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Our most popular healthy eating and physical activity resources

Contact us to book these resources for your event or training session.  Images reproduced with the permission of HealthEdco and Gasp.

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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: 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
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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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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.
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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: 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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Title: Artery sections with blockage
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 This display demonstrates 4 cross sections of artery with different levels of fat furred blockage. Mounted on a board. Size = 16 x 9 x 3 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: 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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