |
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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. |
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Title: Clogged artery
Description: Made of BIOLIKE 2TM synthetic tissue the artery is soft and surprisingly realistic. Filled with pasty yellow gunk-simulated plaque buildup. This powerful model is guaranteed to shock hardcore junk food junkies without saying a single word. Size 3 cm x 8 cm. |
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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. |
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Title: 'Energy crisis' display - energy drinks
Description: "If you want to wake people up to the dangers of energy drink use, this potent display packs the punch of 12 cups of coffee. Modelled after five popular energy drinks and featuring clever satirical labels, these models give viewers a quick shot of reality: Energy drinks can cause weight gain, rapid heart rate, sleeplessness, and other serious health problems—especially when mixed with alcohol" |
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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'. |
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Title: The Plate game
Description: Game using large floor mat showing food groups in style of 'Balance of Good Health' plate and box of replica healthy and unhealthy food. Instructions included. Used in conjunction with box of replica food. |
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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". |
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Health for life Ages 4-7.
Health for life is divided into two books, one for ages 4-7 and the other for ages 8-11, which correspond broadly to Key stages 1 and 2 in the English and Welsh curriculum. In both books, material is presented to enable children to move through a broad- based healthy lifestyles program and then to consideration of three sensitive issues; Growing and changing (me and my relationships); Keeping safe & healthy eating; medicines and drugs |
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Health for life Ages 8-11
Health for life is divided into two books, one for ages 4-7 and the other for ages 8-11, which correspond broadly to Key stages 1 and 2 in the English and Welsh curriculum. In both books, material is presented to enable children to move through a broad- based healthy lifestyles program and then to consideration of three sensitive issues; Growing and changing (me and my relationships); Keeping safe & healthy eating; medicines and drugs |
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Title: It's fun to eat fruit
Format: Book Description: Large picture book illustrating different types of fruit. Designed for Key Stage 1 pupils |
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Title: It's fun to eat vegetables
Format: Picture book Description: Large picture book illustrating types of vegetables. Designed for Key stage 1 pupils |
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Title: Grub
Format: Book Description: Large storybook, posters and teachers' booklet on healthy eating, produced by the NHS School Fruit and Vegetable Scheme. Activities to promote fruit and vegetables to Key Stage 1 pupils includes poster sheet and booklet in pocket at back of book |
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Title: Carbs and Cals Flashcards [Pack 1]
Description: 64 Double-sided flashcards to improve your carb and calorie counting skills. Each flashcard has an image of a common food on one side, and a breakdown on the back showing levels of carbohydrates, calories, protein, fats and fibre. |
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Title: Carbs and Cals Flashcards [Pack 2]
Description: 64 Double-sided flashcards to improve your carb and calorie counting skills. Each flashcard has an image of a common food on one side, and a breakdown on the back showing levels of carbohydrates, calories, protein, fats and fibre. |